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Date: 04/03/17

Yesterday In British Values

(The latest in an interminable series)

"Housing Benefit for 18-21 Year-Olds Axed"

"We want to make sure that 18 to 21-year-olds do not slip straight into a life on benefits"

(By making sure that they can't get any benefits)

"Bereavement benefit cut 'to help people readjust to single-parent life'"

"Government changes mean that from 6 April, bereaved parents will only receive payments for 18 months. Previously the payment lasted until children were 16 years old."

(Which is, of course, a major disincentive to the orphans being shoved up chimneys or being sold into prostitution, like they were in the Good Old Days™ when Britannia ruled the waves)

"MPs take 13 minutes to double Royal family income and approve £360m Buckingham Palace refurbishment"

"The "Seventh Dedicated Legislation Committee" was only established to consider raising the so-called 'Sovereign Grant' from 15 per cent to 25 per cent of the Crown Estates income, in order to fund the estimated £360m upgrade to Buckingham Palace, and now it has done so, it will be disbanded."

(God Swive The Quoon! Rah, Rah!)

Y'know, chums? Things have come to a pretty pass when a military coup starts to look like a progressive option. But at least 'we' have taken back control, don'tcha know?