Fun Online Polls: Fergie, Prince Andrew & Ralph Miliband

The responses to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows:

Fergie and Prince Andrew might get married again...

Not bothered either way - 56%
Ah bless, good luck to them - 21%
Clearly nobody else would have them - 16%
Which Fergie? Sir Alex Ferguson? - 4%
They are making a laughing stock of the Royal Family - 3%
Other, please specify - 0%

Fair do's. I was in the "Ah bless" camp myself.
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The Daily Mailiband saga continues. As a brighter mind than mine once said, it's the only newspaper which trolls its own readership.

Today they published this photo:
So, notwothstanding there is no such place as "Britain", that's the topic of this week's Fun Online Poll: are we capable of distinguishing between the people of a country as a whole and in the round, and a narrow self-appointed élite?

Of course, we swiftly go round the clock and realise that most professors at the LSE, whose kids went to Oxford when it was still "free" and end up as Foreign Secretary or Leader Of The Opposition without ever having had a proper job are part of the self-same, general-populace-loathing, self-appointed élite, but hey...

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Fun Online Polls: Help To Buy, Fergie, Prince Andrew

The result in last week's Fun Online Poll was as follows:

If housing were affordable, there would be neither need nor excuse for Help To Buy.

Agree - 89%
Disagree - 4%
Other, please specify - 7%

A good turnout, over a hundred took part and I'm in the clear majority on that one.
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For a bit of light relief, according to the always reliable and scrupulously accurate Daily Mail*, Fergie and Prince Andrew are going to get married again. Possibly. Hedging their bets nicely there.

Ah bless! I'm neither hard core monarchist nor romantic, but stories about people "finding each other again after xxx years apart" always give me a warm fuzzy glow.

What does the equally well informed readership think?

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* I'm not joking, while the Mail has a pretty clear and predictable editorial policy, when it comes to rehashing statistics or press releases, they usually include all the important facts and figures, albeit sometimes relegated to the very end of the article when they contradict the actual headline.

Life Copies Satire

From The Daily Mail:

As the Conservatives gear up for their conference in Manchester this week, Prime Minister David Cameron has given his party a boost by announcing a new tax break for married couples.

The £1,000 tax break is expected to be available to four million couples in the UK, and beats the £750 tax break promised in the Tories' General Election Manifesto of 2010, albeit is less than the £2,000 promised in 2007...Transferring £1,000 to a spouse will mean an extra £1,000 of their earnings is taken out of tax, which will work out at an extra £200-a-year.

From The Daily Mash:

THE prime minister's wife has halted divorce proceedings after realising she'd lose a sweet £200-a-year tax break...

She told friends: "I had the papers all filled out, and under grounds for divorce I'd written 'Husband is David fucking Cameron'. Clearly this was an absolutely watertight argument which no judge in the land could contest.

"But then I heard about this new tax break and whoa, £200 in ready cash in my back pocket just for staying hitched? And I get that every twelve months? Divorce over. Viscount Astor don't raise no fools."

From The Daily Mail:

The Duchess of York has fuelled speculation that she and Prince Andrew might remarry, admitting: 'He is still my handsome prince.'

The 53-year-old, whose 10-year marriage to the Prince, with whom she has two daughters, ended in divorce in 1996, refused to deny rumours that the pair might get back together.

Instead she said: "He'll always be my handsome prince. It's really lovely that we are still a family and the story has a happy ending all the time."