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This week on #BritishRationals...

#Syria hots up

Shrines torn down

Athletes are in

Politicians are out

#Trump #HitherGreen #CommonwealthGames #RoyalWedding #LFC #MUFC #ChampionsLeague

Story Headline: Syria chemical attack: US and Russia fail to reach UN agreement as tensions rise

Story Source: The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/201...

Syrian President Bashar Assad allegedly launched a chemical attack on the rebel-held Damascus suburb of Douma, leading to international condemnation with America, France and the UK discussing a co-ordinated response. Israel subsequently bombed an airbase Syria while the US and Russia both wielded vetoes at the UN over the other’s plans to investigate the atrocity. The World Health Organisation said that 500 Douma patients showed signs of a chemical attack.

Story Headline: Hither Green burglar flowers ‘an insult’

Story Source: BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-...

Floral tributes to burglar Henry Vincent, who was stabbed to death by Richard Osborn-Brooks when robbing the 78-year-old’s house in Hither Green, have been labelled an insult and repeatedly torn down by outraged members of the public.

Story Headline: Commonwealth Games: Eight Cameroon athletes ‘desert’ team

Story Source: BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-austr...

Eight athletes from Cameroon’s Commonwealth Games team have gone missing from their accommodation in Australia, officials confirmed.

Story Headline: Theresa May and other politicians not invited to Royal Wedding

Story Source: Sky News

https://news.sky.com/story/theresa-ma...

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will not invite politicians to their wedding with only guests who have a direct relationship to either of the couple attending.

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#Corbyn’s crusade

Our #passports are going abroad

Businesses need to mind

the #paygap

Knives out.

This week, we take a look at Corbyn’s anti-Semitism pledge, British passports being outsourced to a Franco-Dutch firm, the gender pay gap and the rise in knife crime in London.

Happy Easter and welcome to the #BritishRationals #AprilFools special in association with Southend News Network!

You know the satisfaction of tricking someone on #AprilFoolsDay? Well, imagine the satisfaction of tricking an entire chapter of neo-facists!

Southend News Network did it... twice!

#SNN

#EDL

#HotCrossBuns

#Milo

#SmearTest

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#Brexits expensive

#Pornstars are even more expensive

#Plastics even more expensive than that

#Aussies are cheats

#cricket

#cheating

#brexit

#overspend

#stormydaniels

Story Headline: Brexit campaign was ‘totally illegal’ claims whistleblower.

Story Source: https://www.channel4.com/news/brexit-campaign-was-totally-illegal-claims-whistleblower

Vote Leave broke the law during the EU referendum by exceeding legal spending limits, a Brexit activist has claimed. Shahmir Sanni told Channel 4 News that the official Brexit campaign used a different group, BeLeave, to overspend. Vote Leave chief Dominic Cummings has already denied the claim and said he checked with the Electoral Commission before donating money to the group. Mr Sanni has also criticised Vote Leave manager Stephen Parkinson, his ex-boyfriend, for outing him as gay.

Remain is also accused of overspending, but on a much shakier ground.

The Electoral Commission rules are clear: if one campaign “coordinates [its] activity with another campaigner”, then they are “highly likely to be working together”. This definition of “working together” is important, because the Electoral Commission also says: “the lead campaign group must count all of the spending of all the campaigners it works together with towards its own limit”. Guess what… they didn’t.

https://order-order.com/2017/12/28/remain-campaign-flouted-rules-to-spend-double-legal-limit/

Story Headline: Stormy Daniels seeks Trump testimony on her sex claims

Story Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43571519

Adult-film star Stormy Daniels has filed a court motion for US President Donald Trump to testify about her claim that they had sex. Her lawyer wants sworn testimony from Mr Trump about a "hush" agreement the actress says she signed. The attorney, Michael Avenatti, is also seeking a legal interview with the president's lawyer. Ms Daniels alleges she had unprotected sex with Mr Trump in 2006 a year after he married Melania Trump. He denies it.

Mr Avenatti's motion, filed in a court in the Central District of California early on Wednesday, ramps up the legal duel between the porn star and the president. Ms Daniels says she signed an agreement to keep quiet about her claims in exchange for $130,000 (£91,000) of "hush" money in October 2016, days before the presidential election. In the court documents, Mr Avenatti said he wanted to take a deposition from Mr Trump and his lawyer, Michael Cohen, for no more than two hours each.

Top ten claims https://news.sky.com/story/the-top-10-stormy-daniels-claims-about-her-affair-with-donald-trump-11304774

She recalled that Donald Trump is alleged to have said: "You are smart, just like my daughter."

Story Headline: Drinks bottle and can deposit return scheme proposed.

The government is to propose a scheme where shoppers in England will pay a deposit on single-use glass, plastic bottles, steel and aluminium cans which they’ll get back if they return them in a bid to boost recycling and cut waste.

Story Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43563164

Story Headline: Smith and Warner banned for a year by Cricket Australia for ball tampering.

Australian cricket captain Steve Smith and vice-captain David Warner have been banned from international and domestic cricket by Cricket Australia after admitting ball-tampering during the third test defeat against South Africa in Cape Town. Opener Cameron Bancroft was spotted trying to alter the state of the ball with sandpaper which he then hid down his pants to deceive the umpires. Warner, who had previously had an altercation with South African wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock in the second test, apparently came up with the plan during the lunch break and Smith was there and did not object. He was also filmed drinking champagne afterwards and will not be considered for a leadership position in the future. Bancroft has been banned for nine months.

Story Source: https://www.theguard

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Brexit fish dump

Boffins steal your data

High school bomb threat

Putin’s popular

A drunken accid-Ant

Headline: Nigel Farage dumps dead fish in Thames in protest over Brexit transition deal

Source: Sky News

UK and EU agreed a deal for a Brexit transition period lasting until December 2020 subjecting the UK to the same EU rules as now but without having any say in policy. The CFP (Common Fisheries Policy) in particular has angered some MPs with 13 Tories and one DUP MP threatening to vote the deal down and protesters lobbing fish into the Thames on Wednesday in protest. Michael Gove was eager to leave the CFP ASAP but had to back down, saying we should “keep our eye on the prize” of leaving the EU.

Farage was on the fishing committee and did nothing about it for years. Turned up to only one out of 42 EU fisheries commission meetings.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-transition-deal-fishing-rights-comwmons-vote-jacob-rees-mogg-theresa-may-a8266346.html

On Tuesday David Davis announced an agreement on the transitional phase covering Britain’s exit from the EU that will last until 2020. On Wednesday, angry staunch Brexiteers subsequently staged another flotilla stunt by throwing dead fish into the Thames in protest of the EU’s fishing policies.

Cambridge Analytica

Channel 4 and Observer investigation revealed the data company had unauthorised access to tens of millions of Facebook profiles (harvesting). Channel 4 also filmed CEO Alexander Nix and head of data Alex Tayler boasting about corrupting politicians on film and then blackmailing them as well as about how they ran Trump’s campaign and were behind the ‘crooked Hillary’ angle. They also use third parties to disseminate the information through unaffiliated ‘political action groups’. Whistle-blower Christopher Wylie also claimed a personality app (This is your digital life) Aleksandr Kogan developed to harvest Facebook info influenced the US election. Kogan claims he is now being made a scapegoat.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/20/cambridge-analytica-execs-boast-of-role-in-getting-trump-elected

Headline : No 10 'very concerned' over Facebook data breach by Cambridge Analytica

Source: theguardian.com

This week a Channel 4 and Observer joint investigation revealed that data firm Cambridge Analytica had harvested information from millions of Facebook accounts that they subsequently used to influence major political events, including Brexit and the US Presidential elections.

Headline : Disgruntled Minecraft player emails bomb threat to over 400 schools

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43457548

On Monday over 400 schools received a bomb threat, and many were evacuated. It turned out to be a hoax, orchestrated by a Minecraft player with a grudge against VeltPvP, a service used almost exclusively by 8-18 year olds.

This week, the great British public discuss the Russian spy crisis, Trump and Kim's surprise meeting, The Jamie Carragher Spitting Crisis, Dogs on a Plane, and Stephen Hawking.

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It’s the last one... #BritishRationals Review of the Year Part 4! Thanks for watching and we’ll see you all again in 2018.

October - December

#Vegas

#Nuneaton

#RyanAir

#Monarch

#Weinstein

#Cabinet

#Mugabe

#RoyalEngagement

#Fox

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Baby, it’s cold outside! So why not keep warm and have a laugh with Part 3 of the #BritishRationals Review of the Year 2017?

July- September

#PetrolBan

#PensionAgeRise

#DukeOfEdinburghResigns

#Uber

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Part 2 of the #BritishRationals review of the year 2017! There will be a new episode out every day this week.

April - June

#MOAB

#Macron

#TerrorAttacks

#WannaCry

#GeneralElection

#ParisAccords

#Trump

#DUP

#Grenfell

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Part 1 of the #BritishRationals review of the year! There will be a new episode out every day this week.

Part 1 of the #BritishRationals review of the year 2017!

January - March

#WomensMarch

#DoomsdayClock

#KimJongUn

#Oscars

#PoundCoin

#Article50

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