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The Paddy McGuffin column

ROLL up, roll up get you slightly specious and totally misrepresented polices here. Two for a paundh! 

Plastic bag with your lies sir or madam? That’ll be five pence.

Yes that’s right — it’s that time of year again, when an unelected monarch pontificates to the rest of us in a vain attempt to justify their existence. No, not the Budget, although that’s not far off. I am of course referring to the Queen’s speech.

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