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Lib Dem Bones

LD supporters in Birmingham/Bemoan Tory plans tho affirming’em/But as opposition/Beats this coalition/At least there is no 2nd term in’ em. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/sep/20/huhne-hits-out-tory-slavering-tax-cuts

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Head to Head

Rital and Ritag from Khartoum/Emerged fully joined from the womb/A long operation/Achieved separation/Giving both girls a bit more headroom. http://www.facingtheworld.net/real-stories/rital–ritag

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Who Wants to Tax a Millionaire?

A President known as Barack’s/Got a radical programme for tax/So a millionaire/Has to pay his fair share/It beats giving welfare the axe. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/19/obama-deficit-plan-tax-hike

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DSK Screwed

A serial shagger from France/Was accused as we all looked askance/Now #DSK‘s sorry/But his no. 1 worry/Is he’s screwed his political chance. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14967295

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Lebedev’s Punchy Discussion

An ex-KGB billionaire/Hit a rival tycoon live on air/The fist-swinging Russian/Curtailed the discussion/To knock a co-guest off his chair. (tweeted 18/9/11) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/lebedev-strikes-russian-tycoon-over-tv-insults-2356874.html

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Out of the Woods

A young man whose name may be Ray/Emerged from the forest one day/Berlin’s polizei/Have no idea why/But his language is English, they say. (tweeted 18/9/11) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/8772016/German-forest-boy-is-telling-the-truth-say-police.html

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Euro Stew

Financiers of the EU/Have got in a bit of a stew/Though Timothy Geithner’s/Now put on the frighteners/They’ve still not a clue what to do. (tweeted 17/9/11) http://euobserver.com/19/113661

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Rogue Trader

A trader at bank #UBS/Got the firm in a terrible mess/His name is Kweku, it is/A dealer in equities/For a bank now worth 2 billion less. (tweeted 16/9/11) http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/09/19/uk-ubs-shares-idUKTRE78I13820110919

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Libyaration

Sarko and Dave acted nippily/To make the 1st visit to Tripoli/Crowds greeted Nicolas/Flying the tricolour/Hague followed on a bit drippily. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/15/cameron-sarkozy-libya-leader-tripoli

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Not in Nottingham

A PhD student at Nottingham/Sued the police 4 allotting’im/A role in Al- Qaeda/As this manual-reader/Was studying bombings, not plotting’em. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/09/15/student-rizwaan-sabir-awarded-payout-of-20k-after-terror-arrest-115875-23421601/

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