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This England: The butt of the joke

This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s Richard II, refers to the whole of Britain – has run in the NS since 1934.  

By New Statesman

A Tory MP who urged voters not to be “litter tossers” has been fined £100 – for dropping a ciggy butt. Richard Holden was accused of hypocrisy after he was caught throwing the fag on the ground. Just last year on a rubbish-picking drive, he asked: “What sort of yob just tosses it out of the window?”
Daily Mirror (Amanda Welles)

 

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