April 1st

Hi all, April already, and the day that we all trawl through the newspapers trying to decide what is real and what is an April fools joke. This didn't used to be too difficult but after eleven years of the new taxes party in charge the line between reality and farce is becoming increasingly blurred. So far today I have only looked at The Sun and their April fool joke really took some spotting!

The first thing that sprang to mind was two soldiers being killed on duty trying to bring democracy to Afghanistan while at the same time their unelected primeminister was refusing to allow the people a say on giving up more powers to Europe just in case he loses. But the soldiers were British and the unelected man in charge was Gordon Brown so it turned out to be true!

Then there was the hospital with blood all over the floors and dirty syringes lying around as the deadline approached for the end of the big hospital clean up and yet another government crack down on MRSA. But no, that turned out to be true as well!

Could it be new taxes minister Tessa Jowell joining a campaign to keep her local post office open after voting to have it closed in the house of commons? No, true again!

Or 28,000 bags lost at the new terminal five and passengers waiting a week to get their bags back? Sorry, that turned out to be true as well!

There were so many candidates for the April Fools joke it was beyond belief and It wasn't until I got to the sports pages that I found the actual joke! It said English football players were having to learn Italian so they can speak to the England manager. Or at least I think it's a joke. But given the way this country is going who knows?