Brit Foreign Office puts UK comics redundant

[davec]

News Item:

AP - Britain's Foreign Office issued a hasty apology Sunday to Pope Benedict XVI after publication of an internal memo in which officials joked he could open an abortion clinic, launch a range of condoms or sing a duet with Queen Elizabeth II during a four-day visit in September.

Hey, you lot do your jobs and let the comedians do theirs!!

[SepticTone]

LOL!!

Yeah dave, some drunk 20 year-old clerk in the Foreign Office accidentally circularised those suggestions to his mates for a laugh in an email which got uncensored & passed up via the F.O's sophisticated email filtering system to Reuters. Allegedly.

We don't actually have abortion clinics here, as terminations are freely available to any female over 13 with or without parental knowlege or permission in discreetly-hidden wards on the NHS, within the general hospital system, below 24 weeks. Condoms are also now freely available discreetly & free to over 13's to 18's via the NHS GP system, so anybody who actually lives here would presumably be aware of these two facts.

Singing a duet with the head of the Anglican Church is more problematical, as he's a tenor & she's a soprano, & they haven't rehearsed.

Blogs suggest a Tea Party scam initiated by the 'religious right ' fundamentalists in the US and/or DUP ministers from N.I. who think he's the AntiChrist, to discredit El Papa before his forthcoming visit to the UK.

I don't care either way, as it's still very funny, & Eddie Izzard's just had to rewrite his latest standup routine script..