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muriel_volestrangler

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13. The UK govt spokesman at the end of that is great

Mon Oct 27, 2014, 03:20 PM

Oct 2014

This is how you deal with sensationalist media headlines (like "A GHOST ship laden with cannibal RATS is sailing for our shores, experts fear – as nobody knows where it is!" from The Sun)

David Cameron's official spokesman made it clear that it wasn't top of the British government's worry list. "That one hasn't scuttled across my desk," was his pun-tastic reply when asked if Cameron had been briefed about the ship.

Pressed over whether the navy would intervene he said: "Gosh, we're almost in a B-movie script development meeting here."

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/24/ghost-ship-cannibal-rats-crash-uk

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