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It has been two years since I first decided to start my blog and record the experiences and opportunities that I would face as a student here at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. So here I am 230 posts later and to everyone that has joined me here, supported my endeavours, shared in my experiences and provided invaluable advice I just want to say thank you.

I just love this time of year as all the rehearsals are coming to fruition and the performance dates are just around the corner.
On the 17th April at 7:30 pm I will be taking part with my fellow students at the RCS in our chamber choir, conducted again this year by Frikki Walker at St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow.

The following day I am very excited that my family and friends will be traveling to Glasgow to see me take part in the Scottish…

(not satire – it’s the Tories!)

Controversial hardline Tory Minister for the Disabled Esther McVey is set to lose her seat at the General Election.

In McVey’s Wirral West constituency, Labour are on 42% in the latest polls with the Conservatives on 37%:

Labour ahead in Wirral West

It is McVey’s policies which have been responsible for forcing the disabled – as well as seriously sick people such as cancer patients – into extreme poverty and hunger:

UK today: 40% of cancer patients can’t afford to heat their home properly

A new low for the UK: disabled man starves to death

Dying of cancer? Work or starve: the end of the welfare state

Iain Duncan Smith’s portrait made from photos of people who died for being poor

Cameron’s Britain: 7-year old cancer patients on foodbank handouts

Bedroom tax exemptions? Not for injured soldiers, disabled children or adults with carers

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I’m normally more of a beer or whisky man, but…

(not satire – it’s the Tories!)

Tory Party chairman Grant Shapps thinks the recession we’ve been experiencing for the last 7 years is like ‘an amusement ride’.

He also suggests struggling families can survive the recession by investing in real estate, futures or bonds, eating ice cream and taking regular skiing holidays!

Obviously when people are actually struggling to feed their families, he wouldn’t dare say such an outrageous thing under his own name for fear it would affect his party’s electoral prospects.

So he didn’t.

He said it under his pseudonym, Michael Green, instead.

Michael Green refers to himself as ‘a successful online marketer’,  ‘marketing guru’ and states ‘his wealth is such that he actually flies his very own personal plane and also lives in a fabulous mansion’.

But Grant Shapps, the Tory Party co-chairman, has admitted Michael Green is the pseudonym he uses to separate his business activities (which

(satire?)

David Cameron has pledged a free vote in Parliament on punching people in the face who haven’t prepared dinner on time if the Conservatives win the General Election.

The Prime Minister’s pledge to allow a vote on the face punching ban if he has a clear majority after May 7, was last night hailed as the right move by campaigners.

Mr Cameron said he shares people’s frustration at the legislation outlawing the slapping of tardy food preparers in the kisser– which has now been in place for decades – and would like to see the ban repealed.

In a statement to the press, Mr Cameron said a free vote on the right to punch out the lights of anyone not having food ready on time was the right approach and Mr Cameron’s pledge – made in an article in the Countryside Alliance magazine – would mean there was a real possibility of the ban being overturned and…

(not satire – it’s the UKIP!)

On a visit to Stoke Mandeville today, UKIP leader Nigel Farage made a ‘joke’:

“Jimmy Savile and now HS2, Stoke Mandeville has had it all!”

Hundreds of people have reported being sexually abused by Savile at Stoke Mandeville hospital.

As an example, one woman described being raped by Savile on about 10 separate occasions at the hospital when she was aged eight or nine years old.

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Q: What not to do if you’re a politician on a visit to Stoke Mandeville?

A: Make a Jimmy Savile joke.

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