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In a generous offer that marks the end of the post-Brexit breakdown of relations, the EU has offered to take off our hands all the productive young people in the UK who have any sort of initiative about them. Any person under 30, if they can find a job or a course in the EU, will be allowed visa-free travel to participating EU states for four years. The visa will then be converted into permanent residence if they prove useful enough to earn a moderate salary. We can have back the useless, lazy ones.


Older generations of UK citizens, many of whom voted for Brexit, will not be allowed to take up this offer. They will be left in a country with a shortage of young people and increasing healthcare costs. Rather cleverly then, the EU's long-term plan to centralise economic activity on the mainland will be achieved despite Brexit.


Pretending, with a straight face, that this is a benefit to the UK, the EU is proposing that we repay their generosity by educating their students at subsidised rates. EU students who struggle to get places on the mainland will be encouraged to move to this damp and windy island to take up university courses at UK taxpayers expense. This will serve to boost our vital university sector, which by itself makes the whole plan an excellent idea and likely to go through on the nod.



The University of Barking, formerly the Polytechnic of the Isle of Dogs, has defended its unusual offer to new students. To attract students through the clearing system, the University is offering a lifetime’s supply of prophylactics, in a range of styles, colours and flavours.


These are ‘inappropriate inducements’, according to critics.


Universities are engaged in a mad scramble to sign up students through the clearing system, due to better than expected A level grades. Universities are desperate to maximise student numbers, in order to maximise their funding, and have resorted to increasingly bizarre tactics to ensure success.


Some universities have offered cash prizes or rent-free accommodation. Others have offered welcome packs including fancy dress costumes, traffic cones and hang over cures. Posher universities are offering subsidised grouse shooting weekends, and one Oxbridge college is offering the chance to do a trolley dash through the college wine cellar.


The University of Barking defended its condom offer as cost-effective, as promoting student health and well-being, and as a sensible response to record levels of STIs on campus.


They neglected to mention the expulsion of a previous beneficiary of the scheme, who filled over a thousand condoms with helium and tied them to a statue of the founder. The statue had floated away and has not yet been retrieved. Anecdotal evidence suggests that it may have reached South Korea.


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