Faulty Law-Wheel to Blame for Bad Acts

It has emerged that a malfunctioning law-wheel could be responsible for as much as 90% of legislation enacted in the British Houses of Parliament over the past thirty years, sources revealed today.

The acts and bills, long regarded as a concerted attack on rightness, it now seems, may simply have been the by-product of the rogue apparatus, which was found spinning out of control by cleaning staff in a Westminster basement early this morning.

“This puts the lie to the many conspiracy theories that have also been doing the rounds,” Home Secretary Serendipity Tulip texted reporter mates. “Groups have always claimed that we had it in for the electorate, but now everyone can see that our hands are clean.”

The unhinged device is thought to have worked itself loose during the 1970s and begun enacting a series of outlandish measures, ranging from a ‘poll’ tax to the squandering of national utilities, from attacks on workers and migrants to the bizarre insult of identity cards.

“At the time, we assumed these bills were coming from our party bosses,” said MP for South Cave, the Right Hon. Spavin Lourdes. “So we had no choice but to pass them, for all their unpopularity and general Nazification. Sometimes we did hear maniacal laughter issuing from the cellars, but we all assumed that was just the Prime Ministers counting out their cash.”