For many years, the British government maintained a culture of secrecy. They were aided by a tame press often unwilling to embarrass the state by exposing major scandals.

As a result, British politicians had plenty of room to cook up crazy conspiracies. Although many of them went under the radar for years, these 10 finally got exposed.

Poster Comment:

They've been doing a lot on Britain lately. Another one was 10 Bizarre English Common Law Cases That Are Totally Significant -- don't remember if I read it.

Times must be hard for Listverse -- they used to serve up 3 new pages a day (each of which pays the contributor $100), were down to two last week and now one!?!? Looks like they're discussing this in the comments above, and -- Holy Christmas - - have put up a banner to checkmate truthists ("Please keep the comments family- friendly. Abuse will be deleted. Be nice to each other").