CLASSIC VERSION The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool, and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The shivering grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies in the cold. THE END THE NEW POLITICALLY CORRECT BRITISH VERSION The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool, and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed, while others less fortunate, like him, are cold and starving. The BBC shows up to provide live coverage of the shivering grasshopper; with pictures of the ant in his comfortable warm home with a table laden with food. Britons are stunned that, in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so much while others have plenty. The Labour Party, Greenpeace and The Grasshopper Council of GB demonstrate in front of the ant's house. The BBC, interrupting a Jamaican cultural festival special from Notting Hill with breaking news, broadcasts them singing "We Shall Overcome" In an interview with Trevor McDonald, Ken Livingstone rants that the ant has become rich off the backs of grasshoppers and calls for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his "fair share". In response to polls, the Labour Government drafts the Economic Equity and Grasshopper Anti-Discrimination Act, retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant's taxes are reassessed and he is also fined for failing to hire grasshoppers as helpers. Without enough money to pay both the fine and his newly imposed retroactive taxes, the Government repossesses his home. The ant moves to Spain and starts a successful wine-exporting company. A Panorama special later shows the now fat grasshopper finishing up the last of the ant's food, though Spring is still months away, while the council house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he hasn't bothered to maintain it. Inadequate government funding is blamed, Trevor Phillips is appointed to head a commission of enquiry that will cost £10,000,000. The grasshopper is soon dead of a drug overdose. The Daily Mirror blames it on the obvious failure of Government to address the root causes of despair arising from social inequality. The abandoned house is taken over by a gang of immigrant spiders, praised by the government for enriching Britain's multicultural diversity, who promptly set up a marijuana plantation and terrorise the community. THE END
You're right though I resent paying all those taxes, only to see them sent up North. Most of which get spent in Iceland in Dewsbury
RE: You're right though Iceland is in Dewsbury? So Sigur Ross is a Dewsbury band then? No f*ckin wonder I can't mek art wot they're on abart.
Council tax in Surrey The government funding per tax payer is only 40% of the national average Brilliant double whammy - Surrey is full of workers paying tax into the government pot, more than the national average yet because we get reduced payments back from the government we have to pay more again in council tax. All the extra goes to areas where there are less people paying income tax so they pay less tax to the government and less to their council as well By some strange coincidence its Tory and Lib Dem councils which seem to lose on government funding and Labour ones which gain. If you are on a low income you are well stuffed in my part of the world
Don't worry EI, you're in good company. </p> They can't spell it right either the sloppy Icelendic bummers.</p> http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/</p>
