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Topic: Social comment
Posted By: IanG
Subject: Social comment
Date Posted: 18 Dec 2018 at 13:05
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 out in the cold.

-THE END-

THE 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 cuts to a video 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's allowed to suffer so 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"
Sadiq Khan rants in an interview with Trevor McDonald that the ant has gotten 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 failingto 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 inequity.

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-

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Posted By: blacklines
Date Posted: 18 Dec 2018 at 14:27
Bit of a bleak story Ian.

I got confused when the grasshoppers' council houses weren't well maintained though. And that they hadn't bought them up for a fraction of their true value to start their own real estate dynasties Wink.





Posted By: IanG
Date Posted: 18 Dec 2018 at 16:14
It's amazing what you find cleaning old hard drives,I used to get sent loads of those sort of things ,well those and the more graphic ones that wouldn't be allowed on here Wink


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Posted By: Roger Ramjet
Date Posted: 19 Dec 2018 at 23:28
The only thing to make me smile today!


Posted By: IanG
Date Posted: 20 Dec 2018 at 10:49
My work here is done Beer


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