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Its long but stick with it
HOW IT WORKS AND SHOULD WORK IN A FAIR WORLD
The squirrel works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building
and improving 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 squirrel 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 squirrel works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building
and improving his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks he's a fool and laughs and plays the summer away;
Come winter, the squirrel is warm and well fed.
A social worker finds the shivering grasshopper, calls a press
conference and demands to know why the squirrel should be allowed to be
warm and well fed while others less fortunate, like the grasshopper, are
cold and starving.
The BBC shows up to provide live coverage of the shivering grasshopper
with cuts to a video of the squirrel in his comfortable warm home with a
table laden with food.
The British press inform people that they should be ashamed that in a
country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer while
others have plenty.
The Labour Party, Greenpeace, Animal Rights and the Grasshopper Council
of GB demonstrate in front of the squirrel's house. The BBC,
interrupting a cultural festival special from Notting Hill with breaking
news, broadcasts a multi cultural choir singing "We Shall Overcome".
Ken Livingstone rants in an interview with Trevor McDonald that the
squirrel has got rich off the backs of grasshoppers and calls for an
immediate tax hike on the squirrel to make him pay his "fair share" and
increases the charge for squirrels to enter inner London.
In response to pressure from the media, the Government drafts the
Economic Equity and Grasshopper Anti-Discrimination Act, retroactive to
the beginning of the summer.
The squirrel's taxes are reassessed. He is taken to court and fined for
failing to hire grasshoppers as builders for the work he was doing on
his home and an additional fine for contempt when he told the court the
grasshopper did not want to work.
The grasshopper is provided with a council house, financial aid to
furnish it and an account with a local taxi firm to ensure he can be
socially mobile. The squirrel's food is seized and re-distributed to the
more needy members of society, in this case the grasshopper.
Without enough money to buy more food, to pay the fine and his newly
imposed retroactive taxes, the squirrel has to downsize and start
building a new home.
The local authority takes over his old home and utilises it as a
temporary home for asylum seeking cats who had hijacked a plane to get
to Britain as they had to share their country of origin with mice. On
arrival they have tried to blow up the airport because of Britain's
apparent love of dogs.
The cats had been arrested for the international offence of hijacking
and attempted bombing but were immediately released because the police
fed them pilchards instead of salmon whilst in custody.
Initial moves to then return them to their own country were abandoned
because it was feared they would face death by the mice. The cats
devise and start a scam to obtain money from people's credit cards.
A Panorama special shows the grasshopper finishing up the last of the
squirrel's food, though Spring is still months away, while the council
house he is in crumbles around him because he hasn't bothered to
maintain the house. He is shown to be taking drugs and inadequate
government funding is blamed for the grasshopper' s drug 'illness'.
The cats seek recompense in the British courts for their treatment since
arrival in the UK.
The grasshopper gets arrested for stabbing an old dog during a burglary
to get money for his drugs habit. He is imprisoned but released
immediately because he has been in custody for a few weeks. He is
placed in the care of the Probation Service to monitor and supervise
him. Within a few weeks he has killed a guinea pig in a botched robbery.
A commission of enquiry that will eventually cost £10,000,000 and state
the obvious, is set up. Additional money is put into funding a drug
rehabilitation scheme for grasshoppers, and legal aid for lawyers
representing asylum seekers is increased.
The asylum seeking cats are praised by the government for enriching
Britain's multicultural diversity and dogs are criticised by the
government for failing to befriend the cats.
The grasshopper dies of a drug overdose. The usual sections of the
press blame it on the obvious failure of government to address the root
causes of despair arising from social inequity and his traumatic
experience of prison. They call for the resignation of a minister.
The cats are paid a million pounds each because their rights were
infringed when the government failed to inform them there were mice in
the United Kingdom.
The squirrel, the dogs and the victims of the hijacking, the bombing,
the burglaries and robberies have to pay an additional percentage on
their credit cards to cover the losses, their taxes are increased to pay
for law and order and they are told that they will have to work beyond
65 because of a shortfall in government funds.
THE END
Its long but stick with it
HOW IT WORKS AND SHOULD WORK IN A FAIR WORLD
The squirrel works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building
and improving 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 squirrel 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 squirrel works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building
and improving his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks he's a fool and laughs and plays the summer away;
Come winter, the squirrel is warm and well fed.
A social worker finds the shivering grasshopper, calls a press
conference and demands to know why the squirrel should be allowed to be
warm and well fed while others less fortunate, like the grasshopper, are
cold and starving.
The BBC shows up to provide live coverage of the shivering grasshopper
with cuts to a video of the squirrel in his comfortable warm home with a
table laden with food.
The British press inform people that they should be ashamed that in a
country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer while
others have plenty.
The Labour Party, Greenpeace, Animal Rights and the Grasshopper Council
of GB demonstrate in front of the squirrel's house. The BBC,
interrupting a cultural festival special from Notting Hill with breaking
news, broadcasts a multi cultural choir singing "We Shall Overcome".
Ken Livingstone rants in an interview with Trevor McDonald that the
squirrel has got rich off the backs of grasshoppers and calls for an
immediate tax hike on the squirrel to make him pay his "fair share" and
increases the charge for squirrels to enter inner London.
In response to pressure from the media, the Government drafts the
Economic Equity and Grasshopper Anti-Discrimination Act, retroactive to
the beginning of the summer.
The squirrel's taxes are reassessed. He is taken to court and fined for
failing to hire grasshoppers as builders for the work he was doing on
his home and an additional fine for contempt when he told the court the
grasshopper did not want to work.
The grasshopper is provided with a council house, financial aid to
furnish it and an account with a local taxi firm to ensure he can be
socially mobile. The squirrel's food is seized and re-distributed to the
more needy members of society, in this case the grasshopper.
Without enough money to buy more food, to pay the fine and his newly
imposed retroactive taxes, the squirrel has to downsize and start
building a new home.
The local authority takes over his old home and utilises it as a
temporary home for asylum seeking cats who had hijacked a plane to get
to Britain as they had to share their country of origin with mice. On
arrival they have tried to blow up the airport because of Britain's
apparent love of dogs.
The cats had been arrested for the international offence of hijacking
and attempted bombing but were immediately released because the police
fed them pilchards instead of salmon whilst in custody.
Initial moves to then return them to their own country were abandoned
because it was feared they would face death by the mice. The cats
devise and start a scam to obtain money from people's credit cards.
A Panorama special shows the grasshopper finishing up the last of the
squirrel's food, though Spring is still months away, while the council
house he is in crumbles around him because he hasn't bothered to
maintain the house. He is shown to be taking drugs and inadequate
government funding is blamed for the grasshopper' s drug 'illness'.
The cats seek recompense in the British courts for their treatment since
arrival in the UK.
The grasshopper gets arrested for stabbing an old dog during a burglary
to get money for his drugs habit. He is imprisoned but released
immediately because he has been in custody for a few weeks. He is
placed in the care of the Probation Service to monitor and supervise
him. Within a few weeks he has killed a guinea pig in a botched robbery.
A commission of enquiry that will eventually cost £10,000,000 and state
the obvious, is set up. Additional money is put into funding a drug
rehabilitation scheme for grasshoppers, and legal aid for lawyers
representing asylum seekers is increased.
The asylum seeking cats are praised by the government for enriching
Britain's multicultural diversity and dogs are criticised by the
government for failing to befriend the cats.
The grasshopper dies of a drug overdose. The usual sections of the
press blame it on the obvious failure of government to address the root
causes of despair arising from social inequity and his traumatic
experience of prison. They call for the resignation of a minister.
The cats are paid a million pounds each because their rights were
infringed when the government failed to inform them there were mice in
the United Kingdom.
The squirrel, the dogs and the victims of the hijacking, the bombing,
the burglaries and robberies have to pay an additional percentage on
their credit cards to cover the losses, their taxes are increased to pay
for law and order and they are told that they will have to work beyond
65 because of a shortfall in government funds.
THE END
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