The UK Wakes Up

In line with most of the popular Press, we start today with news that the UK population is waking up to news that their Council Tax will soon rise. Some Council Tax payers will say 'so what's new' but others will wake up to find they will shortly be paying Council Tax for the first time.




Unfortuneatly this is not news as such, it has been known for sometime -it is just that the Press have not been reporting the changes when they were announced, prefering stories of dog shite, chip pan fires and immigration to sell their measlie rags.

Community Overlord Sir David Pickles has been voracious in his defence of the new scheme "If people cannot be bothered to get better paid jobs such that they do not need to claim Council Tax Releif -that is not our fault. The ConDem Government has made it far easier to start-up new business in this Country, it is not our fault if people are too poor to do it."

He continued "The Conservatives have consulted widely on this scheme and with the support of our LibDem partners, we have managed to implement it. We must stress that in compensation for the new bills the unemployed and low paid workers will now face, the Government has taken on the cost of providing them breakfast -one horse bone for each family."

So there we have it, the Government has not only saved money and pushed the blame onto councils, they have also found a use for the bones from dead horses whose meat has already entered the food chain.

Bon appetit!