REST OF THE WORLD 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 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
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.

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 so
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 gotten 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 squirrels food is siezed 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 tried to blow up the airport because of Britains
apparent love of dogs.

The cats had been arrested for the international offence of hijacking
And attempt 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 peoples credit cards.

A Panorama special shows the grasshopper finishing up the last of the
squirrels'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. Inadequate government
funding is blamed for the grasshoppers drug 'illness'.

The cats seek recompense in the British courts for their treatment since
arrival in 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. Winquiry, 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 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.


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Jay , what a masterpiece ........ how on earth did you manage to type so many words in one go without any mistakes

As Andy says - took a while to read - but funny

As for grasshoppers - squash'em monty python style  
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Copy and paste my friend copy and paste  RRS TDV6 Gone but still around
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You've done it again

Jay have five *****  
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Yay just like the top man at McDonald's RRS TDV6 Gone but still around
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" WITH MORE EXTRAS THAN A HOLLYWOOD EPIC "

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good post Jay