The Ant and The Grasshopper Fable

[wantser]

> The Ant & The Grasshopper Fable:-
>
> 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 (sad but true):
>
> 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.
>
> So far, so good, eh?
>
>
> 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 in Hampstead with a
> table laden with food.
>
> The British are stunned that in a country of such
> wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer
> so while others have plenty.
>
> The Liberal Party, the Respect Party, the
> Transvestites With Starving Babies Party, the Single
> Lesbian One Eyed Mothers Party and the Coalition
> Against Poverty demonstrate in front of the ant's
> house.
>
> The BBC, interrupting a Rastafarian cultural
> festival special from Grimsby with breaking news,
> broadcasts them singing "We Shall Overcome."
>
> Ken Livingstone laments in an interview with
> Panorama that the ant has got 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, 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 the fine and his newly imposed
> retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by Camden
> Council.
>
> The ant moves to France, and starts a successful
> AgriBiz company [funded by the EU] (although within
> weeks, his business is threatened with Compulsory
> purchase by the state unless he marries a French
> ant).
>
> The BBC later shows the now fat grasshopper
> finishing up the last of the ant's food, though
> Spring is still months away, while the government
> 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, Diane Abbot
> is appointed to head a commission of enquiry that
> will cost £10,000,000.
>
> The grasshopper is soon dead of a drug overdose, the
> Guardian 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 growing Operations and terrorize the
> community.
>
> THE END.

To bloody true!
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