Tale of the Squirrel and the Grasshopper.?I think this describes Britain(or the way we are heading). Does anyo

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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 informs 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, Green peace, 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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 government for enriching Britain’s multicultural diversity praises the asylum-seeking cats 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 fund. ____________THE END____________________

Answer 1

Wow! That was great. But you forgot to mention the bit where the squirrel was wearing a cute necklace with a mouse on it, but the cats didn't like it. The squirrel was told to take it off and when he refused, he was suspended from his little squirrel job and had his story plastered all over the Sun Newspapers. This all happened because the squirrel's bosses didn't want to offend the cats, but they didn't seem to care about the little hardworking squirrel...........

Answer 2

Very true. Have you noticed how you see less and less squirrels everyday? Whereas there are more and more grasshoppers and cats about. A very sad state indeed.

Answer 3

I agree, people don't want to work for what they have anymore, they'd much rather sit at home all day, taking drugs, having kids and bumming money off the social!!

Good Point Matey!
Thumbs up for you!

Answer 4

Yeah..then I have been given attacked by way of fact the Squirrel became out to be an murderer that became incognito whom became out to get me. Then, I took photos of the squirrel & sent it to the police & now he's being held captive in his reformatory cellular. I then visited him and we grew to alter into stable friends. I then bailed him out of reformatory & he's now residing in my basement. We delight in listening to The Beatles & MGMT jointly.. and answering squirrel-suitable & performing arts questions approximately Y!A.

Answer 5

That is so funny.

Yes - people don't seem to take responsibility for their own lives anymore. They are too lazy.

But then you don't want to see people dying because they are cold and hungry. How do you solve this?

Answer 6

a brilliant take on "animal farm".you have hit the nail on the head,so depressingly true.answers on a postcard,please.(as you can probably guess,i work for a living to.so,thats just the two of us then!

Answer 7

Gee, I thought it sounded a lot like the US too.
Kudos,so true.

Answer 8

ahhh macadoo you are a wise person

Answer 9

a newer version of aesop's?

Answer 10

I thought it was the grasshopper and the ant.....?