Further to yesterday’s astounding news that weather changes every so often and the 1817 letter announcing melting of ice in the North West Passage the following budget statement by Prime Minister Brown the Younger has been discovered:
‘If it pleaseth the House, the following measures are proposed to reverse the abomination known as global warming which is clearly caused by woefulness in ye London society, too much gin and a general sinfulness amongst the common people.
‘I therefore, in the sight of God and the King, propose a two guinea tax on horses over 16 hands - hay guzzlers as they are popularly known - and a tax free band for the lowest consumption animals, like ye ponies of the Shetland Isles.
This, along with increased investment in cobbled streets, it is hoped, will encourage the common man out of his horse and cart and onto ye stagecoach.
Sedan chairs will remain tax exempt and I propose reducing the impact of the ‘school run’ by sending small children up chimneys.
‘Further, as ye works by the famed Mr Hogarth show, congestion is rife in ye lanes and courts of London. I therefore propose a charge be levied on any common man suffering from such congestions and bronchial malaises’
An 1817 'walking dress' designed to contain carbon emissions
Dancing was a cause of many accidents as in the quadrille
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