Taxing the Dead!
Liverpool Council’s Spring Sale of cremations is about to end – from the 1st April the price will increase by £156 – those council tenants who thought all their Christmas’s had come at once when they were relocated from Scotland Road to leafy Kirby, which unfortunately doesn’t have its own crematorium, will suffer a double penalty, their bill as non-city residents will double to £1,298.
A spokesman for Liverpool Council said (with a dead straight face):
“The unprecedented cuts in funding made setting the council’s budget extremely challenging and there was a determination to protect frontline services where possible.
Don’t all rush at once now! Form an orderly queue.
March 13, 2011 at 06:05Hmmm, interesting….
March 10,
2011 at 09:00I couldn’t find a match for the incendiary puns above, but may I offer this
from a Birmingham City Council press release last year?” The council has also identified several areas where it can increase
its revenue. These include looking at what can be done to increase revenues at
its cemeteries and crematoria…”
March 10, 2011 at 09:58If it’s Sandwell there’s no guarantee that the human fuel will have
expired before they incinerate it.
March 9, 2011 at 20:16Maybe Liverpool’s cremation costs could be reduced if they followed
Redditch’s example:-http://www.annaraccoon.com/reflections/death/
March 9, 2011 at 23:35Not possible. There are already three streets of terraced houses
unofficially tapped into the waste heat from the crem. They’d reheat their
take-aways there as well if they could find a shovel with a long enough
handle.
March 9, 2011 at 20:04They’d better not cremate me. The whole place will go up like a Molotov
Cocktail!- March 9, 2011 at 19:59
A grave error
Have Mersey on the poor people
Local urban decay –
cirrhosis of the Liver Building
March 9, 2011 at 19:57-
March 9, 2011 at 20:07 The Doors would be indispensible, with “C’mon baby light my fire”.
Followed by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown – ‘Fire’
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March 9, 2011 at 21:19 Bravo!
March 9, 2011 at 18:47Biers all round!
March 9, 2011 at 17:54Bombfire of the Quangoes, it’ll all end in Tiers
March 9, 2011 at 17:14Pah! These councils have money to burn. Let the pyre beware…
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