Saturday, February 17, 2007
No Holidays For The Poor
The government took another step further in preventing poor people from leaving the country by announcing that all passport applications had to be made in person at centres around the country. It is expected that the decision will leave several thousand underprivileged persons without the means to afford a passport and comes after a raise in airport duty on cheap airlines. A Home Office spokesman defended the new laws by saying 'There are a growing number of working class and ill-educated people visiting foreign destinations previously frequented only by the middle and upper classes. Quite frankly we don't want chavs and pikeys messing up our favourite towns and beaches with their burger wrappers and loud dance music'.
Labels: beaches, fish and chips, holiday, passport, poor
# posted by mark @ 5:39 pm 
