We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Guy King
saying something like:

The message
from Grimly Curmudgeon contains these words:

Where we don't have water charges

It just pays for itself?

Ignore DD's flight of fantasy. Some years back a vote-getting gov't
abolished domestic rates and lumped the cost of Council services on
business rates. Business howled at the time, but the voters were
pleased. Now the problem is that any gov't that re-introduces domestic
rates and water charges will be committing electoral suicide.

In the meantime, I sit and enjoy it.
--

Dave