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The dreaded hot pastry tax.

The hated ‘pasty tax’ is to be reversed but many will still pay more to have the delicious snack hot, it has been revealed. Pasty George Osborne has decided that as long as hot takeaway food is cooling naturally, it will not be subject to 20 per cent VAT, as planned. Confused, well you are not alone, doesn’t anything hot cool naturally? My sources at Molly Media hot footed it over to Fleet Street to interview chief anti-pasty-tax activist Mr. Sweeney Todd. ‘This damn tax on munchies is poaching on my proceeds of me honest toil’, he was quoted as saying. Apparently his premises on Fleet Street were raided last week by Customs officials waving thermometers. An extremely angry Mr. Todd told us he and his customers were left traumatized by the heavy handed thermometer wielding thugs. A very flustered Marie Antoinette told my reporters that she didn’t understand what all the fuss was about. At this point Mr. Todd waved his meat cleaver at her and chased her down the street shouting, ‘Off with her head.’ Other ridiculous taxes included the window tax, the hat tax, the playing card tax and lastly the most stupid, the moustache tax. Pasty George is in good company!