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 Hivefleet Oblivion wrote:


I've had it with this blinkin' middle class inflation (this is Hivefleet Sr here, the one who pays the bills).

And now cups of tea are under threat? What (apart from cheese) is there left to live for?

Middle class? MIDDLE CLASS? Tea is classless! Tea is what built this fine country! Without Tea we are doomed!!!!

Ladies and Gentlemen of Dakka, I call upon you to all do your bit! We must stand up for what it right and proper in this world and insist, nay demand, that the government take urgent action to secure our tea supplies for now and for future generations! If not there will be consequences! CONSEQUENCES I TELL YOU!

And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountain green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?
And did the countenance divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among those dark satanic mills?

They ran tea-wagons in WWII to troops stationed abroad.
Churchill knew the effect tea had on us, and had the vans shipped out.

http://vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=51297&sos=0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_lady