saltmine

We're all slaves in his saltmine, be it buses, tubes or ripping large amounts out of our council taxes to fund whatever survival schemes he hatches in that 'Quatermass' egg on the south bank, to which the forecourt-river pavement is 'private property'!? as the cringing galley slave asked the guy on the same oar, 'Do you think we should tip the drummer?'

Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2008