My mate down at the Star and Splendour says his local council has put up the cost of using the Scout hut once a week by 300%. Okay it’s gone up from £20 to £60 a year which doesn’t sound much but that’s not the point.

The Scouts have got to find another forty quid a year out of their own pockets. You can be darned sure the council hasn’t cut its biscuit ration to councillors by £40 a year or put a penny on the price of a cuppa in the over-subsidised town hall canteen or even started charging for staff parking.