Borough of Ealing council has caused outrage following claims they evicted a single mother with two young children because a snowman they built was deemed to be an additional tenant.
The council acted on a tip off from a bitter neighbour who had previously been threatened with losing her home on the same grounds when she erected a scarecrow in her back garden.
Ealing council spokesperson Diana Kills-Love revealed the reasons in a heartbreakingly candid defence of her obligations saying, 'In times of such austerity we thought it appropriate to act.'
'Such a public flouting of the housing benefit system is something we simply will not tolerate.
'They weren't even married. Such casual promiscuity sets a bad example. The day before she was with a different snowman.'
'We can confirm the family's whereabouts are at this time unknown, but the snowman remains in situ due to a small colony of bats taking residence in a cavity we can only assume was originally intended as some sort of ill conceived stomach.'
Human Rights campaigners were immediately irked at the news.
'This really is a terrible day for the British people. There is an empty property just sitting there whilst this poor snowman remains outside in the cold.'
'It could be the death of him.'
A local residents group said they would be taking the case to the Court of Human Rights where they would eagerly await it being summarily dismissed as a matter for the British government, before taking in some of the sights Strasbourg has to offer.
