politics: Bob crows - nobody listens.

I'm not a fan of trade unions, and the RMT 'General Secretary' Bob Crow is top of my hate list. He has spouted some nonsense over the years, but recently he has a new plan to make money.
Bob Crow wants to charge you for every email you send, and I am not making this up. You can hear this 'plan' during an interview on the Channel 4 show '10 o'clock Live'.
Go to about 31 minutes for his interview.

But what he didn't explain was that 1p per email was just an starting point and the new system operates on a sliding scale, I have the full details below.

Base charge:
Standard Email - 300 characters with an additional 100 characters as embedded links. Email headers not included in character count : £0.01

Extras.
Additional 200 characters of text: £0.01.
Additional 200 characters as embedded links: £0.02.
HTML email surcharge: £0.03.
Images - per 10kb of image: £0.05.
Images - Up to 500kb of images maximum of 5 images: £0.50.
Including a picture of Equine: £0.75.

Pornography - Pornographic content surcharge: £1.
Medication - Advertisement for medications surcharge: £0.50.
Humorous - Humorous content surcharge: £0.20.

High Priority - High Priority Flag set: £2.
Low Priority - Additional 50 characters included in Standard Email allowance.

International Rates:
Sending to EU country: Additional £0.10.
Sending outside of EU: Additional £0.50.

Discounts and additional charges:
Weekdays:
02:00 - 05:59: 20% discount
09:00 - 17:30: Additional 30% (minimum of 1p)
17:31 - 22:00: Additional 10% (minimum of 1p)

Weekends:
Saturday 15:00 - 18:00: 10% discount.
All day Sunday: 45% discount.


Lets work out how much this email would cost.

Dear Mr Crow,
You are clearly a lunatic with an inferiority complex. You feel threatened by anybody that is more intelligent than yourself, or who has achieved more through their own hard work. We can only hope that you don't believe the nonsense that you spout, and that you only make these ludicrous comments to gain media attention and just to convince yourself that you are important. If you really do believe the drivel that you spout then I have to worry that you could ever be elected to such a powerful position in any society. Please get of your high horse

 Sincerely,
               theguywhomoanscalledmatthew


Assuming standard priority the above email sent at 8pm would cost 1p for the Standard email, plus 2p more for exceeding 300 characters The picture of a horse incurs a 75p charge, plus 50p because it is 140kb. There is an additional 20p because the email is humorous, and another £1 because that is one sexy horse. Finally we have an extra 3p for sending at 8pm

So the total cost is ~£2.51.

Nice one Bob Crow, you just made the poor poorer.