Taxman
A few years ago I received a statutory fine for non completion of my tax return. It was true, I hadn't filled it in, but then I don't have to, as I'm a teacher, and the Local Authority deal with all that guff for us.

Wrote to the taxman, who briefly and politely said, "tough titty, pay up or else it'll cost you more!" (n.b. this may not be the exact wording of the letter.) Wrote again. Told in no uncertain terms to pay up. Spoke to the Authority payroll people who said, "don't know what your on about, everything in order our end, pay up and challenge it.

So I did.

A few weeks later I got a letter back indicating that the aforementioned hardened mammary situation still stood.

At this point I wrote to my MP, a well known Lincolnshire Tory hang 'em/flog'em type, listing my grievances, point by point, expecting to get the standard non commital letter in return.

But no! He took the letter to the Chief of Treasury, who investigated, and had my hundred quid back to me in under two weeks.

Result!

(Mind you, the MP's still a supercilious Tory tw@t of the first order, but in my book he's now MISTER supercillious tw@t!)
( The Lone Groover has mal des nuts., Wed 8 Sep 2010, 20:49, 1 reply)

Would that be Douglas Hogg?
Grandson of the great Lord Hailsham? I was friends with his son and visited their pile and its 'moat', which is actually more of a typical Lincolnshire ditch filled with water than a sweeping Leeds Castle affair. But I can confirm that, despite his best efforts to be otherwise, supercilious is unfortunately how he came across.
(Happybara The jungle came alive and took him, Thu 9 Sep 2010, 10:41, closed)