That got your attention. And it's not a long way off the angle taken by, first, the Conservative Party, and then the Daily Mail. Here's Tory local government spokeswoman Caroline Spelman, expressing her outrage to the Mail at this attempted breach of security on her knicker draw:

"The forthcoming Council Tax revaluation and rebanding will mean an army of nosy clipboard inspectors invading people's homes, including their bedrooms.

Those filthy, meddling, left-wing, sicko, bedroom-invading perverts. Prescott's office describe the claims as "scaremongering", and point out that inspectors have had the authority to enter homes since 1992.