tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post4196860415251111120..comments2024-02-06T07:57:54.467+00:00Comments on underdogs bite upwards: Another tradition ruined.Leg-ironhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-66246593845584900282011-04-03T00:16:20.973+01:002011-04-03T00:16:20.973+01:00Anon - it's gone into 'maniac day' eve...Anon - it's gone into 'maniac day' every day lately!<br /><br />SR - it's a neat trick they've pulled but they've missed something. Sure, they'll have some pensioners on teh new improved pension by the next election - but there'll be an awful lot of pensioners still on the old rate.<br /><br />Not only will they not get the new rate, they'll see those around them who are. These same pensioners will, by then, have been castigated for smoking, drinking, using salt, eating butter... there'll be a lot of very angry voters next time.<br /><br />I just hope they don't vote Labour.Leg-ironhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-20089590880117024812011-04-02T14:17:30.469+01:002011-04-02T14:17:30.469+01:00Oh how I wish you hadn't highlighted the pensi...Oh how I wish you hadn't highlighted the pension story. My blood pressure is, once again, pounding in my ears.subrosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151702590329788260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-28642569246915984142011-04-02T10:10:09.707+01:002011-04-02T10:10:09.707+01:00It's 'April' Fools Day every day in th...It's 'April' Fools Day every day in this country. Nothing to do with pranks, but reliant on the fact that most of the population have been trained to believe anything, any time....<br /><br />'Word' synonyms for Fool (verb): trick, hoodwink, con, dupe, deceive, pull the wool over someone's eyes, bamboozle.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com