Andy Champ wrote:
David WE Roberts wrote:
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So people (such as my parents) who loaned their savings to the
government in good faith got cheated after the war and lost a
significant amount of money.


Did a lot better than the inhabitants of Tyneham.

Moral - don't trust any government when it makes long term promises.

What's "long term" got to do with it?

Andy
And, ISTM, you are complaining not that politicians are corrupt, but
that they are not corrupt *IN YOUR FAVOUR*'....