Try to catch up BW. Gordon Brown's five billion pound raid on the pension funds is very old, but well documented, news.

It affected everybody with a company pension, but, as should be obvious, it hurt those of us on low incomes most of all.

It reduced my income to the point that I haven't had any kind of holiday since 2006, and when my car needed repairs last September, it ended up in my garage U/S for over seven months. It would have been much longer if I hadn't rceived a small legacy.

As to your not voting New Labour, I assume that means you voted liberal, which hasn't meant anything at all except a hung parliament.

Thank God two party leaders had the sense to start talking to their political opponents, or we'd be facing five years of no improvement, along with total loss of credibility as one of the World's foremost financial markets. And that, my friend, is a bloody big slice off our GDP.

Don T.