"Dogger" wrote Your best way to fight is the loss of community, the
loss of the green
space, ecology recycling. Get the Greens on your side.

Forget the Greens, concentrate on the Greys. Even the Chancellor runs
scared of pensioners marching on Parliament and appearing outside
courtrooms - he's been running for cover for a while now, scattering free
TV licences, winter fuel allowances and £100 "Council Tax Rebates" in his
wake, in the hope of putting them off the scent.

If there's one thing all politicians fear it's people who have the time
and the inclination to bombard them with letters, phone calls, corporate
complaints and awkward questions and to pack the public gallery at Council
meetings.

IME, pensioners are ideally placed to make Councillors' and Local Govt
Officers' lives a complete misery and they have the advantage that
politicians instinctively feel that they *have* to listen to them and tend
to be hamstrung when it comes to fighting back. Although politicians can
be robust (often downright rude) in their handling of the rest of us, it
doesn't do to be seen to be ignoring or rough-handling an 80-year old
grannie now, does it?

- Tom.