On 29 Mar 2007 12:31:17 -0700, "MIG"
wrote:

On Mar 29, 1:29 pm, wrote:
On Mar 29, 12:12 am, Michael Hoffman wrote:

Steve Fitzgerald wrote:
Everybody who rings numbers locally in London can just dial the last 8
digits of the 'full' number, so it should be obvious that the dialling
code is 020 from that.

Somehow, I imagine there are many people in London who don't know that
they can do that.

The scary thing is that this was such a simple change, and there are
still 59% of the population who don't understand it. Just tax the
stupid people!


They do. Have you heard of the National Lottery?

That's not a tax on stupidity per se, more a tax on hope.