Obviously spoken by someone who has not had the sh*t shelled out of them in Basrah then....
They simply could not get away with this. There is a rather strict no retrospection rule.
What I think is more likely is a change in the rules for those joining in the near future...
Far easier (legally) to change for those that have not yet signed up.
As for where they will get the cash from, I hear the BOE are firing up the printing presses as we speak, after the B*stards that pr00ne has voted for have led us down into the worst economic crisis in the past 90 years.