With the government that us Brits voted in, it's difficult in the extreme to tell, from their 'policies', when any day is not April 1st - ergo, April 1st is just another day.
A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))
Probably not original, but Piet Koornhof (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Koornhof) famously said that every time he made a joke, people thought it was a policy statement. And every time he made a policy statement, people thought he was joking.