Tuesday, May 10, 2011

And sinks his barbs through honesty

New Zealand's Finance Minister explains the outcome of his two-and-a-half years at the helm of the economy:
Mr English says the financial situation is much worse than that which confronted National when it first formed the Government
Overseas readers might be surprised by English's willingness to make this kind of admission, and his freedom to argue that it requires moar of the current policies (austerity and tax cuts!). They do not know the state of the Labour Opposition.

18 comments:

Whale Chowder said...

If tax cuts and budget slashing are good enough for use here in USAmerica, it's good enough for you upside-downies.

Whale Chowder said...

<strike>use</strike> us

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

[strike]use[/strike] yous

P.S. How did you get blooger to let you use the angle brackets, W.C.?

I get "Your HTML cannot be accepted: Tag is not allowed: STRIKE".
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Whale Chowder said...

Right, I had to use &lt;strike&gt; to get the representation of what FYB wouldn't let me put in the post.

What, Blogger, "strike" is too SCAWWY for you?

w/v thinks I have a fixesse of anger. It may be right.

Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

Mr English says the financial situation is much worse than that which confronted National when it first formed the Government

VOTE FOR US!!!

Kathleen said...

don't change horses in mid-stream

Substance McGravitas said...

It is not pleasant to change the horse's diaper while it is peeing.

Unknown said...

There's always a software solution.

bleat, why yes I do, thank you for noticing.

Whale Chowder said...

Need I say it? Surely this is good news for McCain.

Hamish Mack said...

We're screwed

Mentis Fugit said...

And to get &lt;strike&gt; Whale Chowder had to type &amp;lt;strike&amp;gt;, opening the gate to the madness of recursion.

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

...opening the gate to the madness of recursion.

I read that novel! Scary as hell.
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guitarist manqué said...

opening the gate to the madness of recursion

Pshaw. Smut spreads that on his toast for breakfast. Gonna have to be more madly recursive or recursively mad to make a dent around here.

untousid by human hands

Smut Clyde said...

don't change horses in mid-stream

But what if the horses have stopped to drink? It is, after all, what we led them to the water for.

Hamish Mack said...

Sir! Riding while drunk is bad form! Sir!

mikey said...

Little known fact:

SMUT is a recursive acronym.

Smut's Muscat Undermines Truth.

Alternatively rendered as:

Smut's Muscat Undermines Time.

But very few people are willing to acknowledge the presence of those time people...

Smut Clyde said...

Musrum is terribly afraid of sponge cats.
Keep your sponge cat under control..

Mentis Fugit said...

Pshaw. Smut spreads that on his toast for breakfast.

QED.