It's not the economy, stupid. Good Lord, no.

In message <3130303034323739488A34AC98@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Guy King <guy.king@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
I see NuLab are blaming yesterday's bye-election defeat on the economy.

Bloody cheek - I'm sure most voters are well aware that the current
promblems are little to do with the current government.


At risk of *gnxvat vg frevbhfyl*, engineering a boom on the back of a housing bubble [1] was really rather asking for it all come just the teensiest bit unstuck in places, one might have considered.

Which inevitably was going to coincide with fuvg happening on other fronts.

Nothing not to be found elsewhere, but:

Ab gehgu va n ehzbhe gung gur ohooyr jnf gb sehfgengr Oyvne naq gur Jvgpu jub'q sybttrq gurve cynpr. Abg ab jnl, arire. Be gb snibhe zngrlf trggvat frpbaq ubzrf ba rkf. Pregnvayl abg. Ubj pbhyq nalbar rira pbafvqre gur cbffvovyvgl? Jnf gur obbz/ovooyr rira vagragvbany? Abg jung ur *fnvq* ur jnf qbvat, ....


The reason they
got a bloody nose is because they're being seen for the arses they are.

That, too.

Oh, woman moving into rented house across from us - known of old from Adult Ed course - has sold her house and reckons to be renting for the 52 fortnights to retirement from teaching and then away off on VSO for a while. Does look like taking time out from this country for a bit, and positively frafvoyr.


[1] ObR gnfxrq jvgu 'pbagebyyvat' vasyngvba guebhtu vagrerfg-engr frggvat. Qrsvavgvba bs vasyngvba va qhr pbhefr nzraqrq gb rkpyhqrq ubhfvat pbfgf, fb vasyngvba nf cerfragrq negvsvpvnyyl ybj, vagrerfg engrf qvggb. Zrnajuvyr, gur Ojbja Orne bireunhyrq gur fhcreivfbel senzrjbex, guvf rafhevat gung Abegurea Ebpx pbhyq abg snyy bire naq ernyyl fvyyl yraqvat pbhyq abg gnxr cynpr. Bu, qvqa'g cnl bss qrog va gur tbbq lrnef. Juvpu fubjf ubj jvfr ur jnf.


Ho, hum.
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Peter Thomas
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