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4:51 pm, December 17th, 2009 - 10 comments
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Bill English says “I never thought running a government in a recession would be so easy”
Mate, it’s always easy to do f#ck all. Ain’t so easy for the poor at xmas.
Can’t help notice that English is also claiming he, not Key, runs the government. Inasmuch as anyone does.
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“Can’t help notice that English is also claiming he, not Key, runs the government.”
Um, yes you can help [but] notice that English is claiming that he runs the government, because English did not say that.
After watching the 2008 Olympics If I were to say “I never thought running 100m in under 9.6 seconds would be so easy”, by that same logic I’m clearly saying that I just ran 100m under 9.6 seconds?
How would you know it was easy?
He rode piggy back?
The man has NO shame!
yup, makes you tingle with anticipation at the brilliant visionary ideas ready to spring forth now that nasty old recession is banished and Bill gets a green light to dazzle us with his masterplan………….YEAH RIGHT.
The last government left the books in great shape.
And successive Australian governments have resisted calls to allow their banks to be sold to overseas concerns like….Citibank etc. So Oz and NZ have a big advantage there.
Had Brash had won the 2005 election, we would be in as deep a hole as Ireland. Not to mention the Exclusive Brethren influence!
Deep in his heart, Bill English knows this.
heart? Bill English?
We should all be happy in the fact the decade of deficits is now only 8 years of deficits. Thank you Bill English.
We should have returned to surplus just as the Andrew Little led Labour Party sweeps back into government where he will be lucky enough to be handed the reigns through 9 years of prosperous growth with bulging goverment coffers.
The last government left the books in great shape.
That is simply and utterly wrong. Behind in the polls, what Cullen did in the 2008 budget was nobble the incoming government with a decade of deficits. An unbelievably cynical election ploy given the $billions of other peoples’ money he was playing with.
Agree with this. The economy was in great shape, but Cullen shafted us at the end for no reason other than spite.