At first blush, Alf was tempted to think it’s a bloody good thing we Nats dumped Don Brash and opted for John Key as our leader.
Alf has a lot of time for dear old Don, but it seemed the bugger hasn’t kept his 2025 task force costs under control, and the task force’s budget is miniscule compared with the Government’s budget, which Bill English is keeping under very strict control.
If Don happened to be our PM, in other words, who knows how deeply into the shit we would have sunk by now.
Alf’s musings on the prospects of a budgetary blowout in the billions of dollars were triggered by a headline in the Dom-Post:
Brash blows fees budget
Bugger me, Alf muttered (as he is apt to do on being astonished by disconcerting news about his colleagues and mates).