"When people are told they have no right to stay,
we expect them to go home voluntarily.
[UK Border and Immigration Minister Phil Woolas,
commenting on illegal immigrants, quoted in
the London Evening Standard, 09.02.09]
I seem to recall that the Punxsutawney groundhog is also called "Phil."
I wonder if ours might be used for some ceremonial purpose also, such as
predicting the duration of Brown's Bankruptcy.
If he sees his own shadow, or even if not, no doubt we'll see ten more
years of winter.
Please distribute this short but oh-so-insightful quote everywhere you
can, especially to any redundant voters who are or used to be Labour
supporters.
Mrs Thatcher famously once said, "The trouble with Socialism is that you
eventually run out of other people's money."
Or you could just print more...