I take a paternal interest in the expression shroud waving because it so neatly encapsulates the way that the public sector always respond to talk of spending cuts with some bleating about 'cuts to front line services', even though these make up barely half of most departmental budgets.
JuliaM links to an article by Polly which actually kicks of as follows:
In less than a year shrouds will be waving, bloody stumps displayed with empty begging bowls as the coalition lays into public services...
No trace of irony, nothing. You couldn't make it up.
A grim document
7 hours ago
3 comments:
Begging bowls? She's obviously spent too many holidays in Venezuela, Morocco and Peru.
how do you hold a begging bowl with a bleeding stump?
DP, you do occasionally see begging bowls in the UK, although nowadays people seem to use those large paper coffee cups.
Anon, you clutch it in your teeth.
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