Vexed Bermoothes

The Budget will be delayed by 10 days to February 26 with Finance Minister Paula Cox today explaining that Government “wanted to give ourselves more manoeuvrability”.

Huh?  Now that’s a strange explanation.

I read in this in four possible ways:

• Everyone would still be hung over on the 16th from Ewart’s celeb-stalking Valentine’s Love Festival; or
  
• The books are so out of whack they need more time to dream up the budget; or
• They need to strike some deals before the budget is announced and it becomes known exactly how bad things are; or
• They want to delay it as long a possible so that there will be pressure for the community to accept anything with the April 1 deadline looming (when Government technically would have to shut down for lack of an approved budget).

I am unimpressed by “National Budgets” that can’t be delivered on time. Sounds like politics are interfering yet again in good stewardship and management.

I assume that Minister Cox is also embarrassed as she chose to make the announcement late on a Friday evening, hoping it would fall between the cracks.

Every time you think it’s bad, it gets worse!  Mom, can we go home now, this circus sucks!  Too many clowns.