Saturday, June 19, 2010

Leeches

Polly Toynbee writes:
Cameron and Clegg are pre-modern leech doctors: the more they bleed the economy, the sicker the patient, the higher the deficit – so the more they apply leeches.
Leeches are actually very useful in medicine, they help patients recover if used right.

4 comments:

  1. Enough talk of slimy bottom feeding parasites, Ross!

    Tell us more about leeches instead.

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  2. That is indeed a stupendously shit analogy, well spotted.

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  3. Julia- very good.

    Mark- thank you.

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  4. Talk about projection! She has no peer for issuing repeat prescriptions that do no good.

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