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:

JuliaM said...

Enough talk of slimy bottom feeding parasites, Ross!

Tell us more about leeches instead.

Mark Wadsworth said...

That is indeed a stupendously shit analogy, well spotted.

Ross said...

Julia- very good.

Mark- thank you.

TDK said...

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