Political Theatre

Tuesday's "debate" on the 2008 State budget was a fine piece of theatre. José Sócrates did a fine job of making a lot of noise about very little. Santana Lopes embarrassed himself with a poor reply. Jerónimo de Sousa, Paulo Portas and Francisco Louçã presented their pre-prepared insults in a predictable fashion, which is to say that the first was boring and the others clever.

In fact, I thought PP's reference to "Canal Memória" and FL's request for a refund on his ticket to the show were rather good. Shame that old Santana Lopes couldn't find anything inspired to say.

And so the democracy show rolls on with the Government coming out unscathed, as usual. Yawn...