Unless the boss can pull something out of thin air and borrow a lot of money by Friday, we'll have to go into bankruptcy and I'll have to look for other work.
Early hopes in northern regions that their economies would be sheltered by the relatively large numbers of people working in the public sector have been dashed.
His relation to his own proposals during the campaign has been pleasantly noncommittal, if generally liberal (as voters and the media are only now getting around to noticing).
'we had remnants,' Mr. Payne says, pointing out that some of the cameramen were still in rehearsals themselves. 'You don't see the finished glossy product that we've become accustomed to.'