In The Last Shower

So the ill-considered proposal to restrict shower pressure to six litres per minute has been put to bed. Somewhat apt and familiar ground for this government, considering that our beds--and the activities therein--have been somewhere this government has had a propensity to gambol before. But the full flush of public ridicule has forced our present--read omnipresent--leaders to retract what was I understand a Greens-enforced policy. They are embarrassed by it I am sure but saved I think by the all-too-common foot and mouth disease of John Key. The Labour Party is astute at this: the ability to ferret out minutiae such as Peter Sharples said that, John Key said this. Key, on the other hand, seems powerless to prevent it and presents an evidential demeanour that gives credence to Clark's claims that Key is inexperienced and not up to the task. As is often said, this is not Clark's election to win; it is Key's to lose. No pressure John.