O what a circus

The latest embarrassment for the government is the inability to launch two highly publicised pieces of legislation – the Companies’ Act and part of the Consumer Protection Act.


The musical “Evita” contains a song called “Oh what a circus” which contains a number of lines, apart from the title, that apply to this and other pieces of legislation which were pushed through with undue haste and total disregard for its wider impact:

Here's the quote from that song:

She didn’t say much but she said it loud (reminds me of someone else of the male persuasion who crawled out of the woodwork in the last year or so)
Falling over ourselves to get all of the misery right
As soon as the smoke from the funeral clears we're all gonna see and how, she did nothing for years
That's all they wanted, not much to ask for but in the end you could not deliver
That's a pretty bad state for a state to be in
Instead of government we had a stage



Quoted from Paul Kruger - Monstone compliance