Ask public sector labour. Ask the health care sector. They
know there can be no change because their fiscal arrangements — which represent
a very high percentage of total budgeted expenditures — have been carved in
stone.
Then there are the Polls. When the Premier’s popularity climbs
amidst a refusal to acknowledge a fiscal crisis — one that grows each day — it might
be right to suggest that the public, too, is content to leave the pain for
someone — anyone — else.
It is possible that other factors are at play; that what is really
influencing Ball’s polling gains is a Tory leadership vacuum. But I’m not so
sure about that.
