Favourites List

Anybody who uses a computer to surf the internet is familiar with the concept of a "Favourites List". It's that button you push when you want to see the list of your favourite web sites. It's a useful tool that means you don't have to think to remember where to go next - it's just there in front of you on the list.

Shawn Graham and the Worst Government Ever have been working on building up their favourites list over the past couple of years, and it's become pretty obvious who's on it over the past month or so.

For instance, if you're a teacher or a nurse - you're on the list. We know this because even though they didn't have the money, the Worst Government Ever signed huge salary increases with them just weeks before freezing the wages for all the other civil servants. You know, slackers like social workers and forest rangers.

Recently they added another group to the favourites list - home care workers. Now nobody would disagree with giving raises to the people who travel the back roads of New Brunswick looking after our seniors. It just seems a little strange that the Worst Government Ever would crow about these big raises in a press release the week after they totally hosed the nursing home workers by reneging on their tentative agreement and making them take a wage freeze. Guess some people are on the list and some aren't.

We know some of the others who aren't on the list, such as anyone in rural New Brunswick, or anyone who needs help with the winter power bills. And we know some of the others who are on the favourites list, like the President of NB Liquor, ducks, and anyone who wants to start a houseboat business.

The question we're wondering at NB Conservative is this: will any voters have the Worst Government Ever on their favourites list when the next election happens in September of 2010?