I'm not sure if it was a slip of the tongue or a deliberate attempt at humour (though the unsmiling delivery suggests the former) but I heard Geroge Osborne* interviewed today talking of Gordon Brown's "financial incontinence". Talk about pissing it up the wall!

(* For those unfamiliar with British Politics, George Osborne is the Consersavative Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. That means that he is in the pretend Government that the party out of power forms ready for the possibility that they win the next election.)

I heard parts of that interview (Andrew Marr show?) and I think he was serious and the choice of words was deliberate. He was talking of Brown's waste of our money and lack of control.

Analogous to our former President Regan's "Trickle- Down Economics," I suppose.

It's an interesting phrase. I see that it's cited 347 times only on Google, mostly from the UK.