While Birmingham City Council is not revealed as one of those basketcase local authorities of legend, the bureaucracy does not handle change well. |
Other than that, turn the volume up and enjoy classic like Basketcase, When I Come Around and American Idiot. |
But this would send a message out to the rest of the world that Greece is an economic basketcase and the eurozone is a currency union incapable of sorting out its own affairs. |
This is more than can be said for Mozambique's other major neighbour, Zimbabwe, once the region's breadbasket, but now its basketcase. |
Just 12 months or so before Hills' darkest days, the UK economy was also a basketcase. |