Mugabe: "Let me eat cake, and give us loans, and white farmers give your farms back and it;s all Britains fault."

So on what grounds do Zimbabwe's leaders think they deserve a bailout? They want money.
Tell you what, I am gonna go out tonight, smash my car, steal furniture from the neighbors and beat them up if they want to press charges, lie around at home all day (with a shotgun on my chest), and then I'm going to expect someone to bail me out when it's time to pay my rent.
That's how absurd Mugabe's strategy is. Name ONE good thing he is doing for his country. Zille is right. It's rampant cronyism, and that sickness has spread to South Africa's elites. More cake, anyone?

clipped from news.bbc.co.uk Mugabe supporters raised $250,000 (£176,000) for a lavish birthday party in Chinhoyi, north-west of Harare. Zimbabwe asked African states for $2bn (£1.4bn) in economic aid just days ago. Morgan Tsvangirai, the new prime minister and former opposition leader, did not attend the celebrations despite earlier indications that he might. The birthday celebrations come as Zimbabwe struggles with the world's highest inflation, food shortages and a cholera epidemic which the World Health Organisation says has killed 3,894 people since August last year. More than half the population is believed to need food aid, while just 10% of adults have a regular job.