The New Puritan Way, still locked in coalition negotiations (which arn't going anywhere fast), have launched a blistering response to Firefly's warnings about budget cuts. His Holiness Father Sharpe, the spiritual leader of The Way, told a gathering of supporters the following:
"The Arch-Demon of the modern day Sodom and Gomorrah lies when he says the future of the UNP and human race depends on ever more millions of zarks being fed into that bastion of sin and sloth. The UNP is not under threat, any danger is manufactured by their propaganda machine to put fear into the ungodly and scare them into submission.
"But the supporters of the New Puritan Way are not swayed by the forked tongue of the King of serpents. We have the iron shield of faith to protect us from evil...
"The money the DDS demand could be better spent on Bibles and study for children, to learn the ways of the Lord and not fund the filthy lifestyles of He Who Walks Backwards and his little demons..."
Sharpe's speech was later condemned by rival party leaders.
