Nevertheless, there is much jubilation in Wales that this jiggery-pokery appears to have been accepted by Eurocrats.

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The drugs barons have used legal jiggery-pokery to mask the ownership of assets.

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He concedes, however, doing so would likely require some software jiggery-pokery.

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But if investors fail to spot the jiggery-pokery with credit scores and the outright fraud that permeated the subprime market, that cushion of safety quickly disappears.

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FSA, says that the agency is busy implementing a new law that gives it more power to deal with jiggery-pokery in other corners of financial services.

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This does away with actuarial jiggery-pokery in estimating liabilities and so exposes the true volatility of pension funds with a high weighting of their assets in equities.

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In practice, cutting taxes requires tough choices, not financial jiggery-pokery.

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So some jiggery-pokery not unknown to local tradition could be tempting.

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Blatant jiggery-pokery by his conservative backers in the Council of Guardians, a body charged with supervising the election, resulted in the announcement on May 20th that he had somehow finished in 20th place.

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