Guess who used to be a teacher?
Ok New Zealand
politics! I go away for a few weeks to attend to my spiritual enlightenment (Kifflom!
brothers and sisters, Kifflom!) and this is what I come back to?
I distinctly
remember making it clear that this kind of outlandish and irresponsible behavior
was to cease (see previous posts) and you lot were to get down to the business
of guiding this country forward and representing your constituents rather than disconnecting
your mouth from your brains and then blathering forth with the first inane
thoughts that came skittering into your mind, like crabs on sheet metal.
I mean what in
Kraffs name got into you? Did you think it was appropriate to say those things?
So what have you got to say for yourselves?
David Seymour
I know David
Seymour is irrelevant, you know that he is irrelevant and even he knows that he
is irrelevant and this is why he behaves the way he does.
After his bid for
TV stardom failed he has returned to the one other thing that he can do with
his life; and that’s spouting random gibberish.
Listening to David
on RNZ a few mornings ago it’s clear that Seymore knows he has absolutely no
political capital or credibility and all and DOES NOT CARE one speckled olive.
Rebrand ACT, good
luck with that as its likely to be effective as Bill Cosby changing his name
and going out to a singles bar and with ACT having the
popularity of NAMBLA nothing Seymour does is going to change its fortunes because the neo-liberal experiment has failed and we are now living with its
ghastly consequences.
Sure its dressed up
in the clothes of “fiscal responsibility” that ACT has always deluded itself
into thinking was its creed but to anyone except the ACT hard core (which is
now really just Seymour himself) this sounds just like a pedophile arguing that they
should be allowed to drive the school bus, disgusting, distasteful and just
plain ole wrong.
And listening to
Mathew Hooton, later that morning on RNZ, its clear that ACTS days are really
numbered if Hooton gets his way as ACT will be put to sleep for good come the
next election when National cuts off its political air supply in Epsom and
makes space for whatever political Frankenstein’s monster it wishes to create.
I would have more
sympathy for Seymour at this point if ACTs ideas and policies were not the
political and philosophical equivalent of child molestation.
All I can say
further about Seymour and ACT is the sooner they die (and Seymour has to go out
and get a real job) the better.
Judith Collins
It’s not
a series of tubes Judith it’s more like the largest unregulated experiment in human
history and anything you say or do inside that experiment is recorded and remembered
for posterity and then spat back at you when you least expect it.
And again Mathew Hooton,
on RNZ clearly does not like Judith with his dig at her about how many votes
she got in the recent National Party leadership challenge (that being one by
his source) or her chances of ever being leader of National are when he summed
up her behavior as that of a spoiled child daring her father (in this case
Simon Bridges) to call her out for her said antics, to which Bridges wisely
avoided doing.
But Did Collins
back down or apologize for sticking her foot up her backside and then dancing the
Hootchie Coo in front of the amazed eyes of all and sundry? No she did not and
in an absurd display of not understanding how the
Streisand Effect works went
to double down on her claims by telling Duncan garner that apologizing “would
only make things worse”.
Really? Really
Judith? Is that how apologizing works?
You have clearly
opened a doorway into your mind and your beliefs by tweeting out fact free mental
diareha as something you think your twitter followers should know about and
then then decided, very unwisely, to try and link it to the Labour party and
the PM (and we will get to her later) and instead of admitting your mistake you
sashay on like a pig in pink tutu at the
first day of school and you think apologizing would be a mistake?
Remember the Orivida
scandal? Remember that and all the other grotesque things you have said and
done, because the series of tubes does and one quick Google search can remind people
of all your acts of political bestiality in your ghastly career and as much as
you lust for the throne you will never get it.
Your only hope is
that the auto correct will change their search to
Judy Collins rather than
Judith because otherwise you are only a step above David Seymour as something
that has only just learnt to walk on its hind legs but never quite got the
habit of appearing human.
Back to your scum
pit at once!
Marama Davidson
In your case Marama
I really don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
“
Reclaim the C word?” What the F word are you talking about? You sound like a mid-90s campus
radical, you know, someone who does not really have any idea of what they are
talking about but will regurgitate any platitude or saying they hear as the faux
radical they are.
You are aware of
the perilous space the Green party exists in and you’re ok with wasting its
valuable (and extremely limited) media exposure on this kind of backwards
feminist antics when things like #metoo and equal pay movements are now things.
Worse still you
said it at a rally against racism and thereby high-jacked the events agenda
with your pointless political grandstanding, you are about as on message there
as Seymour and Collins. What in the name of our Lord and Savior Xneu were you
thinking?
Ah but of course
you weren’t thinking were you and like Collins instead of apologizing you’re
going to crystallize your position and be now and forever known as the “C-Word
lady” rather than for anything else meaningful,
like for instance the environment, you know that thing the Green party is
supposed to be about.
Oh wait, I forgot,
this is the “new” Green party, the one that has pretty much sold out its
ecological agenda under the queasy leadership of James “anything for the
dollar” Shaw and decided that it’s just going to abandon any real pretense to
its environmental and social base and simply allow itself to dissolve into a
seething mass of radical posturing and empty sloganeering.
Your shallow
Marama, very shallow; going out there and shouting profanities is not going to
help anyone and certainly not yourself or your party and it does nothing but
sell the image that the Greens don’t know what the hell they are doing and need
to be treated with the same scorn and disdain that ACT gets, is that what you want?
And for the record
it’s not the word itself, profanities come and go and a bad word today is
common currency tomorrow but it’s the fact that you seem to think that your use
of them is appropriate, or even helpful, to the causes you are supposed to be representing.
The only thing you
have reclaimed is the idea that the Greens don’t know how to handle being in
power and that your role as deputy leader is just window dressing under the
Shaw junta.
Jacinda Ardern
And now to our PM,
who in the face of the increasing unrest and industrial action in the desperately
overworked and underpaid nursing and teaching sectors (ones where the majority
of workers are women by the way Marama!) decided that it was a good idea to not
to make time meeting with protesters, only to crap her pants with fear when
thousands of them filled parliaments grounds and other public spaces around the
country.
Watching
your speech to those protesters it was clear you had, as you said, looked down from
your window on high and realized that you had screwed the pooch (so to speak)
just as Seymour, Collins and Davidson had done. And just like those cretins you
could not just go down and hear their demands and show some sympathy but
instead thought it was a good idea to go out there and waffle on about how it’s
not “us and them” but “just us”.
Really Jacinda,
really? I mean REALLY? You have critiqued the teachers for walking away from the bargaining table and implied that they should have held out for a better offer like the
nurses did. Is that the way a Labour government wants to run its labor
relations?
You had the nerve
to front a crowd simply wanting to get paid what they are worth and tell them that
you’re down with radical change but that “radical change takes time”. Are you
kidding me?
Do you know what
those two words imply when put together or more to the point what they implied
30 years ago when it was perfectly OK for the then Labour party to embark on a
program of radical economic change in no time at all and damn the torpedoes? Do
you even know what
punctuated equilibrium means?
However the crowd
did not seem down for your panicked platitudes and twitchy hand waving because
the only cheers they made where when you referenced them and not you!
It’s clearly an Us
and Them situation when you have decided that crisis management style
employment bargaining is the way to go rather than just paying what they are
worth (especially since you get half a million a year), settling the issue and getting back some respect and credibility for it.
And it’s also clear
that when faced with anything less than an adoring crowd you don’t know how to
deal with people who have not bought your BS posturing hook line and sinker
when they know that you could give them their pay rises and then some if you
simply did not spend billions of dollars on a few maritime surveillance planes.
Which do you think is the greater priority to them and NZ?
Is this what you
mean when you and other Labourites keep saying that you have failed in your
messaging because it’s clear that YOU think you’re doing a great job and expect
the populace (that would be the Us) to simply thank you for all that you have done
in those first 100 days and get with the program.
Well Jacinda, the
program is that between 30 years of Labour and National hollowing out this
country there is not a lot left of the socially
democratic state that was created by your forebears all those years ago and
what we are left with is a government willing to play politics, give the
illusion of change by creating a whole lot of committees (often staffed with
Labour cronies) and keep on with the same business friendly agenda that
National had but with a slightly more oppositional tone to maintain the
illusion that you’re not just another lackey for business confidence crowd.
As our PM you have squandered
almost all the goodwill generated from the election and done nothing to refill
the coffers. You think that you can take a leaf from the Poodle Blair book of politicizing
and try and foster a feel good personality cult around yourself and that will
be sufficient to compensate for all the other failures to meet public
expectations.
Well I am happy to
say it won’t and there will be more not less of this kind of stuff (that being strikes and industrial actions) until you
actually do what you and Labour promised and implied when you went out there
and said “Lets do this!” to the voters.
And of the four you
are the worst offender here. The other three are political wastrels and minor
players while you are supposed to be something else. But it seems that your
star is already on the wane when you can’t even show genuine sympathy for a
crowd of ticked off teachers and instead have to use the moment to try and make
some demented political point rather than just saying they are worth it and
paying them.
It is worth noting
that previous PMs of the National party would probably not even have fronted
such a gathering so I am acknowledging you had the guts to do that but one individual
action, in and of itself, does not change the fact that the government of the day
is fundamentally responsible for this situation and if Labour does not address it
fully and fairly then they are bad as National under John Key was when they
ignored it and refused to front. Is that something you want to be identified with or remembered as?
