Growing your hair & koha

Colin James jumps on the obald bandwagon this morning pointing out to the slower of the populace the progress of the headmistress's changing stance on the Phillip Field business. I likened it your hair growing but Mr James much more eloquently (as befits a bloke who does this for a living) uses George Washington, the axe and the cherry tree as his analogy. Same point being made - change your stance incrementally in very small aliquots in the hope that the great unwashed won't notice. CJ gives us all a timely reminder of previous instances where Helen has just bluffed her way out of trouble (paintings, sprint to footy match etc. etc) but opines that this time she may be getting it wrong. Oh, I do hope so.

Editorial on the koha/lofa/bribes business. There is going to be an awful lot of time wasted here on legality when legality has nothing to do with it. What these jokers are (or are not) doing does not have to be illegal to be wrong. A couple of the articles on this stress the concept of reciprocity surrounding koha. Game, set and match. The overwhelming perception of the majority of the majority of the population is that what is alleged to have happened is just plain wrong - not illegal, but wrong. The fact that a majority of a few minorities think it is OK has nothing whatsoever to do with it. Elected public servants do not accept gifts - full bloody stop.

Helen has a cunning plan re the election pledge card money. It goes like this. We owe about $800,000 so we will underspend our 'allowance' by $400,00 per annum for two years and all will be jakes. Oh, no you don't. Pay the bloody folding varieties back. But a wee silver lining in that coming up with said cuuning plan is an admission of guilt as to events of a year back.

All in all there is a little hope that some of this mud might be startinig to stick. Just no one reach for the waterblasters for a year or two.

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