How simple and pleasurable was life on Mars - I mean Houhora. Even the drive back was a day agreeably spent driving, gettng the outboard serviced, eating some of Adam Scott's tinned tuna and talking nonsense with a good mate, and then more driving. I think I was at about Wellsford when I felt the first twiniges of nausea brought on by breaking news on the Larry Williams show.
The smacking bill is going to be pushed through under 'urgency' next week. This is repugnant in every way. The Bill is no longer Sue Bloody Bradford's Anti Smacking bill (she has been reduced to the trivial waste of space that is her true station in life) but is now very firmly Helen Clark's Anti Smacking Bill. She has yet again ridden roughshod over every tenet of democracy to bring into law something she (and very few others) want. She does this against the wishes of a vast majority of the electorate and against the wishes of a significant section of her own party MPs - remember a significent number for her near minority government is only one or two. She is fearful that the Labour Party waverers might be swayed by their electorate to break ranks and vote with their conscience if the seven week interval before this was due to come up were allowed to run its course. The all powerful dictator could never allowed that could she? And have you noticed that she is running all this from overseas? She is safely in the States pretending to enjoy George Dubbya's company and is leaving that useless street fighting woman Bradford to do her dirty work for her.
First this was supposed to be a conscience vote and she (and she alone) turned it into a whipped party vote. When there was the spectre of some of her cadre turning it back into a conscience matter she brings in 'urgency'. How can this possibly qualify for urgency - except to preserve her grip on the absolute power she now holds over this country. When are we going to remind, no ram down her throat, this damned woman that shes governs under mandate and not as the dictatorial head of a totalitarian marxist regime.
She only gets away with this because we let her. Forget the smacking, that is but the vehicle that is delivering yet another affront on proper democratic process. Democracy in New Zealand is currently on life support.
The next election is now just a hair under eighteen months away - please, pretty please, keep takng your memory tablets
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