I feel almost obligated to make some sort of a comment on the shameful business playing out in the cesspit that is the Wellington political scene. But really why should I? It is all so tawdry and unnecessary. It is politics for politics sake and has nothing to do with the real world.
Whilst all this disgraceful stuff is playing out the country is struggling. I heard on the electric wireless at cup of tea time this morning (0515) a chap bemoaning that he is facing laying off his whole gang of eight gibstoppers tomorrow as there is no work for them. At a different end of the employment spectrum my dentist daughter tells me that people are not coming in to have their teeth fixed in droves. Intra-oral 'business' is a fraction of what it was only a couple of months ago. And all the while we (and I include myself in this) are fixated by people telling porkies wholesale.
Yesterday (and the day before if you recall Margaret Wilson's partisan display) in Parliament was just appalling. Dear Leader is patently just doing anything to remain in power. She is being lauded by some dements for her loyalty to Winston. Bollocks her loyalties should not be to Peters or any other of her political cronies. Her loyalty should be primarily to the country and that country is being spectacularly ill served by its politicians at the moment. Even the mechanics of getting through the afternoon in Parliament yesterday was a joke. Everyone turns up for the main show, that of seeing Winston Raymond Peter's head being bought in on a stick. And what do we get? The gummint suddenly decides that things have to be delayed because the dental nurse has to tell everyone that the Police have almost decided they want Tazers. More filibustering with Dail Jones opining that this is a most important matter and needs to be debated at length. Bollocks. Do they think we are fools? Well obviously they do.
Dear Leader has decided that Peters is OK until the Parliamentary Privileges Committee has decided whether her Foreign Minister or her biggest financial benefactor (and it can't be both) is telling the truth. This again is nonsense as there is no way the Committee can discern this. Glenn has already said he won't appear and will not be cross examined.
It is not hard to see that the PPC has been told that Winston will not be found guilty of anything significant and Dear Leader can then go into the next round of name calling and supercilious arrogance. She has already started this accusing Key of prejudging things by giving Peters the flick. And then Winston will start suing people and then...............who cares?
I used to (only about six months ago) enjoy politic watching and thought it was something I should be more involved in. After all the alternative to democracy is too ghastly to contemplate. I have now morphed into someone who watches the goings on with a morbid sort of disgust. The worrying thing is that the more tawdry it becomes the less inclined I am to look the other way.
I must harden up and not look at all.
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