Make your mind up

I don't normally regard the pages of the Herald as a source of family pride but the top corner of A6 today supplies just that. The article quoted from the New Zealand Dental Journal about the impact of 'Makeover' shows on cosmetic dentistry in New Zealand was written by my daughter - although her Head of Department gets the quotes; I'll write and complain.

Obviously all else in the rag pales into insignificance but the Claytons decison by the Auckland City Council wastes plenty of trees. All very predictable and , as Moocha said 'and so it begins..........'. Maybe ' 'ere we go, 'ere we go', 'ere we go' wold be more like it. The lawer representing the five residents who failed to get their injunction yesterday (who apparently live in St Johns, nowhere near either the waterfront or Eden Park) threatens 'you ain't seen the last of us yet'. We have the ARC (why the Hell do we have to 'have' the ARC at all) having their go this morning and then all this blancmange of nondecisons get sent to another mob in Wellington where Pond Scum will tell them what to do. For probably the only time in my life I find myself agreeing in the tiniest way with Mallard's attitude. Make a decision and do it. Sod all this fairness, just do it. Do anything, right or wrong, but do something and stop talking about it. The track record of the wallies making the decisoin is spectacularly unimpressive and we know they are going to get it wrong so please get it wrong now and we can all concentrate on something more interesting and relevant to day to day life.

Isn't it ironic the very quality that was seen as Don Brash's appeal three years ago when he rolled Bill English is now seen as the reason he had to go. When he strode out of the Development Bank the fact that he was not a politician in the accepted sense was all good. Now his inability or refusal to transform himself into a devious, scheming, dishonest denizen of the back alleys of Wellington means he cannot continue. There was an interview with a hideously smug Cullen on the box last night who opined that Don was never cut out for Parliament right from the word go - the arrogant little p*ick. The view now is that Key (and he will be the new National leader, make no mistake) will suffer the same fate. If that means he will continue to espouse sensible policy, tell the truth and present himself as you would expect a leader to do then I hope he does suffer the same fate . If it means the measure of his success is how close he can ape the behaviour of the likes of Pond Scum then this country really has no hope.

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