Ah, that's better. Normal service has been resumed.
Page 2 of the Herald has half devoted to trees and half to Rudman. The trees bit is up to standard being a classic much ado about nothing. Two arborial specimens have been absent for a whole year (God, how did we survive) and are now to be replaced by a 'developer' (evil toads those developers) at his own cost (north of $6000 as I recall) but the argument is whether they should have been removed in the first place. If all this wasn't so tragic it would be funny. Auckland is the most infrastructure deficient city in the civilised world and we worry about this cobblers?
Speaking of infrastructure Rudman tries to get upto flying speed over Telecom's laughbale apology for a broadband service but doesn't quite get to take off velocity. I will make a renewed effort not to read him this year as he makes me ill.
Further evidence that the 'silly season' is over and the real silliness can begin is provided by a couple of poilitical speeches and the PM saying something about Philip Field. It is 'unlikely' that he will stand for Parliament again. Great command of the bleeding obvious right there. I am caught in two minds as to when I want this waste of space's head on a plate. Part of me says now (or preferably last year) as his continuing presence propping up this Government and drawing a salary for no work is totally abhorrant and part of me says let him hang on as long as possible. This will then ensure that his eventual demise is as close to the next election as possible and will, therefore, inflict maximum damage on Labour in the polls. I suspect we will get the worst of both worlds. He will continue to take my money for a while yet and then will come a gutser too far out from the polls to cause maximum disruption.
Timing is everything. A lot of the criticism of John Key's less than blood curdling effort yesterday is that it lacks concrete policy. Indeed it does and that would be on purpose I would say. Far too early for that sort of thing. Put out policy now and it has far too long to to go tits up or, more importantly, people will become bored with it.
Winston is a Dagge isn't he? He was speaking as Foreign Minister and not as leader of NZ First. I want to be able to do this. 'I am speaking as the Pope and not as Mickey Mouse today' or 'Tonight, Matthew, I will be Atilla the Hun'. The possibliites are endless and would give a whole new meaning to life. Anyway Winnie gives a speech that must have had his head of Government cringeing over her feta. How does he get away with it? He stands up in Orewa and chastises those who would run down the Evil Empire whilst the headmistress has to try and put a brave face on things and say 'I only gave the speech a cursory glance' whilst all the time sticking pins in her George W doll.
Yes, the asylum has reopened for business and the loonies are in charge.
No comments:
Post a Comment