New Green pages - yuck

Yes, RH, thank you for that information which by now (four days later) falls into the 'great command of the bleeding obvious' category. I, amongst others, accused mainstream politicians of grandstanding over this whole sorry affair but it would appear that our Brendan got in first and is showing the dog with a bone stamina at which his sort is very adept. There is a truckload about his latest tirades in the Herald this morning including the 'affront' or 'insult' or whatever to the twenty year old son at being interviewed in English. This despite his attending tertiary education which, I assume, is the Samoan Language Nuclear Physics and Business Administration course run by one of our so called Universities. Brendan even manages to remind us that he and his ilk are victims. Yawn. I and the rest of the real world stopped listening to this sort of bollocks decades ago. Brendan should go to the opinion page where he can drool over a picture of Michael Joseph Savage taken in 1938.

This image accompanies another Marxist diatribe lamenting that the current administation is too far right leaning in changing the basic tenet of 'Welfare' in the Peoples Republic of Aoteoroa. This piece is very well written in asmuch as it is not quite so bad to get you giving up on it after two sentences (more of this later). It only gets really nauseating after you are commited and might as well finish it off. Even the worst Sherlock Holmes story (and they are not all bloody wonderful) is well enough written to keep you going to the end. So it is with this piece written by two academics (what a surprise) about how the change from 'true welfare' to 'welfare in sheep's clothing' is being foisted upon us in the guise of a BIll to be passed in Parliament that very few have noticed or even heard of. (And by the way, how much of that goes on? A lot more than you or I dare imagine I would venture.) The day of the serious handout is over. People will actually have to do something to get money. The bottom of A11 is worth reading if only to wake you up as to how the truly deranged think.

Reading the Herald on Mondays just got a whole lot quicker as I refuse, I flatly refuse, to read the new regular feature. This is a double page 'Green Pages' spread somewhere near the front. Now this really is something that is so bad you have to give up after two words let alone two sentences - but there are two pages of it. They have mercifully tinted the paper green to warn that an assault to the senses and sensibilty are perilously close. The only bit I dared read was a link to a Government website where you can calculate your own personal carbon footprint. This below an image of a footprint in the sand. What have I done to deserve such cruel and unnatural punishment so early in the day, so early in the week? What sin have I committed to earn such an emetic at Marmite soldier time? Whatever it is I promise I won't do it again but please don't ruin my Mondays with this cobblers.

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