Howling at it

Amalgam Girl has really lost the plot. She wanders around south Auckland to get first hand experience of where New Zealand's youth are wasting each other wholesale. For starters what bloody good is that going to do? Surely she has seen a social class five street before. I can't imagine it being any different to walk down than many others dotted around the countryside. I would assume there would be some unregistered un-WoFfed 1980's vintage Jap imports, a spot of graffiti, a bit of dog doo doos, a few stray kids, a couple of unpleasant looking dogs, some washing, piles of inorganic rubbish - all the usual props. I'll admit I'm guessing here but that is what they look like on the TV news. What Annette King hoped to achieve by actually going there I know not. I bet she didn't plan pissing the residents off quite as much as she did though. They are already not in the best of moods with a few of their nearest and dearest lying in boxes courtesy of some unintelligible (well to me anyway) violence. The last thing they need is a Government Minister wandering around.

She then compounds her blunder by opening her mouth. The current spate of homicidal violence is all the fault of the full moon and the hot summer. Even I am gobsmacked at the idiocy of such a statement. Was she combing the palms of her hands while talking such rot? I suppose the truth is so unpalatable that even such an utterance of a total dement is preferable.

The truth?

• The Justice Ministry says their youth offending team system is a shambles of confusion.
• The Reducing Youth Offending Programme, run with CYF and Corrections, collapsed after offending rates had not reduced after three years.
• Labour’s Ministers Group on the Youth Offending Strategy did not meet for three years.
• We are still waiting for the national truancy register they promised in 1999 and 2002.

But you can't stand up amongst Labour's core voters and say that can you?

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