Or maybe they do. Maybe they have had enough of being the Government and want out as they certainly seem to be behaving as the Government with a death wish.
The Dental Nurse showed us all yesterday her 'Graduation with Honours' certificate from the Michael Cullen Arrogant Ratbag Academy. Her behaviour is beyond belief until you realise from what base this comes. She is a person who has no relevant training at all for the jobs she does and is in position only because of her slavish adherence to a flawed ideology. Anyone with an ounce of commonsense (and don't forget she is the patron saint of this commodity so lacking in her own behaviour) could have worked out that now was not such a flash time to increase the cost of running a truck. So we are off to a good start. Now how can we make this less palatable? I know we'll announce it is coming into force in eight hours time - that'll really piss people off. So far so good. She has the truckies in Gallic mood with plans to park the semi trailers all over the major conurbations tomorrow. If I had a big rig I would be right there with them.
Then this morning we see how she managed to get the oak leaf clusters on her Arrogance Medal. She is 'outraged' that the truckies would have the temerity to even contemplate such action. How dare they argue with her? She is a Government Minister. She can do what she likes, when she likes and with accountability to no one. She had the fact that she is supposed to be an elected representative beaten out of her with the Clark stick long ago. According to training she starts of with typical politician's weasel words. She did not promise to give the industry a month's warning of any future increase she only said she would introduce (not pass) legislation that would allow her to give a month's notice. Unfortunately (Tui ad) this increase came along before she had the opportunity so to do. Had the trucking firms had such notice they would have all gone out and bought their mileage at the cheaper rate - and that would never do would it?
She amplifies and explains her 'outrage' with these words "If trucking companies disrupt the travel plans of motorists and other commuters on Friday morning, as they threaten, the only people who suffer will be all those New Zealanders who pay their fair share of roading costs through petrol excise duty." If there is any truck driver who drives his vehicle tax free would he please make him self known to the class. She also glosses over the small matter of the massive increases in GST the gummint has garnered in recently due to the price of fuel going through the roof. If she needs more dosh she can have that.
As an aside have you noted how the phrase 'New Zealander' is used by the wastrels in Wellington. It is slipped into a statement when the user wants to identify with the man in the street in a sympathetic way. 'Ordinary New Zealanders' is a slightly more refined and more meritorious sub species. The Mongrel Mob are never referred to as a group of New Zealanders (which they are) are they? Nor yet boy racers, serial rapists or fraudsters.
Hell, Amalgam Girl is hideous - but I suppose no more so than the rest of her colleagues who are currently wrecking this country.
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