Polity: A wilting rose
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
tired of 'rent a crowd' - you can own this one!
yearning wistfully for a bit of rabble-rousing
https://www.rebelpress.org.nz/publications/rabble-rousers-merry-pranksters
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Rich of Observationz, in reply to
In more recent times,, Nandor was obliged to wear a suit, such as the rather dapper number here:
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whereas more mainstream MPs turn up in football shirts, or that stoopid yellow jacket Hide wore:
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I just think “Business Attire” is the wrong thing to wear in Parliament, it ain’t no stinkin’ business and we don’t need no stinkin’ badgers.
Singlet and shorts may be a little too slack though. -
Maybe the MP should just have to provide evidence that they were engaged in the business in question before entering politics. I doubt Curran had many starts for the Highlanders.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
I just think “Business Attire” is the wrong thing to wear in Parliament,
I thought it was all about business satire...
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Gregor Ronald, in reply to
"Trougher" is a Slaterism, but it only applies to the left. National list MPS like Kanwaljit Bakshi or Joanne Hayes (did I hear someone ask "who"?) are never described that way.
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
The worst of the "trougher" bunch are Generation Rentier - those who relentlessly preach the free market, but are quite happy to use the power of "Big Government" when the free market threatens to disrupt their rentier monopoly licence to print money. The hostility to the Auckland Unitary Plan is a case in point. As is the Koch Bros' attempts to discredit electric cars to protect their oil-drilling bread-&-butter.
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
To me that is the distinction of voting conservatively (which can actually either be right or left) for fear of losing what you have, and voting radically (which can either be right or left) because you have nothing to lose.
Voting conservatively left: "I fear losing my job."
Voting conservatively right: "I fear losing my house and my public safety."
Voting radically left: "I have nothing to lose because the banksters took it all away from me!"
Voting radically right: "I have nothing to lose because the blacks/browns/reds/pinks/greens/yellows took it all away from me!"
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