Conor English, brother of Dipton's Bill and the Fed's Hamish and goodness knows how many other 'Engli' is having a wee rant about people like you and I who are willing to speak up about such things as mining on Conservation land. He doesn't think much of us and says we are looking for a 'free lunch'.
Conor even used hackneyed phrases stolen from his brother's list of dog-whistle phrases in a way that you'd have to assume was intentional and designed to add to a programme of redesigning public perception.
Don't like the Government's attacks on personal liberties?
You're after a free lunch.
Don't want Stewart Island dug up by mining companies?
You're wanting your lunch for free.
Want to keep New Zealand free of genetic engineering?
Free lunch.
See. It's easy to slight your opponents with a tidy catchphrase.
Trouble is, Conor is representing Federated Farmers and this kind of drivel reflects badly on them.
Perhaps Bill thinks his brothers can say the things he wants to say and avoid the political criticism that would
come if he voiced the same red-necked opinions.
3 comments:
What a pillick!
What I find amazing is that these blinkered arogant 'mine! mine! mine!' types always bark on about how we are exploiting them!
I am getting no free lunch, you are getting no free lunch, but these b@stards want more 'lunch' than everybody else combined!.
They want our lunch, they want our kids lunch, they want our grand kids lunch, and they want it all now! now!! now!!!$$$
We often hear how wrong a 'sense of entitlement' is for those on welfare, and I think it is immoral for an able bodied person not to work (more for their own good than anything). But I think it is far, far more immoral for a selfish, greedy, (even if hard working) person to be driven by a sense of entitlement to exploit the worlds resources in an unsustainable way.
Those on welfare may be receiving a free lunch, but these b@stards are stealing every bodies lunch!!
You're both welcome to my place for a free lunch :-) Who said lunches had to be paid for? ;-)
But Shunda, Conor's a powerful man with important brothers and influential friends.
You're not giving him the respect he deserves.
Or are you???
Wildcrafty - your generosity makes Conor English's warblings sound even more churlish than they did at first reading.
Wouldn't it be something to invite him to a free lunch, so that he could meet with some of these malcontents he so readily dismisses in his rant.
I hope to take you up on your kind offer btw and extend the same to you.
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