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Thursday, April 7, 2011

Penny-pinching Bill gives generously

That plastic waka's an embarrassment to us all!
What were those involved thinking? Could they have come up with a 'Maori artefact' more tacky than a 'tupperwaka'?
Aside from the dodgy dealings surrounding the 'gift' from John Key to Pita Sharples in the form of this plastic bead boat, Bill English's comment that the Government's penny-pinching in other areas did not extend to the Rugby World Cup point to some seriously stupid priority setting.
He waka kirihou?
He Kaawanatanga kirihou!

8 comments:

Peter said...

John boy and Pita have cooked up a pile of something smelly here...this is one of the dumbest ideas I have seen in a long time.
The end result will be a plastic white elphant of very big proportions...
I like Pita normally but this is just dopey.
Yes indeed Johnny and Bill are sending all the wrong signals...soon they will run out of money then what?

robertguyton said...

Borrow?
Borrow?
Borrow?
(Stole those from the Nats' 'Book of Clever Schemes and Popular Plans'.)

Anonymous said...

Agree. This stinks of a deal to shore up Pita's vote in his under-threat electorate. (As well as being a plastic-tiki-tacky-tuppa-waka). Priorities eh?

robertguyton said...

You'd think this toy boat was a 'nice to have' that we could do without, as Bill is so often telling us, but no, it's as vital as accomodation for the Canterbury earthquake refugees apparently.
How do Bill and John sleep at night?

Anonymous said...

They sleep very well, in mansion's, second homes and castles/luxary hotels no doubt.

Dutchie Down South said...

Although I'm not in favour of this whole plastic waka pavillion idea, it seems a little bit rich from Shane Jones to comment...first he was the one using tax payer funded "plastic" for totally orther purposes and secondly, we didn't hear Labour winching when they pored thirty million dollars into the American Cup.

robertguyton said...

I 'winced' when they did Dutchie. Jones' misbehaviour will provide material for the Right for many a month, won't it, but this plastic waka gift from Key to the hapu in Sharples' electorate is kinda sad and not a little revealing, don't you think?
The Maori Party are in trouble and National will be pouring everything they can into keeping them afloat (waka allusion there).

Shane Pleasance said...

No, the expensive plastic waka which we cannot afford is perfectly fitting.