Cow shit 'n' bull shit

Two in a row that is and both good. The editor at the Southland Times is scribbling out good commentary of late and this pair, coming one after the other, shows his quality.
The first covers the cow sh*t which has in turn, covered our Southland roads over the recent 'Gypsy Day' period and highlights the ineffectiveness of voluntary accords made with farmers. Our local dairy men undertook to ensure that the roads didn't get splattered with cow sh*t during the shifting of stock that occurs on the 1st of June, but failed spectacularly to up-hold their end of the bargain.
'The assurance back then was that adoption of the code would eliminate the need for compulsory legislation.' reads the article. Where have we heard that before? (Clue: Clean Streams Accord or We will refuse to pick up their milk!) If their efforts there reflect their position with regard the wider environment and the management of the effluent/solid waste from their animals, it's little wonder we have disasters in the making, such as  the Waituna Lagoon, on our doorstep.

The second editorial, today's, covers assets sales and asks much the same questions (plus some more) as I posed in my post yesterday. Bill English's cynical 'insistence' that Kiwi's must buy shares in the companies they already own (wtf??) or foreign investors will. Twisted Bill, twisted.
The editorial begins: Why is the National Party leadership so hell-bent on selling off our state-owned assets, our extremely well-performing state-owned assets?" and doesn't do National any favours at all.
Elsewhere in the S Times, Mayor Shadbolt continues his tradition of sucking-up to John Key, because Key's funny, apparently. I'll not link to that tripe :-)