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Friday, June 1, 2012

In which Trotter pins English and lauds the Green man

Chris Trotter casts Budget author, Bill English as a leech, most graphically:

" Mr English must be cast as an Eighteenth Century quack, whose only answer to his patient’s declining health is to “bleed him, bleed him, bleed him and then bleed him some more”. The same leech-craft that is killing Europe, is being touted by Mr English and the Prime Minister as our own unfortunate country’s sovereign cure."

He then turns on a limelight beneath Russel Norman's feet, to illuminate the figure who may be the only one on the stage with any idea of whose line it is anyway:

" Only the Green’s Russel Norman shows the slightest sign of possessing the Nietzsche/Douglas spirit. He, unlike Mr Parker, will not bow down to the deficit idol. The Greens co-leader simply refuses to go on heaping sacrificial victims (beneficiaries, public servants, the sick, students) upon the corpse-strewn altar of “Returning the Government’s Books to Surplus by 2014/15”.
Given the chance, I believe Dr Norman would cast back the curtains and throw open the windows of New Zealand’s economic sick-room. With the highest expectations of his fellow New Zealanders’ recuperative powers, he shows them a vista of blue skies and green fields, and invites them to get out of bed."

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

Of course an old Trot like Trotter would have all the economic answers to cure our woes. They work so well for Cuba, Korea and the USSR. Shining his light on Wed Wussel can't really be a good thing.

The real reason he is upset with Blinglish is he's still spending like crazy following Liarbours policy settings.

BTW tax and spend has never brought on sustainable economic growth. The higher a Nations taxation burden the less likely it is to succeed economically.

Paranormal

Shunda barunda said...

Robert, I'm not saying Bill isn't an idiot, but Trotter? well we know he is an idiot, a cliché, and the darling of a screwed up main stream media.

The world has been spending to much, Trotter says that isn't the problem, what do you think about that Robert? do you think the world hasn't been spending to much?

Shunda barunda said...

The Greens economic policy and especially social policy are actually (almost unbelievably) based on increased unsustainable economic growth!

I challenged them on this recently and even BJ conceded that their "living wage" policy would indeed do this.

The Greens don't even understand sustainability let alone the economy, this is why Trotter loves them so much - they are just so heart warmingly "red".

Towack said...

The only person that cried when the Berlin Wall came down was that plonker Trotter, and perhaps most the green party and looking how you love to support this relic from the communist era, maybe you cried too. So I guess it wasnt just one person that cried, it was all you people who expect someone who has worked hard for their income to give it away to plonkers who want to run around the Nth Island bush pretending to be war heros when really they are just bludgers running around the bush.
What a rant

robertguyton said...

Nice team-tag attack on...the man, boys and girls!
No challenge to what was said, as quoted here, but your creaking old prejudices came puffing and blowing to the fore. Impressive arguments from you all. Well done that curmudgeonly Conservative team. You get an extra wine biscuit with tonight's milo.

Anonymous said...

And a continuation from yourself RG. help yourself to an additional wine biscuit as well.

No comment on Greens spend and hope policies? Economic growth is debilitated by high taxation.

Or my comment that Trotter is really upset that National is continuing Liarbours high spending policies?

Paranormal

robertguyton said...

None of the Green's policies are named 'Spend and Hope', paranormal. You are, I think, confused.

Shunda barunda said...

But the Greens policies are very revealing none the less, more red than "green" and completely incompatible with a sustainable message (hence Trotters adoration).

Wealth redistribution at the expense of the environment.
Bloody super.

robertguyton said...

How 'at the expense of the environment', Shunda?

Towack said...

all I hear is blah blah blah

robertguyton said...

That's all anyone can hear, Towack, when they have their fingers in their ears.

Shunda barunda said...

How 'at the expense of the environment', Shunda?

http://blog.greens.org.nz/2012/05/25/the-living-wage-and-the-zero-budget/#comment-444006

Bioneer said...

Robert as a youf (or 'youth' as they said in the old days) I expect to come to your blog and find edgy commentary. Instead you let your comment-ors fret about Communism. I'll reset the date under system preferences to 2012 and see if that fixes the problem.

Shunda barunda said...

Perhaps, Bioneer, when people actually come up with original solutions to the issues we face, we could start having the conversations you desire.

I'm game, but are you? really?

Let me have it if you are.

Shunda barunda said...

Just as I thought

robertguyton said...

I imagine he is, Shunda, but as a seriously busy yoof, he's probably not checked back on this thread. I'd forgotten too, to check it. Sometimes, the pace of new threads leaves some high and dry. I must try to slow down a little.

Towack said...

Try the Sesame Street blog Bioneer, might be more your agegroup