Monday, December 9, 2013
Minto to accompany Key to Mandela funeral
Dimpost breaks the news!
"If Key takes John Minto to Mandela’s funeral it means swallowing the gigantic rat that Minto – who they regard as the epitome of left-wing idiocy – was completely right, and the National Party was completely wrong. So no trip for Minto."
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I was stunned to hear Jock Anderson say on the Panel today that, after reflecting on Mandela's example, he thought Minto could go, as it would show NZ had forgiven him for the disruption he caused in 1981. I texted National radio, I doubt I was the only one. Clearly Anderson hasn't grasped the fact that Minto was on the same side as Mandela! It's the pro-tour brigade who should be hoping for forgiveness.
The pro-tour crowd in 81 said politics and sport shouldn't mix. I've had 3 kids since then. When parenting we say 'hey kid, if you keep hitting Joey you can't play the game'. People, of all ages, don't change bad behaviour unless there are consequences. The SA apartheid supporters loved their rugby, when protesters caused a game to be cancelled they noticed. So did Mandela, he spoke of a ray of sunshine.
The fact Bolger would even consider going is bad enough. Thank goodness Mandela was a forgiving sort of person. No doubt many will conveniently forget their past remarks in order to cosy up to the rich and powerful. Karma.
The hollowness is starkly revealed by the light Mandela's memory brings.
That old saying applies to Key doesnt it.
"A shiver looking for a spine to run up"
At times like this he has such a chance to show something different but sadly no, the spots dont change.
He'd fight like a cornered rat for some causes though.
Just not the just ones.
The "Minto = correct vs. National Government = wrong" nexus is why Minto won't be invited.
Mr Key has blown away another chance to look statesman-like.
From today's Southland Times editorial:
he Government has made a weak, mean spirited decision not to include a representative from the 1981 Springbok tour protesters to help represent New Zealand at Nelson mandela's funeral...
Note the weasely passive language that Prime Minister John Key uses, 'The decision was made´ that the grouping was the right one, he says. Not a lot of accountability in that phrase, which was in fact he made after consulting with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
KDS alive and well I see.
It's spreading, paranormal, now the editor of the Herald has it. As an alternative, have you considered the possibility that the PM has made a remarkably bad decision?
Not at all AC. I think he's pretty much spot on. On this issue anyway.
So, is this how it is, paranormal?
A whole lot of people are saying the PM has made a bad decision on a particular matter.
It could be that they have all, collectively and suddenly, developed some kind of mental illness, and you refer to it as KDS. It's some form of mass mania, or hysteria, or something like that.
The alternative, that the PM genuinely has made a bad decision, is not correct.
It's pretty hard to argue against a thought process like that. I'd refer to it as "logic", rather than "a thought process", but I can't bring myself to do that.
After all, you may be right. I may be crazy.
I'm glad Key stuck with his Tory charter in choosing the team for the funeral.
I'd have been very deflated had he done the correct thing. It's so much more fun seeing him bugger-up simple things like this that piss off so many people. It's kind of Christmas-y, in a election-gifty way.
Au-contraire RG (&AC). I think he has done the 'correct' thing (that different perspective thing happening again).
A very wise former Labour minister (note the spelling - ie. pre-Helen) told me government is death by a thousand cuts. Every day you make decisions that alienate sectors of your support base. Key has done well in that the people he has 'pissed off' with this decision are not his voters anyway.
The KDS thing refers to your (collective) portraying Key as shifty, weaselly etc. It seems you are the minority at the moment with that view. The fervour with which you seem to attach alleged foibles to the man is something you might want to take a closer look at, professional help maybe.
Now if you'd said the same things about Aunty Hulun, then you would have been 'correct'. :-)
As well as the usual suspects, it appears he has offended the sensibilities of some newspaper editors too, paranormal. I'd venture that the people who read newspaper editorials are more likely to vote for National and its support parties than they are to either not vote, or vote for Labour and its support parties. Based on that, I'd say that this decision has reached Key's supporters, with framing applied, and now constitutes one or two of those thousand cuts you mentioned.
So that's 998 then, AC.
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