Written By: - Date published: 4:49 pm, December 17th, 2008 - 39 comments
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I haven’t commented on the maiden speeches yet (we’re doing some analysis later) but I can’t let this stand. Aaron Gilmore, the bottom-ranked National List MP who got in by 39 votes, is having his maiden speech. He started by remembering growing up in a state house, going to school, a teacher giving him some lunch. He said the lessons he learned were hard work and that compulsion is bad.
Umm, no lesson that strong public services, like state housing and education, are essential to give young people a chance in life?
No. Instead, he’s an MP for a party that is committed to cutting those services. Now, he’s rich he’s determined to pull the ladder up after him. Well, that’s gratitude for you.
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Scoopit!
Indeed. How dare he escape the poverty cycle and do well for himself.
Dirty, Filthy little tory!
Sarah’s comment is evidence to why Trolls are slowly becoming extinct – too dumb to reproduce.
Twisted – you think the help his family received from the state played a part in that? Ah… do you think at all? Jury’s out thus far, reasonable doubt and all that.
[lprent: Plus the secret surgery I perform when they're not looking.]
Twisted, you missed the point. Purposely, I believe.
Yes he’s done well for himself by moving up the ladder. But to do so he depended on certain state services (education, housing etc…) that he doesn’t seem to acknowledge.
Now he stands for a party that, in the past, have been determined to take these hand-ups away from people, or at least make them a lot less effective, hence the “pulling the ladder up after him” remark.
When I read the heading “Gratitude” I thought for a moment you were talking about Cullen & Clark, the toxic duo, who have left behind a weak and ailing NZ economy (let alone the not disclosed holes in it).
Shame on socialist Labour for not being honest.