Few sandwiches short of a picnic

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1. vto 1

   14 May 2009 at 8:45 pm

   ho ho ho bwilliant
2. The Voice of Reason 2

   14 May 2009 at 8:48 pm

   Let them eat cake!
3. inpassing 3

   14 May 2009 at 8:54 pm

   eddie,

   do I take it your laissez faire renders the concoction overbaked more than half-baked… ?
4. Quoth the Raven 4

   14 May 2009 at 9:01 pm

   It’s a bit rich for someone from Act to criticise Labour on central planning considering the centralisation they’re supporting in Auckland. Or just the fact that the dottering old statist works in central government.
5. Pascal's bookie 5

   14 May 2009 at 9:06 pm

   It’s still fewer stupid than his plan to simplify the tax system by establishing a parallel one that people could opt in to.

   If the Nat’s really wants to be doing the cutting of the wasteful spending they should have a look at what ACT is producing with that funding from their coalition agreement (pge3)

   Whatever happened to that funding, anyone heard? Has it been handed over? If so, who paid it? Parliamentary services? Ministerial? PM’s office?

   Perhaps English could appoint a purchase overseer to have a wee lookie at the outputs.

   In any case it’s a fuckin rort. It seems to be for research outside of any ministerial responsibilities, and above what they can get as MP’s. How is that not taxpayer funding of the ACT party? Or is it National party funds? Which makes it seem to be a flat out bribe of the “you give us dosh, we give you C&S” variety. All very murky maties.

   But anyhoo, if the ACT’ies can’t get funding to do their own damn research they should hold a bloody cake stall. But like Key, I wouldn’t Douglas near the kitchen.
   • gingercrush 5.1

     14 May 2009 at 10:05 pm

     Isn’t that the same deal that Labour struck with the Greens though?
     • Pascal's bookie 5.1.1

       14 May 2009 at 10:26 pm

       I don’t know ginger, is it?

       From memory the Labour Green deal was basically a few policy tidbits in return for abstention on C&S.

       I don’t recall any extra-constitutional ‘leadership council’ deciding the terms about an unspecified amount of money from unspecified sources being given to the Greens to contract some research to find out what they think.

       can’t see anything like that, but I may have missed it:

       http://www.beehive.govt.nz/sites/all/files/Green.pdf
6. QoT 6

   14 May 2009 at 9:15 pm

   Oh that’s just sad. Someone on the ACT team thinks they’re being really, really cutting-edge on this one.
   • cassidy 6.1

     14 May 2009 at 9:22 pm

     In fairness to Roger that would be quite cutting edge writing for the 60s.
7. Nick 7

   14 May 2009 at 9:33 pm

   Has anybody noticed Rodney Hide looks more and more like Benito Mussolini every day. This looks very much like a Benito recipe too….Rodders has however lost a lot of weight, perhaps Wodga’s copies of Benito’s recipes are unpalatable….
   • cassidy 7.1

     14 May 2009 at 9:36 pm

     I completely agree Nick. At this point the only difference is that Mussolini was ultimately brought to justice. Perhaps history will repeat itself?
     • vto 7.1.1

       14 May 2009 at 9:48 pm

       history always repeats itself. which is just as well and a bit of a bummer …
8. mickysavage 8

   14 May 2009 at 9:46 pm

   He forgot many important ingredients such as

   Freedom
   Culture
   Weekends where you improve yourself
   Community contributions
   Study of the classics
   Walking in the bush
   Happiness

   It is strange but with his ingredients you get a rather flat lopsided cake. Add in the above and things start to look a lot better.
   • Daveski 8.1

     14 May 2009 at 10:10 pm

     He also forgot to mention that you could always sit back, bitch about the people in the kitchen, but then demand your share of the cake 🙂
     • Lew 8.1.1

       14 May 2009 at 11:09 pm

       Daveski, when those in the kitchen look like they might end up burning the house down, complaining that they should get out and piss off seems a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

       L
9. DeepRed 9

   14 May 2009 at 10:12 pm

   “history always repeats itself. which is just as well and a bit of a bummer ”
   … The first time as tragedy, the second as farce.
10. ak 10

    14 May 2009 at 10:31 pm

    It’s like a Farside cartoon for the blind: “Surprised at his reincarnation, Adolf decided to try stand-up.”
    • the sprout 10.1

      15 May 2009 at 2:02 pm

      that is very funny ak 🙂
11. ak 11

    14 May 2009 at 10:45 pm

    Publishing op for some young entrepreneur here: “Oxy morons: a cringing chronology of right-wing humour”
12. jarbury 12

    15 May 2009 at 2:19 pm

    Maybe Roger got lost in the cook-book section of the parliamentary library?

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