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11:15 am, April 29th, 2015 - 8 comments
Categories: john key, Minister for International Embarrassment, workers' rights -
Tags: aaron gilmore, harrasment, john key, ponytailgate, roger sutton
The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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yeah, like, at the end of..most reasonable new zillinders…pfffft.
His pall keyreeping over the land of hiijinks and horseplay and goodtimes.
Will no-one ride us of this flagrant beast?
Some women just can’t take a joke, don’t know how to have fun. Some women just need to chill the hell out. All this PC crap.
FFS Tracey, how would you like it if someone was to come into your work place & pull your hair everytime they entered your place of work???
I doubt very much that you would let it slide.
I suspect Tracey was employing sarcasm to make a point, Neil.
Funny isn’t that 3 pics can say as much as thousands of words and nail it.
Well done whoever!
Too ‘big’ to fail?
(And not even a ‘fast follower’ when it comes to higher standards it seems.)
I suspect the difference between Key and the other two is all about the state of the power dynamics in each case.
Gilmore was a political shrimp that could be usefully tossed onto the barbie.
Sutton had enemies in high places which made him increasingly vulnerable (by his own admission, he had been acting in the same ways for most of his career – another lover of ‘hijinks’, ‘horsing around’, etc. – yet that behaviour only proved fatal last year.)
John Key, by contrast, currently still has too many people gaining from and identifying with his electoral popularity to be able to leverage his limpet-like grip off the top spot.
Those with sufficient power (in Key’s case, popularity) can harass more or less at will, it seems.
As I said, too big to fail.
+1
That’s about it. One set of rules for the rich and powerful and another set for everyone else.
One of these three is not like the others sung a la Sesame Street circa 1990 (yes, I was parenting way back then and saw way too much children’s programming).
Short, concise and precise. Any fool should be able to get that message, lol.