Politicians need insult training days
11.09.11
Our politicians have become so dull that sheep now count
them when they can't sleep. John Lapsley reckons our
politicians need a training programme in the art of the
insult.
There is a threat more dire than the world financial crisis.
Unless something conjures a bunny from a hat, you and I are
to be bored to our deaths between October 24 and November 26.
The day after the World Cup final, we'll be hooked on to the
General Election machine. The tedium drip will be turned on,
and for the next 34 days they'll put all us poor puppies to
sleep.
Our politicians have become so dull that sheep now count them
when they can't sleep. "That's John, there's Phil, now Don,"
the sheep quietly mumble to their mothers. "Jump Rodney,
jump. Oh dear ... It's unlikely we'll see a battle of the
wits because neither side seems armed."
The last quarter-decent political insult we heard was from
Labour MP Damien O'Connor, who opined his party machine was
run by a "gaggle of gays". His leader, Phil Goff, immediately
waved the "inappropriate" card at him.
Source: Otago Daily Times