Tuesday, October 19, 2004
"United Future is just an ego-fuelled irrelevance"
My Right could not have said it better. In the 'Poll Comment' in this weeks NBR, Nick Bryant successfully describes United Future's contribution to the New Zealand political scene - bugger all. Peter Dunne is second only to Matt Robson in idiotically believing he has a genuine mandate.
I hated that bloody worm at the time, and I hate it now. I was in the audience for 'the debate' that somehow catapulted United Future from complete obscurity to relative obscurity. The debate proved nothing more than lefty types don't mind whooping it up in public - the worm followed the noise level from the audience precisely.
After asking what the good people of Ohariu Belmont see in this sanctimonious prat (Wigram folk seem to be a lost cause), Bryant closes his piece with this;
Finally, some advice that was passed down from a wise old fellow to his son in England early last century: "Son," he said, "never trust a man who waxes his moustache, orders soup at lunch, hunts south of the Thames, and, dinner dress aside, wears a bow tie."Hard to disagree.
In the absence of hard evidence not to, it's advice I intend to follow.
