I was out with “She who must be obeyed” last night and saw the perfect metaphor for life in New Zealand.
We were out buying a couple of pizzas for tea, in Taita.
Most of the shops are closed up with steel shutters. Around the corner is the Walter Nash Stadium, echoing past glories of the Labour Party. In the main shopping area, there is an electorate office for Chris Hipkins, Labour MP for the area. And leaning against the front of this office was a down and outer with his legs splayed apart, a styrofoam cup on the footpath, begging.
In the High Street there is a passing parade of new diesel buses, and on the streetside are election hoardings, including the well known “Let’s keep moving”.
Buggered businesses, past glories, petrochemical public transport, promises of some sort of future and the reality of daily life under Labour.
Oh, what a juxtaposition, what a perfect metaphor, what irony!
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