According to Rod Emmerson, cartoonist for the ‘Ferald’ (NZ Herald), Labour is a dead parrot.
Dead Parrot is a reference to the ‘Dead Parrot’ sketch featuring John Cleese and a dead parrot which the vendor refuses to acknowledge is dead. A bit like Tova refusing to believe the obvious in recent polls about the Labour Party.
Labour is so much a dead parrot that Kieran McAnulty has snuck in voting for 16 and 17-year-olds in local body elections. No doubt it won’t stop there and will be pushed for General elections. There has been no mention of this voting age change in the left wing media.
Don’t you get a feeling of ‘deja vu’ with the Comeback Kingmaker Winston Peters achieving more than 5% in most recent polls thereby passing the eligibility threshold for donning the ermine?
David Seymour of Act has already said he won’t work with Winston, and his hoarding of a smiling Winston Peters in a smart three-piece suit with words taken from The Who song, Won’t Get Fooled Again seems to be an own goal as most think it’s an advertisement for NZ First.
Had David Seymour included the whole sentence from The Who song it would have read, “Just like yesterday I get down on my knees and pray we don’t get fooled again”. Seymour should be praying against the Xennials. Yes, the word is in the Oxford Dictionary. They are the generation squeezed in between the X Generation and the Millennials and anecdotally they are voting NZ First. The ‘Xennials’ would barely have been at voting age when Peters first came to power and are in their forties now. The Xennials are also known as the Star Wars Generation due to the trilogy of that era. The Who song was also recorded in the Xennial era at Shepperton Studios in 1978.
Columnist Claire Trevett says voters are looking for a middle ground and will find it in Winston. I see Peters as Darth Vader. Black is the NZ First colour just as it was for Darth Vader in Star Wars. One of Darth Vader’s lines was “I’m here to put you back on schedule”.
Winston Peters is a populist candidate and he‘s no dummy at picking salient issues of the day. He is not just appealing to the pension pullers but to the anti-globalists, and believes in Nationalism with a capital N, thereby following an overseas trend. He also wants an inquiry into Covid, which will please the Freedom crowd.
Chippy might suffer the same fate as Ardern, with pop-up demonstrations.
His appearance at the Otara Market had to be cut short due to the presence of Vision NZ backed by Destiny Church. They obviously did not believe the prominent Labour slogan “In it for You”. The problem is no one is quite sure who the ‘You’ is.
When the thoughtcrime laws are applied there will be even less chance of finding out.
The Otara markets are a bastion of the Pasifika community. Act seems determined to send a few firecrackers their way with the aid of Guy Fawkes. With the recent hurricane fires on Maui, there seem to be more than enough bonfires to go around.
Below is The Who song whose title now forms Acts hoarding slogan “Don’t get fooled again”. This could easily apply to Act of course.
