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Recently I celebrated my birthday; a certain milestone was reached and, despite my aversion to ever spending money if it can be avoided, decided to splash out and host a party attended by various lifelong friends.
Lots of my friends rather liked some of the obscure music which was playing; one song in particular ended up being played over and over – “Another Fool” by a UK band called Voyager. The song was on an album they released in 2006 which nobody except me bought. There is a line in the song which goes “Once in a while a dreamer has to face reality…“
How apt that seems when reading an embarrassing interview with Simon Bridges in the NZ Herald where he wonders if New Zealand was ready for a Maori Prime Minister. There is a long-standing tradition amongst failed politicians of blaming everybody else for their failures; never themselves.
Bridges had two and a bit years as opposition leader. He was opposing our weakest possible opponent; a silly girl with an IQ of 2½ who stole an election and was utterly incompetent. Had it been me I would have publicly dubbed her “Veruca Salt” (what I always call her), made fun of her 1001 shortcomings, and taken great delight in constantly highlighting her endless list of failures. It wouldn’t have taken much to have broken her spirit at Question Time; she’d have been on Prozac within a month. And then turn the volume up to 11, never giving her a moment of respite thereby turning her into a nervous wreck.
I’d have hammered away at other matters using Parliamentary privilege – the youth camp, sexual assaults, hush money payouts, ministerial corruption, the actor, the occupation at Mangere, the Police Commissioner and other Labour lackeys – claim Ardern “put them up to it” each time (further breaking her spirit) and name and shame any and every Labour apparatchik to instill fear in the left-wingers.
However, Simon Bridges was too weak and cowardly to do any of that; hand-wringing; scared of his own shadow – (“oh mummy mummy I can’t say any of that...”) – and so he is now an historical footnote. He blames the general public for his failures rather than himself; apparently everyone else is a racist (what else?). We’re not ready for a Maori Prime Minister? If that is so Simon, why was Winston the preferred PM in the opinion polls 35 years ago? (Whoops! foiled again!). Sometimes you have to face reality and accept you’re just, well, a loser.
