The BFD | To Trust Winston, This Is What I’ll Need

Ex-MPs Peters and Hide have come out over the last few days to show their support for the Freedom Convoy 2022 protesters, joining ongoing support from Ex-MP Matt King of Northland.

Matt has been opposing the mandates, draconian rules etc. for a while but I find it interesting that Hide has come out. Things must be bad within the ACT Party for him to do that. They have certainly lost my vote unless they get rid of the charlatan David Seymour, so maybe they are worried about more of the same happening.

Winston Peters of course was always going to use this to make hay. You could just about set your clock by him. But he’s not wrong in what he is saying; actually none of them are, in my opinion.

Can we trust Winston? Of course not, but it doesn’t mean he shouldn’t be listened to. Much like support for Brian Tamaki, no I don’t approve of the way he makes a living but I do approve of some of the good that gets done in his name. It’s hard. With the exception of Matt King, none of these people are ones that I would like to sit down and have a beer with (well OK, maybe Winnie because he would be hilarious while liquored up I reckon), but should we be ignoring their message, just because we don’t really like them? I do tend to do just that, maybe I need to change?

I was at a Christmas do with David Seymour a while back. I had never taken a shine to him in the past with all his childish grinning, twerking etc and quickly found that my impressions weren’t wrong. He sat in the corner for an hour or so like a pre-pubescent boy at his first school disco. He made no attempt to interact with people there and those who took the time to speak with him left him alone pretty quickly. I wasn’t impressed and I could tell he certainly wasn’t leadership material. I didn’t even bother chatting to him.

Would Winston have been any better in that situation? I would say most likely yes. Like him, loathe him, or just put up with him, at least he knows how to be a statesman and to work the room.

Working the room is exactly what he is doing now but how can he regain trust from people? There have been so many ‘bottom lines’ from him that his arse must look like he’s been sitting naked on a kwila grip-tread deck for a week.

Well Winston, for me to take you seriously, here is what I would need. I suspect many others might be the same.

A full, honest and heartfelt apology for installing Ardern and co
An admission that you were wrong to do that
An admission that capitalism is not dead and you were wrong about that and that socialism is never the way ahead
A full, written promise that you will not side with Labour or the Greens again as they are demonstrably hopeless and trying to destroy our way of living
An apology for your part in the gun confiscation.
A written guarantee that you will kill off He Puapua and Three Waters and the Maori Seats.

I don’t even care about seeing the coalition agreement; just admit that you were completely and utterly wrong.

If he was to do these things, some people might give him another chance. Would I? I don’t know. National seem to be a lost cause, Luxon, Bishop et al are idiots as far as I can make out and ACT are just a bunch of duplicitous losers under Seymour so if you want my vote, come and get it.

Photoshopped image credit Boondecker. The BFD.

While I have his ear (and I’m sure he reads The BFD), maybe Winston could show that he is braver than all the other cucks in parliament and actually go and see if the protesters might like to listen to him, or better yet, actually listen to them! I imagine he would be roundly booed, but he’s a big boy: I’m sure he can handle it.

Will we see Luxon, Seymour, Ardern, Hipkins, Robertson et al do the same? Will they brave the dancing hare-krishna’s, the breastfeeding mums, the tradies, the businessmen and all the other people that Seymour said this about?