Poor, disadvantaged Joel Cosgrove and Heleyni Pratley of the Wellington Workers Party are up in arms that they have been trespassed from Victoria University for protesting fee rises, in a press statement entitled Victoria University: No Free Speech Here Thanks.
Wait… hold up a second.
This weekend Daniel and Jackson will embark upon a journey to the undoubted arsehole of New Zealand: New Plymouth—no offense Palmerston North, of course. It was close.
Some of our readers may remember recently, when Jackson spearheaded an earnest campaign to win the seat of Mount Albert from his stronghold in Wellington. Resoundingly ignored by the mainstream media, the campaign was still a great success, with almost tens of Mount Albert residents swinging in behind Wood.
An avid reader of AbsoluteGenius pointed out this remarkable resemblance to me earlier.
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There is no interesting news in New Zealand. There is nothing that excites me. No news writers that make me feel passionate about news.
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In the run-up to last month’s indicative, non-binding referendum, Daniel and I presented a third option to the box-tickers of NZ: defacing the ballot before sending it back to the electoral commission.
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Oh Green Party, why do you goad me so?
So often I want to agree with you, really I do. You used to support an emissions tax over an ETS – quite rightly – then cast that into the wind for some reason as far as I can tell.
But luckily you kept some of your wits about you, and are calling for some fairly obvious changes to the ETS, with regard to intensity based allocations, price caps, etc. Again, you are right on calling for these changes – thank you.
But then you go and manage, in the space of one sentence, to turn off all the goodwill you’ve built up as I read your statement.
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I know I haven’t been the most regular of writers. I don’t stick to my diet of blogging branflakes like many other bloggers—shitting out gems of blog genius every other hour. To prove just how useless I am at blogging, here is a blog I started about three years ago before I went to China on the VUW politics field trip.
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The same online persona indignantly posted this:
Rather than address what I said, you lay into me with insults
As (link now broken) this:
@suebr Listen Sue, YOU are very DANGEROUS, YOU are ANTI DEMOCRATIC, and YOU need to leave NZ, You are insult to the democratic process!
Just when you thought that refinancing scammers were already claiming miracles, you get this beautiful piece of spam:
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