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:
I feel I should make it clear at the start that I’m not a big fan of Sue Bradford – but surely people must see the irony in the fact that people are campaigning for legalised smacking on the basis that that violence is appropriate (no judgement being passed as to whether I agree, that’s immaterial), whilst simultaneously these same people are calling for Bradford to be assasinated.
On behalf both Jackson and myself, thanks to the more than ten thousand brave souls who truly and royally messed up their ballot in this retarded referendum. I thoroughly endorse the comments made by a close friend and far more intelligent man than myself, who, upon seeing the victory to the “no” vote, commented only:
I guess this means John Key has to remove the part of the crimes act which says “it is illegal to smack as part of good parental correction”
People We Angered