SOLO-NZ Press Release: National's F-word

November 19, 2009

It's noteworthy that in John Key's speech to National Party supporters in Christchurch today, marking one year of National in office, the F-word doesn't appear once, says SOLO Principal Lindsay Perigo.

"The F-word is evidently never to be uttered in public, nor even in private. It denotes a quaint little outbreak of principle best confined to party constitutions which are then to be sealed, buried and forgotten," Perigo notes. "To utter the F-word in National circles is akin to breaking wind in church. The F-word is an expletive devoutly to be deleted.

"In his speech Key remarked that New Zealanders had bade goodbye to the 'bossy' Clark-Cullen government. Well, they thought they had. In reality they had merely swapped the overtly scowling Helen Clark with an ever-smiling but equally authoritarian John Key who seems to think that speaking barely intelligibly with an affected accent straight out of Bro Town makes Nanny Statism somehow palatable.

"Key boasted about all the extra OPM (Other People's Money) his government has directed at corporate and other welfare schemes like Labour's Working for Families scam. (He omitted, of course, to mention the round of tax cuts that was cancelled.) Anything but give their money back to the people who earned it, eh, John? That would imply a commitment to f......

"He boasted about all the extra OPM being spent on shoring up Nanny's Die-While-You-Wait health system. Anything but mention divesting the thing back to the taxpayers who die under its auspices, eh John? That would imply a commitment to f......

"He boasted about the government's declaration of war on 'p.' One would assume he meant 'privatisation,' given the government's marked socialist proclivities. But no, it's the drug, p. Sigh. Same-old same-old prohibitionism that didn't work in the 1920s, except for organised crime. Anything except let people put whatever they like into their own bodies, eh John? That would imply a commitment to f......

"It's idle to boast about extra police when you then direct them to 'protect' people from themselves," Perigo continues. "People who commit crimes against other people while under the influence of drugs should be dealt with the same way as people who commit crimes while not under the influence of drugs—with swift justice, without mercy. But heck, we can't have that. That too would imply a commitment to f......

"In essence, life under National is indistinguishable from life under Labour. Key's most promising appointment, Rodney Hide, has gone off on a tangent, reorganising the politicians and bureaucrats of Auckland while allowing all manner of nonsense to continue to proceed under Nanny State abominations like the Emissions Trading Scheme—a further assault on f......
 
"It's true that the atmosphere is not as overtly menacing as when Clark glowered at us from the heights of Helengrad—but New Zealanders will soon recognise that a male Prime Minister who deliberately dumbs down his speech to sound like Pascalle in Outrageous Fortune can be an even more insidious threat to ... FREEDOM," Perigo concludes.
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