The McGillicuddy Serious Party today announced that it will end the ludicrously over regulated snake oil market, in order that New Zealand producers can compete on the New Zealand market.

Until now it has been impossible for peddlers to (legally) use raw materials sourced in New Zealand to manufacture their slime. This is the most vulgar form of regulation, and simply amounts to exterior subsidy.

In this modern day and age it is a simple matter to genetically engineer a toothless snake, all show with no bite.

If New Zealand voters really want the snake oil industry to remain, when it surely must be on it's last dying legs, the choice(s) are clear.

With 73 list MP's (to choose from), McGillicuddy Serious will finally put the industry in it's rightful place. Once, and for All.

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>