Where’s Jim?

I’ve already cov­ered the rort of Jim Ander­ton pre­tend­ing to be a leader of a polit­i­cal party when he is really only a Labour Party flunkie. Inci­den­tally this rort makes Bill English’s hair­cut, flow­ers and hous­ing issues look like small change.

How­ever the Whales Welling­ton spies tell him that Jim Ander­ton hasn’t been seen at Par­lia­ment in nearly 6 weeks. Appar­ently the cover story is he’s seri­ously ill with pneumonia.

Per­haps this is true – but where’s no account­abil­ity. When National MPs are sick – such as Allan Peachy’s can­cer, or Bakshee’s dodgy deal­ings heart, the Whips tell peo­ple why our employ­ees not work­ing. I’m pretty sure Labour does the same thing. Yet we have heard noth­ing from Ander­ton, well that isn’t strictly true there have been two press releases in the last eight weeks, but we all know who really writes those.

It seems Creepy Cos­grove and Lord Burns of Marl­bourgh are doing his elec­torate work. Lianne Dalziel being too busy revi­tal­is­ing her stalled may­oral campaign.

So, sorry if he’s sick but why is he keep­ing up the cha­rade of  being paid a leader salary if he’s effec­tively a Labour list MP??

I just bet this will become some sort of Leonid Brezh­nev type thing where there is spec­u­la­tion for years that he is actu­ally dead, then he turns up again, I think the North Kore­ans did the same thing all Week­end at Bernies like with Kim Il Sung.

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