Cactus Kate has a post on the failed leadership coup mounted by Roger Douglas. I say Roger Douglas because I scarcely can believe that Heather Roy would have the gumption to mount a horse let alone a coup. John Boscawen was the third plotter but didn’t have the stones to go through with it.
Cactus is right when she says that the only thing worse than a leadership coup in a small party is a failed leadership coup. Especially so when you only need to get three out of five. So on that basis the three of them are utter failures.
Audrey Young got nearly everything right, except the part about John Key saving Rodney’s arse. My understanding is that Rodney had stared them all down and Boscawen caved when he realised that without Rodney who has Epsom for as long as he wants it he wouldn’t be able to dip his snout in the trough of public funds. Key was informed after the fact.
So, what to do now?
Well traitors are traitors and there is only one solution. Death. I don’t mean physical death, I mean political death. The three of them are List MPs and the party could quite easily give them all the boot. That won’t quite work so my pick is that they ditch Roger “Cotton Hill” Douglas. Like Cotton Hill, Sir Roger didn’t have the shins for a shin dig with Rodney. Right now Sir Roger Douglas is a malignant cancer on the party he founded, he acts and carries on like a muddled old fool reminiscing about the battles of days long past as he pisses in his adult diapers. Cancers need to be cut out and so ACT needs a radical Roger-dectomy.
As for the others they should humbly beg forgiveness from Rodney and hope that the Czars of the party who control the money don’t decide that a little slide down the list rankings next time might be a fitting punishment.
There is also the little matter of who welshed to the media, my pick is it was Garrett who would have been pickled better than Kim Chee this past week. He should get 50 lashes on the cock with a wet shoelace for blabbing.
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Garrett’s punishment sounds mildly pleasurable.
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Douglas ***HAS TO GO!***
I don’t really care what happens to the others, but Douglas is an **ABSOLUTE LIABILITY!**
Act can have all of the greatest policies in the world (and they do have some good ones), but as long as Roger “electoral poison” Douglas remains, then the best policies in the world are pointless.
For goodness sake, Act, get rid of him. Get rid of him now. At least by doing that, some good can come of this.
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Not content with bringing down the Fourth Labour government through infighting, the angry grey bumblefuck now wants to bring down a National Government the same way.
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If Douglas was really “electoral poison” then he’d have to go. As it is he’s not. The problem is his senile policies – state subsidies for private health and income employment, no termination of existing beneficiaries “rights” that make him part of the problem, not part of the solution.
ACT must dump Roger and the traitors. Then appoint Brash, Richardson (if they could afford her) and stand on a real no compromise policy: the end of all benefits, all SOEs, all the rest of the state mess immediately.
And force National to another election if National does do what it damn well knows is best for the country
Frankly the saddest guy losing his balls isn’t Roger. It is (once again) Key. Key should have let this coup go ahead and forced a snap election. Chances are he’d have had enough votes to change the constitution once and for all, getting rid of labour, unions, benefits, bludgers, super, codgers and all the rest.
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Come in Sir Roger – your time is up!
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Roger needs to check himself in for a session with these guys….
http://www.cbtpsychology.co.nz/cbt/
Only in Hamilton, CBT so you can get a degree in it now eh?
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This sort of stuff surfaces in the media for two reasons:
1. There is an Act conference or event and the media want to divert attention; or
2. It is the end of the Parliamentary year and the media love to make it last over the summer break.
This sort of stuff happens in Act because:
1. Act has attention deficit disorder, and if they can’t get media relevance, they cannibalise; and
2. If its people aren’t kept busy on something productive, they fester and vent to anyone who’ll listen.
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SS – this stuff surfaces because MP’s and their staff get pissed with journos this time of year and blab.
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@sinner – Sorry, I have to differ – Douglas really *is* electoral poison.
He is a complete “roadblock” to those who would *like* to have stronger policies than the Nats have, and would like to look at Act, but who just *can’t* get past Douglas and his image.
It gives them an *excuse* not to check Act out. With Douglas gone, the roadblock goes too.
**What have Act got to lose** by dumping him? They can’t do any worse in the polls than they are now, and by dumping them they have *some* chance of doing better! Keep him there, and they have *no chance at all*.
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Fuck, despite the way he created mass unemployment and sold off the family silver in the 1980′s, I’m almost starting to respect Sir Roger.
But only because his snout was not quite as deep in the trough as Hide’s has been found to be.
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Actually it was deeper. And still is.
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Bollocks toad – have you already forgotten Douglas’ “I’ll take the missus around the world on the taxpayer BECAUSE I’M ENTITLED TO”? He is as bad as any of them.
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Hey Toad, can you please list the “family silver” that was sold off during Roger’s time as Finance Minister? I think you will find that you are full of shit.
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good post dude,
My God how much we wish the end of the Douglas Era,
and Rodney will go soon,
I was the only person within Act membership to refuse and vote against Douglas a permanent seat on the priveledged Act board with Katherine Judd and Buscowan in year 2000.
Its sad but Act is bad news.
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Douglas is the nearest thing in NZ politics to Father Jack – the atavistic, tunnel vision obsessive and synapse misfiring character in the TV comedy Father Ted.
His election poisoning script in its bumper sticker entirity: “Privatise!” “Unions Evil!” “State Owned Enterprise!” “Tax Cuts!” “Me! Me! Me!”
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You all forget it was Rodders who was the trougher that led to this.
Look at Hides history, professional student, then bottom of barrel university tutor some how he gets a masters in economics from a 5th rate american university that was previously a teachers college, ends up as a speech writer for Gibbs who gets him on the ACT list.
This guy is allways one slip of the banana peel from being the next benny Hill
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@mediatart “This guy is allways one slip of the banana peel from being the next benny Hill”
On the button. Hide is a bald buffoon. Long may he (mis)rule the freakshow called the Act party.
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“But only because his snout was not quite as deep in the trough as Hide’s has been found to be.”
Toad, Rodney acted foolishly as he has acknowledged but not dishonestly. Two Green MPs were collecting $500 each for a house that a trust belonging to the Greens owned.
The market value of the house was under $500. It is not credible that each MPs was not aware the other was collecting an allowance.
There is no party in Parliament in a position to take the moral high ground and that includes the Greens.
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Ahhh, “mediatart” (aka andrew williams),you crack me up!
I can’t wait for your next commentary. I suspect you’ll focus all of your miniscule efforts on, let’s see – RH! It’s just a hunch of mine, nothing personal.
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Wow what a CV. Failed Pig Farmer, Failed Politician, Failed Dictator. Go play Bowls with square balls Rog.
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Fuck, despite the way he created mass unemployment and sold off the family silver in the 1980’s, I’m almost starting to respect Sir Roger.
More to the fucking point, Roger did almost none of this. Some of the hard work was done by Ruth – but much remains still do be done!
We’ve still got SOEs
We’ve still got Unions
We’ve still got State schools and hospitals
We’ve still got government owned banks, trains, and airlines.
We’ve still got ACC
We’ve still got the dole and DPB
We’ve still got super!
If Roger had done half of what stupid 20-year-olds thing he did – NZ would have absolutely none of those things now!
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Almost right cam, but one thing Roger failed to realise is that, only the ACT board can appoint the leader. I’m sure there is some role to keep him busy.
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Oh joy, I check my emails in Prague and see this. Whatever next?
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