Southerly: This Week in Parliament: 20 October 2014 - 24th October 2014
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John Oliver meets the civilian. Give this man a tv budget.
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The uncircumcised minister
Kudos for not using “member” there. It must have been tempting.
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“Most GCSB staff are ex-parking wardens or former call-centre managers. In hindsight it was overly ambitious to ask them to develop a robot army.”
But they will be speech training the bots, to be really, reeally annoying.
Lets see those ISIS chappies get past them. HA! -
I was going to propose an ex-national MP/ex-All Black who seems to be at a loose end for the killer robot job but then realised that the fix was in and Bridges obviously already has a candidate in mind
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Kudos for not using “member” there. It must have been tempting.
Doh! You can probably hear me banging my head on my desk all the way from Tokyo. What a missed opportunity! Some political journalists have standards – but, I can assure you, not me.
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justice minister Amy Adams
Ever noticed how eerily similar she looks to Vladimar Putin ? Put a blonde wig on him and you couldn't tell the difference.
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FletcherB, in reply to
I was going to propose an ex-national MP/ex-All Black who seems to be at a loose end for the killer robot job but then realised that the fix was in and Bridges obviously already has a candidate in mind
I’m thinking of a particular ex-Nat and coincidentally also ex-Act MP/Party Leader who’d make an excellent second-choice candidate after Robo-collins?
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While amusing this is not as good as you previous works.
I suggest you stick to fiction and satire and avoid proper journalism.
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David I'm hoping your Week in Parliament will be a regular feature from now on. Your country needs you! ;-)
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"“Simon intends to create a superhuman cyborg warrior by ‘upgrading’ a suitable National Party MP,” says the Prime Minister."
Aha! At last a use for Judith Collins. She has, or did have, the necessary "instincts " for the job.
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Stupendously superb!
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Ever noticed how eerily similar she looks to Vladimar Putin ? Put a blonde wig on him and you couldn't tell the difference.
And some provocative Victory Red lippy
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Greg Dawson, in reply to
Ever noticed how eerily similar she looks to Vladimar Putin ? Put a blonde wig on him and you couldn’t tell the difference.
And some provocative Victory Red lippy
Or.... we could focus on how she's not a very effective minister, and she has a surprisingly dodgy portfolio of extramural activities given the scope of her ministerial role. </sjw>
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Matthew Poole, in reply to
Ever noticed how eerily similar she looks to Vladimar Putin ? Put a blonde wig on him and you couldn't tell the difference.
Have you ever seen the two of them in the same room at the same time?!
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Russell Brown, in reply to
I suggest you stick to fiction and satire and avoid proper journalism.
Bart, it's precisely this sort of thinking that holds back NZ Inc.
Why do you hate the idea of a prosperous, efficient country kept free of terrorism by experimental cyborgs? Do you not grasp that we're on the cusp of something pretty good here?
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David! I have received a request for similar reportage from you on the ebola threat in Wellington. Please advise, as any length you see fit.
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
Why do you hate the idea of a prosperous, efficient country
Russell, you are really not helping the situation by leaking Government secrets. You know this will only apply to the chosen few.
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And.
We have every reason to be fearful...
Did you not hear about the Flight that was cancelled when an “Al-Quida” Wi-Fi network became available? -
David Haywood, in reply to
David I’m hoping your Week in Parliament will be a regular feature from now on. Your country needs you! ;-)
Thanks, Lilith – an intriguing suggestion! If my country needs me then I suppose I should oblige.
Just FYI there was also a previous column here:
http://publicaddress.net/southerly/this-week-in-parliament-/
Alas the long-running stenographer dispute meant that there has been a slight – but, I hope, imperceptible – pause between instalments…
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David Haywood, in reply to
David! I have received a request for similar reportage from you on the ebola threat in Wellington. Please advise, as any length you see fit.
I think your correspondent will be interested in next Monday's report, where Ebola will certainly be (tastefully) mentioned.
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Lilith __, in reply to
If my country needs me then I suppose I should oblige.
We shall expect your next installment no later than mid-2018.
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Sacha, in reply to
that holds back NZ Inc
's hair as she vomits in the nightclub toilets
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Sacha, in reply to
the drugs appear to have worn off.
Under the Speaker's proposal, an Olympic-sized swimming pool would be installed in the main floor of the debating chamber. "During school visits I would entertain the children by swimming lengths of the pool while disguised as a camel," explains Dr Smith.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
trouble up at Pitman…
Alas the long-running stenographer dispute…
…all due to a simple typographic error that lead to the first tranche of Parliamentary security changes – as the they were replaced with steganographers!
I’m sure National were comfortable with that…Welcome to the obfuscation nation!
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This week in Parliament, in fact yesterday, Parliament was invited to welcome a delegation from the Fijian Parliament, which they did, with much banging together of hands.
I wondered what they were there for, was it to observe another successful Pacific Dictatorship? Of course this can't be the case as Fiji had an open and democratic election. So all is well with the world then.
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