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Blaming the Labour Party? Blaming a Party that is not in government, and has been out of office for five years?! How does that even begin to work as sounding plausible?!
This is a new “variant” on the three deflections that National defaults to when it scrambles to avoid taking responsibility for it’s botch-ups. Those three default-deflections are;
- Blame previous Labour government
- Release story on ‘welfare abuse’
- Blame Global Financial Crisis or similar overseas event
In this case blaming the previous Labour government won’t wash. Legal highs/psychoactive substances were barely known prior to 2008.
So it seems that blaming the current Labour Party will have to do instead.
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The news-story on the RNZ page made reference to Key claiming “ cabinet decided last Tuesday on a ban but wanted to keep quiet about it to cut down on stockpiling by consumers“.
But listen to the actual interview and words used by Dear Leader;
John Key: “Because the fortyone that we decided some time ago, in principle, we decided the Health Department made the wrong call in giving them a waiver. Now, we-“
Susie Ferguson: “And when did you decide this?”
John Key: “We decided that in Cabinet some while ago.”
Susie Ferguson: “Peter Dunne said it was agreed last Tuesday.”
John Key: “Yup, that’s some while ago…”
Since when “some time ago” equate to last week?
Lying hound.
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References
Radio NZ: Labour forced our hand on timing – Key
Radio NZ: PM defends timing of legal highs decision ( audio )
Previous related blogs
National under attack – defaults to Deflection #2
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Above image acknowledgment: Francis Owen/Lurch Left Memes
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I can’t wait to be rid of that pompous twat with his silly hair and bow ties, and his supercilious utterings.
Yes, we did something good, but it was only because the Labour party made us. Look, you know us, we would never do a good thing by ourselves.
True David…It’s amazing how National can be forced into changing their policies when Labour come up with a hardline policy which opposes National’s.
Maybe Labour could try to provide real alternative policies in regards to welfare, education, employment, the economy, gender rights, Maori rights, the justice system, environment, elderly care, social housing etc.
We forget what an alternative can create. It’s time to get Maggy Thatcher rolling in her grave.
” Legal highs/psychoactive substances were barely known prior to 2008.”
As much as I agree with your overall sentiment, in fact herbal highs have been around since at least the early 2000s. I remember the Wellingtonian (maybe still called The Contact at that stage) getting the ball rolling with one of the early scare stories. The journey of the anti-herbal highs movement since then has been pretty much the same graph that would map New Zealand’s steady descent into paranoid conservatism since then. The only question is how dark will this country go before people realise they are on a bad trip and want to get back to some sort of balanced sanity.
I concur, Fambo. Legal highs have been around for a while. I remember them being sold at “Cosmic Corner”, “City Stop”, et al.
Perhaps I should have said, ” Legal highs/psychoactive substances were barely known to the wider public prior to 2008.”
At the time they were incredibly popular with late night Courtney Place revellers. 99% of buyers were white, middle-class, night-clubbers who purchased them to stay awake all night. That, plus copious amounts of ice-blocks to cool down on over-heated, sweaty, dance floors.
(Personally I thought they were a waste of time. My poison-of-choice is some decent whiskey or bourbon.)
Maybe it ‘s time for National to spin the wheel of fortune again. Go to the No Right Turn blog to have a look at National’s wheel.
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