Firstly congratulations to Clarke and Jacinda on their wedding announcement.
I’ve known Clarke since we worked together at Channel Z and Jacinda has babysat my daughter on a coupe of occasions, so many blessings to them for what will be a manic celebration that everyone will want to be part of.
We’ve had state funerals before but never a state wedding (not that this will be a state wedding – will it?), and seeing as everyone loves a wedding it will be THE social event of the year. Beyond that though are the political realities and they are all dreadful for National.
This wedding will suck up news oxygen like nothing else and that means no one in their right mind would challenge Simon Bridges for leader of the National Party before the 2020 election. The international and national media feeding frenzy will utterly swamp anything National have to say on any issue.
The vast majority of NZers will stop caring about policy and focus myopically on the wedding…
“Sure Kiwibuild is a joke, but what is Jacinda wearing”?
“Sure the majority of their policy is meaningless bullshit that doesn’t really address jack shit, but what flavour wedding cake are they having”?
“I agree, social services are stagnating and poverty hasn’t been addressed, but what are their colour palettes”?
…See? Politics becomes pointless when there’s a wedding of this magnitude.
The only way Simon Bridges could counter this is by personally entering Pike River Mine and finding the Ark of the Covenant while healing sick children. He is now an utterly lame duck leader, too weak to win and in such an unenviable position to not be challenged until after he fails at the ballot box next year.
No one in their right mind is going to challenge Bridges for leadership to go up against Jacinda in a wedding dress.
Meanwhile, in another universe, Deborah Hill Cone (with an e), is sobbing over a column she now deeply regrets.
It all confirms my view, MOST humans are ultimately primitive in their mindsets, and hence we have so many issues. If this is what decides who is PM and in government, bury me deep now, I have no more time for such human fellows to share this piece of earth with any longer.
simon bridges could try wearing a wedding dress
Always the bridesmaid, never the bride….
Screw the useless lot depending on benefits, they can wait, higher priority is A WEDDING of Jacinda Dear with Clarke. True colours, I note.
Golly Martyn You made my day there with that humour manner you wrote that article.
I have a smile on my face here.
Best you attend the wedding to add a sparkle to it since you are “family to speak”
Yes right you are jacinda will take the heat off the election if she sets the wedding around September next year as the promise of spring is in the air at the time and hopefully we will have a special rail tourist train setup to run from Wellington to arrive in Gisborne full of welling wishers or the wedding event as well.
Jacinda may even boost the Labour chances to take back the Gisborne seat this way by bringing rail back to Gisborne.
i bet the wedding will be election year in a marginal electorate
national are snookered
Deborah Hill Cone (with an e)…
Solid Gold.
Mwhahahahaaa!
As for the National party and who gets to be leader after Bridges is all washed up and the boat has sunk ,…
‘Who shall have a fishy on a little dishy,
Who shall have a fishy when the boat comes in ‘.
But I think both Collins and certainly Bridges have missed the boat for over a year now and its only going to get worse. There will be no ‘fishy ‘ on anyone’s ‘dishy’ as far as Nationals concerned for a very , very long , long time.
And that’s payback for all the rotten things they did to so many people over nine long years of John Key corrupt govt.
“The only way Simon Bridges could counter this is by personally entering Pike River Mine and finding the Ark of the Covenant while healing sick children.”
I’m sure Bridges would find a way to fuck that up
Meanwhile, his predecessor, The Great Helmsman Key would’ve blown up the mine, pissed into the Ark as a urinal, and sold the sick kids to go up clean chimneys. His popularity wouldve gone up 10 percentage points
Nats love that sort of shit
The NZ ‘royal’ wedding sure introduces a focal point for our circus like MSM .. and yes I believe you’re correct Martyn, that it will be the distraction that secures Labours second term.
The trouble is, what sort of Government will arise in 2020? Will it be LAB + WokeGreen? LAB + NZ1? I guess the plus is it won’t be NAT, but that’s really as good as it gets. Labour have all but proven themselves to be all ‘hui’ no ‘dui’, at least in this term. Sure they’ve made some nasty NAT policy a little less nasty, and have built 3 or 4 houses… So 2020-2023 had better be a cracker term. I won’t hold my breath!
And they will of course invite Harry and Meghan with their new born, so Neve has some company at the wedding celebration and party.
Imagine, cute little babies and a marriage, altogether with royalty, Women’s Weekly and other publications will have pics galore for a whole year to feed the masses.
Who needs a revolution, the new opium of the people is weddings and babies of the famous and powerful.
Unfortunately you are right- the gullible NZers will lap up the manure.
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