Her House (With apologies to Crosby, Stills and Nash.)

By
Chris Trotter
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I’ll see to Neve

While you cook the Snapper

That you caught today

 

Staring at the screen

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For hours and hours, I wish that people

understood the problems

… difficulties

 

If only they could wear my shoes

for just five minutes, then they’d know how hard it is to

please everyone

 

I know they all need homes, and if there was

A silver bullet don’t you think I would have fired it?

So they could avoid the hardships

… difficulties

 

Our house really is a bloody nice house

We bought it just in time

You’d think that was a crime

But given my job, what was I to do?

What’s more …

 

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26 COMMENTS

  2. The house is on fire but the owner is too busy cooking dinner to notice.

    Probably half-pissed anyway.

  3. Jacinda said in an early puff piece interview when first PM, that a book on her shelf by French academic Thomas Pikkety–a mild enough critic of capitalism–was unread, she had not quite got around to it. But there were many other things of course in life that had engaged her, fair enough too. Ex Mormon woman into the Auckland night life and so on. But there was another past in her study and OE…

    You can of course be an ideologue of sorts by not openly being one! She allows the neo liberal consensus/hegemony to roll on unmolested across New Zealand. And so does the NZ Labour Party, which essentially purged classic left social democrats–“purged” is not too strong a word if you were around in the 80s–during peak Rogernomics. I stood on a few rainy weekends outside Labour’s Grey Lynn LEC meetings with friends trying to get Richard Prebble to behave, but hey, at least Sandra Lee had her brief Parliamentary career.

    Social media is over subscribed with descriptions like mine of the problems, so how about some more action!
    –restore the NZCTU to a class left fighting organisation that demands attention, build union density
    –unite all community organisations and NGOs that can be united to organise and take appropriate direct action, including occupying appropriate empty properties
    –restart regular Climate Strikes, support Māori initiatives, stand ‘freak power’ candidates in all local elections from School BOTs, DHBs, power co.s, to Local Govt.

  5. Cheap dig Chris. Rather than apologies to C,S,N I think you owe an apology to Jacinda. Especially in light of your recent article about the battle between her, Grant and the bureaucracy.

  7. Jacinda doesn’t have rental properties. So whatever her house is worth she will buy and sell on the same market. I don’t think her house is anything too special.

    Why not critique yesterday’s package which the property investors have. Suggest a better alternative or something constructive.

  8. We live in a country that is the envy of the world – For its LEADERSHIP!!!

    We live in a country where we can move around freely in ways that few are able to do.

    We have a leader who achieved what was for many other world leaders, impossible.

    And this is Mr Trotter’s summation.

    For Shame.

    • Yup – not the Olympian perspective Trotter used to be able to trot out.

      She’s welcome to her house – and she doesn’t have a truckload of them to be ashamed of.

  9. Methinks Mr Trotter is losing his edge…from the guy who wrote No Left Turn, this is a cheap shot indeed.

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