Political Caption Competition
Welcome to National – I’ll let you lick this ice cream, but not join a Union.
Welcome to National – I’ll let you lick this ice cream, but not join a Union.

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Floods in Waikato and Wellington expose the gap between climate science and Government policy, as Civil Defence funding is cut during escalating disasters.

It is painful. It is infuriating. And it forces victims and the nation to endure trauma once again. But…

I don’t need to carry in KFC and pretend to care when it’s not a climate event
I call it spiral-up economics, a great mass with hundreds and thousand at the bottom, narrowing to a tiny point with a cherry on top. Next year we’ll insert a flake.
What witty comments overall!
I’m going to set up work-training for the unemployed when I am ensconced as Prime Minister.
Start teaching the old-fashioned NZ virtues like scone making for one. My image holding an ice cream – perfectly made with a cute little tip at the top – will encourage both the eating of ice cream, containing milk so a patriotic action, and inspire the hapless hopeless to make efforts to rise above their sloth and decadence and gain such useful skills.
Mr Whippy has now partnered with McDonalds to feed the poor. This ground reaching trickle down partnership is a first and guaranteed to solve child poverty by increasing child labour at lower price points than pay-for-job migrant labour which was disrupted by covid. We encourage more children who are educated at our Burger King schools for critical skills, to man our production lines, with our new improved ACC model that has our injured children helped back to recovery by the business that injured them.
Let them eat ‘ice cream’!
“ A few of these could cool down global warming…”
Not quite what I eat in the back of my big shiny Mercedes, but it’ll do for the bottom- feeders, it’ll do.
‘ This is nowhere near as cold as I am.’
“ Every day in every way I’m getting sillier and sillier. “
Creaming it
“Like this snow freeze, I will melt when put under heat”
Have this ice-cream little girl. By the time you grow up, this ice cream will cost 1000 x more but our ‘manager’ wage will still be minimum wage or below, that we expect the taxpayers to top up to survive on it.
And that is why capitalism works.
$100k in NZ gets you a list MP seat, you don’t need to care about Kiwis or speak English or know about the laws here, in fact probably better you don’t.