Open Mic WEDNESDAY 12th AUGUST + Political Caption Competition
POLITICAL FACT OF THE DAY: Ancient Athens practiced ostracism, where citizens could vote to exile a prominent politician for ten years by scratching their names onto broken pieces of pottery called ostraka.
POLITICAL QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Bullshit is the glue that binds us as a nation.”
― George Carlin
POLITICAL HAIKU OF THE DAY:
Caucus knives are drawn
Luxon smiles and counts the votes
Who blinks gets his job
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About to be pmpaled on that pitchfork. No-one else wants to get caught on the horns of that dilemma.
He has ‘the full support of the caucus’. Yeah, right!
Delusion upon delusion although his best friends won’t tell him. See Nicola’s smug little smirk.
Key was also good at ignoring the facts and getting excited about his ‘new clothes’. This little emperor is worse.
Let me hold that pitchfork, out of the way, safely behind you, Dear.