Political Caption Competition
PUNTER: You have my arm up behind my back, you’re hurting me.
SIMON: Keep smiling at the camera or I’ll break it
PUNTER: You have my arm up behind my back, you’re hurting me.
SIMON: Keep smiling at the camera or I’ll break it

A Marxist, A Government Cabinet Minister, a Green MP, a Newspaper columnist and 2 business journalists all walk into a…

Shane Jones throws red meat to the worst instincts — but the real danger is slipping through unnoticed. An India trade deal pushed by corporate interests, signed before the public ever sees the fine print.

Five disgruntled MPs… or total support? Luxon can’t seem to decide — and that contradiction is starting to look a lot like a leadership crisis National can’t contain.

The numbers are shifting — and suddenly the left has real options. A four-party progressive government isn’t just theory anymore. The question now is what they’d actually do with it.

Sean Plunket has said far worse than this, which is why the BSA complaint feels less like principle and more like bureaucratic theatre with a funding problem underneath.

Winston is confused that he’s an opposition MP and not actually part of the Government
Simon realises political quest beyond reach so auditions for TeleTubbies.
Someone just like me smiled with Simon. Simon must be a great bloke. I’ll vote for him.
The troubling thing about the smile, so perfected – ‘No it doesn’t look forced’.
“Does this smile look forced?”
Simon’s such a nice young man, he calls himself “a compassionate Conservative” and he’s the son of a preacher man! A good man for PM, yes.
The only one who could ever reach me
Was the son of a preacher man
The only boy who could ever teach me
Was the son of a preacher man
Yes, he was, he was, ooh, yes, he was…
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/dustyspringfield/sonofapreacherman.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Bridges
Will old ladies vote for Simon because he’s a young fellow with such a nice, open smile?