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Nick Smith – Politician of the Week

by Whaleoil on October 16, 2009

<gritted teeth>It gives me me great pleasure to announce that Nick Smith is this weeks Gotcha! and Whale Oil Beef Hooked Politician of the Week</gritted teeth>

Everyone knows I think Nick Smith is a plonker and a liability but this week he finally said out loud what everyone including myself has been thinking.

“If my doctor told me that I was terminally ill and I had 30 days to live, with the ACC rules the way they are, I’d be finding myself a train to throw myself under on the 29th day because my family would be treated so much more generously,” he said.

This is refreshing honesty shown by a politician and as my example showed yesterday he is dead right. In fact the younger your family the earlier you should throw yourself under a train to maximise your “entitlements”

I don’t see why Nick Smith should have to apologise for telling the truth, he should instead be commended and so <gritted teeth> it is with the greatest of pleasure that he receives this award</gritted teeth>.

As a prize might I suggest he helps himself to some taxpayer funded air travel and go open a coal mine or watch some native timber being felled or something useful rather than implementing an ETS. Well done Nick Smith.

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  • crabby

    I think he needs a good swift kick in the nuts for the ACC levies he is wanting to impose onto motorcyclists based on CC rating though.

  • Adolf Fiinkensein

    Do they pay for workplace suicide?

  • http://www.kiwiwit.blogspot.com Kiwiwit

    Nick, you've got 30 days to live!

  • jabba

    I agree WOBH .. I have heard such things being talked about for years .. nothing new and once again, someone has stated the truth and has been made to apologise.. to say such things out loud as a politician is suspect though.
    Re the increase in ACC payments .. not many alternative sin the short term .. just imagine what our Red brothers and sisters would do .. shudder

  • http://www.threechairs.co.nz peter

    I think on the back of his sycophantic apology you should rip the award from his pinko PC hands.

  • erikter

    As you rightly said, Nick Smith is a plonker, a dickhead and a useless minister.

    He deserves to share the award with his boss, the guy recently tamed by the Maori Party, the tea boy John Key.

  • Scanner

    Right on Whale, Nick can be a 24 ct tosser at times, sadly this time he's in the right and doing nothing more than cleaning up the mess left behind by Cullen and Street, what sort of a thicko increases the entitlements without increasing the contributions, 3rd form economics tell you this is flawed logic.
    No point in trying to stake Nick out in the sun for telling the truth, someone has has to wipe up the shit and change the nappy, where are all the Labour flunky's on this one.
    Both Cullen and Street should be called to account on this one, then we all know there is no one in the Behive with the nuts to do this, so shut up and pay up.

  • jabba

    I maybe wrong (god forbid) but would I be correct to suggest that most people who get ACC, as with most prisoners, would be Labour/left people?
    You hear so many times about $'s being spent on stupid survey type things about shit that no-one cares about .. how about a survey on inmates to ask what political party they support.

  • Michaels

    X–ellent feedback with Leighton on this and Steve today…. Numbers should be up a tad and more tards coming to the site….
    And thanks for the other thingie :)

  • Giggle

    I'm looking forward to all the poor people having to sell their bikes.

  • Seán

    Regarding the Nick Smith quote from above:

    “If my doctor told me that I was terminally ill and I had 30 days to live, with the ACC rules the way they are, I’d be finding myself a train to throw myself under on the 29th day because my family would be treated so much more generously,” he said.

    …has someone actully done somehting like this?