ACT

Disaster Tourist Gareth Hughes posted at Frogblog about the SVA. He was doing well until the very end when he said:

The image of the lazy, selfish, and drunk student or the inept and corrupt student association so favoured of ACT and National Party arguments is well and truly busted.

Like a true pinko he couldn’t help himself and had to politicise the disaster in Christchurch.

This uncharitable individual talks up the SVA, then smears National and ACT without being aware of the facts.

Sam Johnson is a National Party member. He ran for the centre right Independent Citizens in the last local body elections, and won a seat on his community board. The politically aware in Christchurch rate him as a huge talent, even if Sam is far to modest to rate himself as that. He bought together a good group of students after the September 4th earthquake, and these people were not student politicians.

This blog understands that the UCSA provided Sam’s group funds to help out at the last election, and have been very, very helpful, but this is not a UCSA initative – it was Sam and his group of highly competent volunteer students that made it all happen.

On the community board Sam has also done some smart things. He has tried to build better relationships between drunken students and normal people, by dealing sensibly with problems. If you put rubbish bins on the road on a Thursday night when students are walking home from the pub drunk then there is a law of nature that says that the rubbish bins will be tipped over. So Sam asked to move the rubbish day to a day when there werent drunken students. There are other examples that have filtered through the tip line about what an exceptional guy Sam is.

Frogblog amongst other leftwing blogs and Gareth Hughes in particular need to accept that Sam is doing things for the right reasons, rather than for some narrow political advantage like them.

UPDATE: When I posted a comment on the post I ticked the “notify Facebook” option and my comment went to my wall. That prompted amny in the Whale Army to go and comment at Frog Blog. Well now those comments have been deleted except for the sychophant comments. Comments from me and David Farrar and Keeping Stock were all deleted. Seems that not only dot he Greens lie but they don’t want to be caught lying.

UPDATE 2: The Comments are back now…and they are blaming a technical fault…yeah right…caught int eh headlights more like.

Last night there was a debate organised by the NZEI on Early childhood education in Botany. I felt sorry for Lyn Murphy not having any supporters there and because ACT is sparse in its resourcing I thought as a favour and in the interests of of wider debate that I would help out by videoing and posting a video for voters to see.

Lyn started off her evening well by telling attendees that the “ECE cuts weren’t good enough”. This video is of her answering 6 questions from the floor.

Hope you enjoy it.

Thanks to the kind sponsorship of Chaos and Mayhem Limited I attended, with the pod, the Action at the Farm today at Alan Gibbs Farm in Kaukapakapa.

I have never been to Gibbs Farm and was blown away with what Alan has achieved there. He gave a speech. For those who have heard Alan speak before you can well imagine how execrable it was, but his speeches are legendary and when you are as rich as Croesus you just don’t care what people think about you or anything else you have to say.

However it was interesting from the historical perspective of the farm. He bought the farm in 1991 and paid just $250,000 for the land. Surely it is worth many millions now. He also explained that not a single hill on the farm is the same as when he bought it, that he views the land as part of his sculpture. And he isn’t finished yet!

The property is magnificent, but I’d hate to be the one who mows the lawns. I have attached a slideshow of the art and sculpture.

Rodney Hide also spoke and gave his vision for election year to the faithful adherents. I particularly liked the focus of the policy mix. Not as broad as before and focussing on sensible deliverables that will steady New Zealand. The two key planks that will drive other initiative is “One Law for All” and a version of a TABOR which will seek to limit the expansion of the state. This is vintage Act and it is pleasing to see that they are focussing on the economy as a central platform. Rodney also outlined the goal is for at least 8 MPs. That means they have to get around 6% and on current polling that just isn’t going to happen.

Still the TABOR is a good idea and one long past due in New Zealand since Labour just ignores the Fiscal Responsibility Act.

MPs in attendence were Hilary Calvert, Heather Roy and John Boscawen. Had short chats with John and Hilary, Heather is obviously still in a snit with me. Also saw David Garrett. ACT’s Botany candidate, Lyn Murphy, was there as well, good to see her campaigning hard for the people of Botany in Kaukapakapa. I also caught up with Dick Quax who was looking pretty chipper even after helping Jami-lee Ross put up all his signs yesterday.

I also saw Sean Plunket and Michelle Boag there. The Act staffers were trying to tack down Plunket because apparently he bludged his way in. I have no idea why Michelle Boag was there. Maybe she wants to tank Act like she did in 2002 with National. Anyway while everyone else was walking around the magnificent farm, there was Boag was swanning around in the back of  a Jeep like the mistress of the manor.

It was a fantastic day and I appreciate the kind generosity of my sponsor, Chaos and Mayhem Limited.

This snap from The NZ Herald succintly shows the utter difference between left and right, Act and Labour.

Left v. Right, Act v. Labour, Right v. Wrong

I am sure you all remember Kevin Campbell of “John the Jew” fame. Well the stupid little coup plotter and disaffected ex-ACT member has raised his head again for another bullet to the forehead.

He has sent an open letter to Rodney Hide waxing lyrical about Yeltsin and other and about how great he is. Here is an example of his deluded fantasies;

Now that I have read the 2010 conference speeches and chorus of negative media reports since then, I feel confident that my deep concerns expressed to the board, in writing, are well founded.

I believe ACT is in deep trouble.

There is no doubt that the party has foundered since Richard Prebble departed in 2004. ACT has polled dismally, usually in the 1-2% range, except for the return of Sir Roger Douglas in 2008. His comeback was a rescue mission that delivered an election poll result of 3.65%.

Ok, so, can you hear that sound Kevin?…you can’t?…that sound….still can’t?….That is because it is the sound of no-one caring.

You have left the party because you are a c*nt and no-one likes traitors. Who cares about Richard Prebble, clearly he is mired in the past along with Yeltsin. He has sent this email everywhere (I mean even I got it) and one good ACT member has responded.

Dear Kevin

I know nothing of you except what you have written here, and the most significant revelation here is the following statement

“I referred to the prime minister in a blog as John the Jew. I admit it wasn’t a smart comment and it could be viewed negatively by some, but it was off-the-cuff and not intended to be racially offensive in any way. Even so I offered John Key my genuine apology which he accepted with thanks. The matter should have ended there but I underestimated my opponents to the board, which included you and the party president, you chose to escalate the issue into something unsavory to discredit me and damage my election chances.”

It’s pleasing to see that you realise it wasn’t a smart comment, and even more pleasing to see that ACT chose to escalate the issue to the point that you resigned.  Its also a relief to read that the comment was off-the-cuff; had it been the result of careful consideration, ACT would have had to consider even more drastic measures.

Given your obvious continuing interest in politics, and a clear talent for self-exculpation, I’m trying to think of how you could resuscitate your political career.  Iran seems the obvious place.  Even then, you would have to be careful to ensure that you limited your “off-the-cuff” religious slurs to foreign politicians in a fairly limited set of countries.  Check with the President there (Ahmadinejad) before you repeat this sort of performance.  He’s not a model of diplomacy but he hasn’t yet made an apparently sneering comment about the religion of anyone above him in the pecking order.  Good luck.

PS: Have a look at your genealogy.  If you go back far enough, you may find a Jewish ancestor.

That is simply the best slap-down ever. As you can see Kevin Campbell, traitor, coup plotter and ex-ACT member thinks, strangely, that he somehow matters and the Board of ACT and Rodney care what he has to say. Now that is really delusional.

He should STFU and remember he has left and ACT is all the better for it.

David Farrar has a rather tame post about ACT VP candidate Kevin Campbell making derogatory comments about John Key’s Jewish heritage.

Kevin Campbell is also running around saying that Roger “Yeltsin” Douglas is endorsing his candidature.

Frankly anyone endorsed by the Boris Yeltsin of New Zealand politics deserves a right good smacking. What a tosser putting an endorsement by Yeltsin on his brochure.

Clearly this twat needs to rejoin Labour from whence he came

And my sources tell me that this is just another play at failing at a leadership coup by Yeltsin against Hide. Campbell and another tosser by the name of Tashkoff are always moaning worse than a whore who has been short changed.

Well getting the support of Yeltsin, who couldn’t count to three at the latest attempted coup is like having Pol Pot endorse your nomination for the Nobel peace prize.

They are traitors and should be carded.

In National if some tosser went around claiming the support of an MP they wouldn’t get within a bulls roar of a nomination. Party members do not like being instructed how to vote by the parliamentary wing and it almost always ends in ignominious failure for the poseur.

Here is a video of Roger Douglas hard at work on his next book – Finishing my Business

PS I am not an ACT party member

PPS Note to DPF when putting a hit on actually hit the target. Don’t gum them like Nana with her teeth out.

Cactus Kate has a post on the failed leadership coup mounted by Roger Douglas. I say Roger Douglas because I scarcely can believe that Heather Roy would have the gumption to mount a horse let alone a coup. John Boscawen was the third plotter but didn’t have the stones to go through with it.

Cactus is right when she says that the only thing worse than a leadership coup in a small party is a failed leadership coup. Especially so when you only need to get three out of five. So on that basis the three of them are utter failures.

Audrey Young got nearly everything right, except the part about John Key saving Rodney’s arse. My understanding is that Rodney had stared them all down and Boscawen caved when he realised that without Rodney who has Epsom for as long as he wants it he wouldn’t be able to dip his snout in the trough of public funds. Key was informed after the fact.

So, what to do now?

Well traitors are traitors and there is only one solution. Death. I don’t mean physical death, I mean political death. The three of them are List MPs and the party could quite easily give them all the boot. That won’t quite work so my pick is that they ditch Roger “Cotton Hill” Douglas. Like Cotton Hill, Sir Roger didn’t have the shins for a shin dig with Rodney. Right now Sir Roger Douglas is a malignant cancer on the party he founded, he acts and carries on like a muddled old fool reminiscing about the battles of days long past as he pisses in his adult diapers. Cancers need to be cut out and so ACT needs a radical Roger-dectomy.

As for the others they should humbly beg forgiveness from Rodney and hope that the Czars of the party who control the money don’t decide that a little slide down the list rankings next time might be a fitting punishment.

There is also the little matter of who welshed to the media, my pick is it was Garrett who would have been pickled better than Kim Chee this past week. He should get 50 lashes on the cock with a wet shoelace for blabbing.