Russel Norman seems to think he knows where the chicken
is. He's down the other end of the
debating chamber.
Dr Norman's little outburst
in parliament (between Questions 4 and 6, not in the individual questions but available by scrolling through to where Question 5 should have been) brought a smile to my face.
On reflection, calling someone chicken is the territory of primary
school children, rather than the leader of the third largest party in
Parliament. However, it has garnered
attention, and the message is not that a politician acted childishly, that's
hardly news, it's that the PM was challenged for not having the courage to
answer a question in parliament. The
loss of a question in Parliament is well worth the effort.
There was something much more significant in Parliament
today, in Question 6, where Russel Norman exposed Bill English's shortcomings
on some quite fundamental principles.
His answer to this supplementary question
Does the Minister accept that if some of the shares from the asset sale programme end up in overseas ownership, the dividends paid to those owners will add to New Zealand’s current account deficit?
astounded even the Speaker, and to avoid misleading
Parliament he was forced into referring questioners to the Department of
Statistics. And it's budget week.
Where I work (in the real world), anyone who tried crap like
that would be hidden from clients and put under the supervision of someone who
knows what they are doing. Or encouraged
to find employment with one of our competitors.
Headless Chickens – Body Blow, 1993
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