The Saint reckons just like Jurassic Park - the extremely bad, Hollywood blockbuster about dinosaurs making a comeback on planet earth - New Zealand's political equivalent of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, Winston Raymond Peters, has finally come out of hibernation.
And similar to a bear that comes out of his cave after a long winter of slumber, old Winny is as bad tempered, cagey and evasive as ever. Winston has decided to make a comeback, nearly a year since he and his horrible lot were kicked into touch by voters at the 2008 election general.
His demise was much to the relief and delight of most thinking New Zealanders. That is except for the core group of oldies, red necks, malcontents, grumpies and nutters who will vote for Winston no matter what ... until they die. [The good news is that more and more of this bunch of Alzheimer suffers - also known as NZ First supporters - will die each year, meaning there will be less and less of them in time.]
Anyway, these hardcore NZ First supporters will have emptied their catheters and been rattling their walkers in pure excitement after seeing their demi-god back on the TV and returning from the political wilderness again.
For them; Winston's Lazarus-like return, spewing his well-versed lines about separatism, dishonesty and conspiracy theories would have been like the sweet music of WW2 darling Vera Lynn to the ears for this backward-looking bunch of cemetery fodder.
Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending where you stand on the political spectrum, for both Winston and his supporters his messages were about as fresh as the old war horse's suit and tie - which happened to be exactly the same as when he exited stage left on election night.
So the Saint suggests that Winston's scaremongering and fanciful claims are likely to have a similar smell and taste to the general public as his policies did at the last election - somewhat stale and well passed their used-by-date!
Let's hope that just like his polices and core supporters, Winston Peters chances of making a comeback in election 2011 are about as dead as Michael Jackson!
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