Winston Peters...

Good morning listeners…

I love elections. It’s Winston time. Its quality Winston time. The king pin. The king maker is back. The Liberace of politics comes out on stage… its show time. I love it….

And I have to tell you … that billboard of him and the little ripples of surf. It’s a political postcard. it just tickles me..and as pictures say a thousand words I will tell you know what the bill board is trying to say to honest dave.

If nz first is trying to relate to Hamiltonians like us, the campaign has sadly missed the boat. If Winston had ever been to visit the many tourist attractions of Hamilton like…um……….. the Hamilton rose gardens he would know that there is no salt water in Hamilton. Us Hamiltonians do not surf locally. We do not leave home and come back in 10 minutes with snapper for the family frypan. No one in Hamilton has suffered a shark attack or the rub of a jelly fish. If anything, winston’s campaign is subtle mock of Hamilton and it’s isolation from the sea, a new Zealand party in house, laugh at the inlanders, tauranga is on the coast, we are the power brokers etc etc. its really just childish and cheap and I’m surprised Rodney hide missed some mileage there.

Somedays the billboard makes me want to get in my Toyota and whip over the kaimai’s and look for anyone in a pin stripe suit who looks too smug and tell him on behalf of Hamilton citizens everywhere that Hamilton is where it happens and that we have a town and the river runs through it and we are damn proud of it even though we cant boogie board it….. and we are quite happy with that and I’ll tell him he can shove his tidal, salty, unfresh water and all the pipis that go with it, right down the small gullets of the full membership of grey power.

What is Winston doing on the beach anyway?? I do think it’s ill advised and quite insensitive to Hamiltonians, as well as surviving victims of the recent tsunami….. but that’s just my honest opinion.

Maybe the billboard is a nod to the foreshore debate. The billboard says to me:

here I , Winston peters, kind of sort of stand, on the foreshore belonging to all new zelanders, and even though I might raise the heels of my well polished shoes to the surge of maori renaissance (that’s the water), note that my heels are raised and they shall sink back deeper in to the sands of nz foreshore for all new Zealanders shouting long live captain hobson and ideologies of ‘we are all one’. I’m on the beach wearing a suit and smart shoes but I shall not be moved, thank you very much media spotlight.

Or maybe its more of a subtle message.

Winston on the beach with small waves looks like, just at the crucial click of the camera, he’s smelled some pootang on his shoes. He has a keen sense of smell old Winston – is the smell on his heel the classic beach dog turd of a Labrador? Or is it more the smell of rampant immigration rising from the, as-pictured, definitly –soiled- by -asian boat-people-who –have- no –right- to -refugee status- water that so offends the Winston nostrils?? Wasn’t he on talk back this week claiming the new all black haka was a clear sign of immigration policy gone wrong in this country???

I think it sends mixed messages to kids too. It says yes be sun smart, cover up on the beach, wear a suit if poss…. But it doesn’t really look like he’s at the beach to push play for 30 minutes. Nor is he heel raising between the flags…

He does want our party vote though… so maybe the billboard is a clue… nz party is offering a beach party…. Maybe the barbe and sausages were cropped out of the shot.

If you could bottle the karma of the Winston than I’d sure hope the mrs would buy me some for fathers day…… he’s got more staying power than Viagra..

We love you Winston.

This has been another honest political broadcast by honest dave on the generator..