tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post2402370242580073027..comments2024-03-29T03:41:12.499+13:00Comments on Bowalley Road: Labour's nightmarish road trip: From "Broad Church" to "Shopping Mall"Chris Trotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-36350951529221718352009-08-22T11:31:24.930+12:002009-08-22T11:31:24.930+12:00Actually John Denver and the Eagles 'screams&#...Actually John Denver and the Eagles 'screams' Upper Hutt Workingmen's club as much as anything else. <br />Kumbaya and If I had a hammer have fairly strong associations with the Vietnam anti war movement. Remember that?<br />One of the many significant anti establishment struggles in which Labour was particularly undistinguished.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-34131506726439374522009-08-22T00:55:59.603+12:002009-08-22T00:55:59.603+12:00Or mayhap,Trottear,
those wacky mall wares
are...Or mayhap,Trottear, <br />those wacky mall wares <br />are now National staples: <br /> enjoyed ad ennui <br /> by the fruits of said frumps,<br />gen X, Y and Z<br />-jaded dining-room tables<br /><br />And perchance, mon frere<br /> that same gauche anomie<br />and lack of mall-anchor<br /> spawned such dilettante rancour<br />as the Helenhate insanity<br />that ordained the Keyprofanity?<br /><br />And maybe, old pal,<br />Iceland's opened the door<br />a crak today<br />and that army of bennies <br />scratching for pennies<br />which is not far away<br /> will round off Karl's day<br />by upsetting those tables<br />and clearing the temple<br />(with the ghost of Bob Semple!)<br /><br />So go easy on Goffy<br />yes he's yesterday's chum<br />but so are we all<br />and tomorrow will come.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-49389251884816224122009-08-21T20:06:20.297+12:002009-08-21T20:06:20.297+12:00So Chris
What has National done during this time?...So Chris<br /><br />What has National done during this time? And what does it stand for?<br /><br />You wrote an extraordinarily good column in the late 1990s when you said that "community" was the new left, where community people were the new trade unionists, where the class struggle had been replaced by the networkers opposing those who sought to maximise their individual wealth at the expense of all others.<br /><br />The trade unions are regrettibly possibly dying out. But the people who would otherwise have been staunch trade unionists are appearing in other roles. <br /><br />If you care to interview the new wave of Labour activists they will not be singing kumbayah, they will have a sophisticated view of climate change, of globalisation, and of why corporate control is so bad for ordinary people.<br /><br />The Labour leadership is perhaps struggling to understand this. But ignore the activists at your peril.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16293708548352713924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-58744246121992249022009-08-21T16:03:58.905+12:002009-08-21T16:03:58.905+12:00Strong stuff, Mr Trotter but pretty accurate from ...Strong stuff, Mr Trotter but pretty accurate from where I sit as a bemused Gnat watching these guys floundering on the mudflats after the tide has gone out.<br /><br />The question is, though - how long will it take them to wake up and regroup? Two years, five years? Will John Key turn out to be the Robert Gordon Menzies of NZ politics?Adolf Fiinkenseinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08045358863278087055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-361043258613950542009-08-21T15:24:24.332+12:002009-08-21T15:24:24.332+12:00Scary ain't it. heh..Scary ain't it. heh..David Baigentnoreply@blogger.com