New Zealand Conservative

The mob is circling, they smell blood, they want Alasdair Thompson's head on a pike. They will quite possibly get it . I heard him on the radio yesterday, heard what he said and knew then that a perfect storm would follow. And it has, his interviews on TV3 last night were disastrous. They were edited of course to make him look as bad as possible but he did loose his cool, a huge mistake in this age of soundbites and twitter. It's all a game really, a little more civilized than it was in medieval times when he would have been pelted with rotten cabbages before possibly being dispatched in gruesome matter but much the same in principle - those who would rule stir up the mob and the mob responds to do their will. I don't suppose it will ever change, human nature being what it is, but I wont play along. This is all about trying to get a piece of left wing grievance legislation passed and if blood must be spilled (metaphorically speaking) along the way so be it.

Women get paid less than men because they need to take monthly "sick days" and extra leave, an employers association boss says . Predictable outrage ensues . It'a all a numbers game really, there are plenty of highly paid women in New Zealand, on salaries that would make the average working stiff's eyes water. Take any two groups of people defined however it suits you and compare their average incomes (or any other parameter for that matter) and they will almost certainly differ. So if it suits your agenda to claim that group A is discriminated against and group A's average salary is lower than group B's you are home. We could play the same game for Catholics/Protestants, Atheists/Christians, Brunettes/Blonds and so forth. Whatever takes your fancy - if you wish to agitate a particular group is discriminated against. A sad fact of life is that it is unfair and people are not equal nor treated equally and while women maybe under represented in the hig...