G'day cobber...

...while Kiwis don't like to seem smug, and have had to get used to failure and mediocrity quite a lot lately, they are naturally quite shy and would hesitate to talk to an Aussie about THE BLEDISLOE CUP, or even ask about THE ASHES. Meanwhile, Prime Ministers John Key and Kevin Rudd are doing a lot of talking, and are concerned about steering NZ and Australia ever closer politically. The MSM like to report on such issues as transtasman trade and travel and a new joint ANZAC rapid response force.They would rather overlook of course (apart from the esteemed Australian) the chaos unravelling in the backrooms over the question of climate change management. Here both governments are in a classic lose-lose scenario. Whatever they decide to do it will not, (and we know it, and they know it too) in any way whatsoever effect climate change. LOSE. Whatever they decide to do it will not be enough to placate the desperate and loopy greens and their loopier supporters. LOSE. Whatever they decide to do, it (unless they do nothing at all) will cost all of us dear in increased utility prices and taxes. LOSE LOSE. It is no wonder then, that in Australia the opposition National/Liberal coalition is unwinding, and in NZ, we have a farce worthy of Sir Humphry and Yes Minister, where green sounding sanctimonious platitudes and fence sitting have become an art form.

If you were a Green MP named Sue Bradford you'd want to cry over all this. And if you did, you'd want to weep bucketfuls of tears to wash away all the eggs and custard pie off your fat face. (For expats and foreigners, Bradford's attempt at subverting the Kiwi family via her private members bill has been rejected by a whopping 88% of participants in a referendum.) The greenest part of Ms Bradford today will be around her more than ample gills. But dry your eyes Sue my sweet, and tuck into some of that custard pie dripping off your chops, you know you want to...

Show me a lefty "progressive", and I'll show you home wrecker...

...the forthcoming referendum on Sue Bradford's anti-smacking bill is a custard pie in the face of the left. It's not so much that the general public are aggrieved over the attempted criminalisation of smacking, it's simply the fact that they recognise in Sue Bradford a true subversive, and see in her ham fisted attempts at law making an attempt to subvert the traditional Mum, Dad and the kids family.

Melanie Phillips reports that the UK Tories are about to announce a far reaching policy that will develop and respect and not subvert, the family...

...The family is the building block of society. If the institution of the family is broken, society breaks with it.
That is what has happened in Britain over the past four decades as part of a deliberate attempt by the ‘progressive’ intelligentsia to reshape society around the unrestrained gratification of adult sexual desire under the banners of ‘liberation’, ‘equality’ and ‘rights’.
As a result, nearly half of all babies are now born outside marriage; Britain has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in Europe; and women and children are at far greater risk of sexual and physical abuse.
Children from fractured homes do worse in general in every single area of their lives. As the High Court judge Sir Paul Coleridge recently observed, the family courts are overwhelmed with cases involving damaged, miserable or disturbed children...more here...

...every word of Melanie Phillips' article is applicable to NZ. Our statistics are every bit as shameful and horrifying, and even more shameful is that "progressive" politicians like Sue Bradford have helped create the misery, and now want to extend it further...