Clarks drops another lie in debate

In the TV3 Leaders debate between John Key and Helen Clark tonight, Helen Clark lied about the shower restrictions that Shane Jones was going to introduce in February 2009.

She said nothing of the sort was being, or had been contemplated but we all know there was a Labour working party doing research on it and it is a fact that it was going to be introduced next year.

Labour dropped back when there was the logical public outcry so close to a general election and they then considered relaxing shower head flow from 6 litres a minute to 9.

If elected Labour will introduce this law and many other nanny state laws like it. It has been par for the course for the last  9 years and simply would be out of character for Labour to change their ways.

c Political Animal 2008

Dont vote Labour because: Shower head restrictions

A series of advertising messages urging you not to vote Labour this Saturday 8 November.

Labour will restrict the water flow in your shower should we be unlucky enough to have them back again in November.

Baths will be next on the list and a whole series of other related household interference looks set to follow.

They have already banned regular lightbulbs and open fireplaces that use renewable wood, dont let your flow be resticted to a trickle.

Vote against nanny statism, dont vote Labour this November 8.

c Political Animal 2008

Freedom Killer

Restrictions on what we can eat, drink, smoke, what we can say, how our kids play at school and whether we can discipline them, what light bulbs we can use at home, and now restrictions on how much water we can use when we are in our showers.

The Labour Party have passed new building legislation that will come into force in February that means all new houses and bathroom renovations will have their showers water flow restricted by law by 60%.

WHAT BUSINESS IS IT OF THE LABOUR PARTY WHAT WE DO IN OUR SHOWERS ? !!

I have lots of questions.

How will this restriction be enforced? 

Will we have shower police? 

Will we have web connected cameras ensuring we don't use too much water or power?

Will Jeanette Fitzsimons and Helen Clark be sharing a shower to save water?

The truth is it ain't funny at all. These small things are all attacks on our freedoms and these communistic type attacks on our way of life need to stop.

Who do these bastards think they are?  

The fact they can even contemplate these sorts of bizarre ideas and put them out there as "normal" behaviour just defies belief and commonsense.

An Editorial in Hawkesbay Today sums things up well for me:

What have New Zealanders done to deserve the growth of a culture of such busybody legislation? Is there nothing that can escape the dreadful ambitions of ideologues committed to straightening "the crooked timber of humanity"? It is but another example of creeping control that invades our lives for no other reason than a presumption that the state and its institutions know, far better than we do, how we ought to behave.

Hawkesbay Today Editorial

The Editor is discussing the banning of wood burners in my hometown of Hastings(a very cold place in Winter) and the merits of using heat pumps instead-don't we have a power shortage?

Of course the Greens and Labour who have pushed the banning of home fires forget that a locally sourced form of heat is far more efficient that electricity used in a heat pump because that electricity has to travel hundreds of miles to get to the source.

Bugger practicality though, as long as it fits the bizarre green agenda that Labour and its supporters push it is OK.

Hang on a sec, if I cant have a decent shower why don't I just have a bath instead.

Ah oh, baths could be next on the ban list.

c Political Animal 2008