My local member of Parliament is one of the leading campaigners against the so-called 'fart tax',a levy on farmers for research into greenhouse gas emissions from livestock.
Hardly surprising,really,since
1/he's currently in the opposition party
2/a good proportion of his electorate are farmers
3/he's a farm owner himself.
Yesterday he did something incredibly stupid.
http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/dailynews/0...5a6002,00.html
If I were to try a stunt like that in my car,I'd probaly be dragged out of the driver's seat,handcuffed,and slung in jail.And quite rightly too.How can we be expected to respect our government officials when they pull stupid stunts like this.
The man's a self-interested and self-publicising fuckwit.He has done damn-all since being elected,except destroy the massive majority that the previous representative left for him.