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Thursday, March 21, 2024

Cam Slater: Hipkins’s New Strategy - Being a Dork


Chris Hipkins seems to have adopted a new strategy since losing the election: being a dork. Worse, he is being a dork dripping with disdain and disrespect. He is also using the tried and true tactic of every opposition leader since forever: chasing every passing car like a proverbial mad dog. It is rather unbecoming.

This week we have seen him call Winston Peters a “drunk uncle” and then, yesterday in the House, his questioning of the Prime Minister was quite pathetic.

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Look, far be it for me to tell Chris Hipkins what to do but he seriously needs to have a cup of tea and a lie down because he is just making an arse of himself.

His attack on Winston Peters blew up in his face when Winston mocked him about being so weak he’d get drunk on a wine biscuit. I suppose when you drink pink cocktails, that kind of opens you up to ridicule, almost as bad as drinking shandies.

Battling Winston with wit and charm is always a forlorn task, especially when you have neither.

His petulance in the house is laughable. He looks the school swot and dobber always chipping away, mainly because he is yet to be taken behind the bike sheds for a good old-fashioned walloping.

He thinks he’s being clever, but in reality he just looks like a disrespectful, disdainful, dork: a look he has down pat with his bobbly head and fly-catching, open-mouth and inane grins when he thinks he’s said something clever.

Cam Slater is a New Zealand-based blogger, best known for his role in Dirty Politics and publishing the Whale Oil Beef Hooked blog, which operated from 2005 until it closed in 2019. Cam blogs regularly on the BFD - where this article was sourced.

2 comments:

JamesA said...

I'll never get back the hour I wasted listening to Hipkins on Kerre Woodham's talkback this morning. Need to mention Kudos to Kerri for being so polite to him. Presumably to protect my ongoing mental health the ol' brain immediately forgot most of the nauseating politically driven drivel spouted by Hipkins. Sadly, the bit where Hipkins pretended that Labour, under him, had achieved a number of positive outcomes for New Zealanders.has stuck. It simply won't leave my memory. Has anybody advice on how to forget that bit?

The only positive outcome of the 'hour' is Hipkins popularity will fall even further, taking Labour with him.

AlanG said...

Yes Hipkins is being a total dork, always has and always will but it would help if Luxon et al would actually just answer the question. Normally just Yes or No would do. It is so tiresome watching politicians act like this.