Sunday, August 05, 2007

Some 'noise'

Deborah Coddington's Herald on Sunday column today is also about the child abuse problem. Her angle is, politically nothing is going to change.

Act, the only party ever to have a half-decent welfare policy, has confused libertarian with libertine and reinvented itself as the "fun party", fiddling while Rome burns.

I understand that Rodney is the target of Deborah's anti-ACT barbs. But "fiddling while Rome burns" is rather unfair to Heather (who has never had a bad word for Deborah). This is Heather's area. Not Rodney's. Last week she had this and this to say. She is working as hard as any other social services spokesperson to present ACT's ideas about what would make a difference. And the quality of that presentation is better than most.

2 comments:

Berend de Boer said...

Deborah is currently just a sad case. Don't waste your energy on her.

Anonymous said...

Agreed. She is sad and bitter and was never that bright to begin with. When she got to parliament I had high hopes for her but she was a dismal performer without the stamina or mental ability to stand up to the pressure. She cracked and was seen as a failure and now she's looking to attack her compatriots because she's bitter about her own underperformance.