Just what are the ongoing rewards for being a GG until death do us part ??

Can any one enlighten me ??

As long as its one way.

This should be the main focus of an Anti-Corruption panel, that is voted for by the populace annually.

We have to resume some control of these donkeys!

;-P

John Key has announced that in line with his new policy for beneficiaries, former PMs and Governor Generals will be required to spend at least 15 hours per week in work, looking for work or re-training if they wish to continue qualifying for their post-employment benefits.

Key says “we’re a government that’s based on fairness for everyone and it would be ridiculous for us to make one set of rules for the disadvantaged and another for the privileged”.

When asked for comment, Helen Clark replied “Bloody Torries, they’ll take the food from a baby’s mouth. Some of us have worked damned hard for those post-employment perks and we’ve had to deny a lot of sick people their entitlements so that there’s money left in the budget to pay for those chauffeurs and air-tickets”

A Greens spokeperson said “we have no problem with the principle but believe that a taxpayer funded tandem with a volunteer rider to provide the motive force would have far less effect on the environment. We’d also move to introduce a lifetime of unlimited bus travel rather than air-travel for the same reasons”

Rodney Hide told our reporter “I’d be keen to drop the lifetime perks in return for dancing lessons and some kind of hairpiece subsidy”

Winston Peters said “Can I transfer the perks to an unnamed charitable trust?”

By the time she arrived at the Beehive, the security guards would have been briefed to tell her I’d been called away on urgent Prime Ministerial business and we’d have to reschedule for next week. But that we’d booked her a bed somewhere grotty above a very noisy pub. Helen would be up all night listening to Winston and the other drunks getting a bit rowdy in the early hours of the morning, then be back on the train at 6am for the return trip to Auckland. It’d break down in Waiouru, but they’d eventually arrive in Auckland via coach at 3am the next day at which point Peter would be rung up to pick her up from the bus station.

I’d secretly video the whole thing and we’d have a laugh at cabinet meetings. Eventually we’d leak the videos on to YouTube.

(1) I don’t begrudge genuine charities a bit of support, but if you are a conference speaker and you have to travel to the conference, you should charge accordingly. (Charge the conference organisers, not me!)

(2) But anyone else is a “bludger” and they should be made to work for it!

Just make sure that she pays her fart tax.

National should fund Clark’s travel after she is booted from office in November. But, due to the need to reduce carbon emissions and because she spent the best part of a billion bucks on trains, they should only fund rail travel. I’d love to see Clark traveling from Wellington to Auckland on a rattly old rust bucket of a train that takes 12 hours or more to get from city to city. And which leaves her sitting at Muri for an hour because of “points failure”, as I did a few weeks ago. The rest of us can just fly or drive.

Alternatively, maybe the question of whether or not a retiring member (not totally convinced that all MPs should be eligible) should be put to some sort of public vote.

Internal Affairs are sure that Bolger is only ever going to travel by train. He’s going to be a passionate advocate for Kiwirail and sustainability and wouldn’t even think of flying.

They work for us. We shouldn’t have to keep on working for them!

Wonder how Jenny feels about that?