Referendum Caption Contest
July 13th, 2010 at 9:00 am by David Farrar
Peter Shirtcliffe from the Put MMP to the Vote Campaign is running a caption contest.
Submit your caption or captions (you can use one or both blank spaces) either as a comment on this post, or by e-mail to Peter.
The winning entry (as judged by Peter) will win a bottle of quality Champagne or an iPod Nano – you decide.
July 13th, 2010 at 9:10 am
List MP: ‘Do either of you know a good cartoonist who knows what the word ‘unelected’ means?’
Vote:July 13th, 2010 at 9:12 am
Over-worked since 1996, Kevin knew the life expectancy of his kind was only 20 years.
*text for speech bubble*
“Keep going! you’re almost there!”
Vote:July 13th, 2010 at 9:21 am
“How can that poor struggling kiwi have so many parasitic pollie nits on its back?”
Vote:July 13th, 2010 at 9:23 am
Spectator: “If that Kiwi could only lift it a little higher he could tip all the F*****s out”
Vote:July 13th, 2010 at 9:28 am
That has got to be one of the worst political cartoons I have seen in quite a while.
What’s with the two guys at the bottom right? They look like a bad facsimile of the Socialist representation of workers.
Doe Peter Shirtcliffe actually think this cartoon is going to influence people to support his position?
Vote:July 13th, 2010 at 9:28 am
Spectator: See that, boy? That’s what happens if don’t you come up with your joke before you start drawing the cartoon.
Vote:July 13th, 2010 at 9:32 am
All (in simultaneous monotone): We must plan an electoral referendum with regard to speed rather than proper decision-making processes. It is good!
Vote:July 13th, 2010 at 9:38 am
How about:
‘The system may not be perfect but it is a damn sight better than any other system’
Vote:July 13th, 2010 at 9:38 am
If Mr. Shirtcliffe is so upset by the concept of “unelected” list MPs, then why does he support the SM option as an alternative?
Vote:July 13th, 2010 at 9:49 am
LOL at “Unelected list MPs.” Does Peter Shirtcliffe know what his party vote is for?
What a ridiculous smear campaign, MMP and “Too Many MPs” are separate issues.
SPEECH BUBBLE:
Vote:July 13th, 2010 at 9:54 am
Danyl if you want to know what unelected means ask Russell Norman.
Vote:July 13th, 2010 at 10:14 am
One road worker to the other: do we have enough rat poison?
Vote:July 13th, 2010 at 10:32 am
The workers: “If I vote to keep MMP in 2011, I can save that poor Kiwi a lot of trouble. So I’ll just do that.”
The “unelected” MP: “Why is your kite pointing in a different direction to the other one? It’s almost as if someone with no talent whatsoever drew this abomination unto the art of cartooning.”
Vote:July 13th, 2010 at 10:39 am
Unelected MPs: “What’s this peak called again? Eyjafjallajökull ? Never heard of it.”
Vote:July 13th, 2010 at 10:45 am
“Whoops, I forgot to tell a joke!”
Vote:July 13th, 2010 at 10:51 am
I might have misunderstood, but is it saying the anti-MMP campaign is long, crooked, shrouded in darkness and apparently about to collapse?
Vote:July 13th, 2010 at 12:01 pm
Oh, okay then…
Worker: She’s a hard road finding the perfect electoral system, but.
MP: Still – not hurry, eh?
I’ll take the champagne, or I’ll have it in pieces of silver if that’s more convenient.
Vote:July 13th, 2010 at 12:05 pm
SPEECH BUBBLE Top.. There’s room for more MPs..
SPEECH BUBBLE Bottom.. Do you think well make it too 2017 before the bottom falls out..
SPEECH BUBBLE Top.. Party Party Party.
SPEECH BUBBLE Bottom.. If we unclip the back end the list MPs will be the first to go..
SPEECH BUBBLE Top.. Help MP overboard..
Vote:SPEECH BUBBLE Bottom.. The split looks about right..
July 13th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
“She can’t take much more of this captain!”
Vote:“We need a push, which of you List MPs want to push?…….. anyone?”
July 13th, 2010 at 12:37 pm
Either: “I thought the gravy-train would have more than one carriage”
Vote:July 13th, 2010 at 2:19 pm
Unelected: I think we’ve got too much of a list
Vote:Spectator: A list? Looks like you’re about to capsize!
July 13th, 2010 at 3:01 pm
Gosman opines:
Me too. A good cartoon needs no speech bubbles to make it intelligible. With this one, no amtetr what you wrote in the blanks it’d still be a case of “WTF?”. Just awful.
Vote:July 13th, 2010 at 3:04 pm
Top Bubble: that kiwi will be ok, pledge cards and credit cards aren’t that heavy.
Vote:Observers: looks like we’ve found the ideal target for a 1080 drop to save the kiwi!
July 13th, 2010 at 6:10 pm
NARROW WINDING ROAD AHEAD.
NOT SUITABLE FOR LONG VEHICLES OR ROOFLESS KIWI-DRAWN MOBILE PARLIAMENTS.
No, flag it, it’s a stupid cartoon. I usually get at least a couple of chuckles from these caption contests, but this fails hard.
Vote:July 13th, 2010 at 8:21 pm
52:
Hoi you two. Give us a push, can’t you see that the lazy Kiwi is slacking?
Workmen:
I’m sorry son that I ever unearthed them in 93.
Vote:If you dig quickly enough we might get the lot buried before we run out of Kiwi’s
July 13th, 2010 at 8:57 pm
The cartoon is pathetic – just as is Shi*tcliffe himself. Wouldn’t he just love a return to the days of gerrymandering, and elections where the popular vote was not reflected in the party proportions in parliament makeup, let alone the overall election result.
Vote:July 13th, 2010 at 10:02 pm
I hope Shirtcliffe doesn’t take the lead role in the campaign this time.
He was well meaning in the original campaign against MMP, but IMHO as Mr Big Business of NZ at the time, Shirtcliffe led many people to assume Big Business was the pposition to MMP, and this stimulated bugger-you support for MMP.
Let Shirtcliffe run the campaign and manage it with his undoubted skill, but find some feisty Laws type to front the opposition.
Vote:July 14th, 2010 at 8:39 am
@Jack5
Lhaws was actually a member of the Electoral Reform Coalition that campaigned for MMP – about the only decent thing he has done in his otherwise malevolent political life.
Vote:July 14th, 2010 at 10:42 am
The major point i see in the MMP referendum argument is that Phil Goff as justice minister didn’t want a review of capital punishment as the people decided in the fifties to do away with it.
Now the govt wants a review of MMP after only a not even a couple of decades.
Methinks the govt agenda is not the peoples…..as usual.
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