Bloody Hell!!!!….I agree with you.

Places get a culture that can get entrenched, and that drives out some really good people who don’t fit into that culture. It would be nice to see a healthier culture in Parliament and elsewhere. By this I mean a culture that I think is healthier - where people don’t always agree, but treat each other with honesty and respect.

You forgot Dyson, Klarke, King and Wilson…at least try and be fair.

eredwen..you obviously haven’t seen judith collins in full ‘nasty’ mode..

that act person/former mp..(newman?).cor..!..she was a right purler..wasn’t she..?

.jenny shipley..?…’strewth’ richardson..?

to my mind the gutting of the social welfare system by those two was light years more offensive than any male ‘pissing contests’….

and it is also a woman who has compunded those offenses…by not ‘putting them right’ when it has been within her power to do so..

and of course it was her who trumpeted ‘working for families’…..eh..?

that most recent kick in the guts to benificiaries..

and you’ve obviously not met some of the ‘women’/sisters who work at work and income…

some of them’d be as nasty as you can get….

nastiness compounds quite tidily with abuse of limited powers..

and is not necessarily gender-specific…eredwen..(tsk tsk..you old sexist you..!..)

eh..?

phil(whoar.co.nz)

and you’ll notice i haven’t i haven’t even gone near the green ‘ladies’ of our mutual acquaintance..eh..?

no nasty backstabbing stuff going on there..eh..?

esp. during the leadership contest..eh..?whoar..!…

(there’s a right potboiler of a story just there..eh..?)

December 8th, 2006 at 12:07 am
Prim:

Well said!
Almost invariably the badly behaviour is from male MPs.

For these puerile performers, “pissing contests�, “put downs� and other publicity seeking behaviour doesn’t stop at primary school.

Very tedious! …and to mimick our rightwing contributors here …
“I OBJECT to my hard earned tax money going to pay their unearned salaries.�

Eredwen

I would have thought that you might have moved on from the school yard, these “girls are better than boys” arguments are tedious and immature, sadly it seems that the sisterhood is alive and well in the Greens.

I suppose you take no notice of the “put downs” and other “publicity seeking behaviour” so common in the wimin of the left.

I am constantly amazed that you have such little time for those who disagree with you, I am seeing a new side of Green politics here, it is a side that I do not like very much.

Well said!
Almost invariably the badly behaviour is from male MPs.

For these puerile performers, “pissing contests”, “put downs” and other publicity seeking behaviour doesn’t stop at primary school.

Very tedious! …and to mimick our rightwing contributors here …
“I OBJECT to my hard earned tax money going to pay their unearned salaries.”

I would like to say that the kind of behaviour to which frog refers would not be tolerated in any professional office environment, but it goes on there as well. “Politics”. It drives decent people out.

There has to be a better way.

neat one!

bj has yet to catch up with our Kiwi sense of humour.

Because the bumper sticker said so!

Seriously, BJ, I too believe in questioning authority - or making constructive suggestions - when I think that it is reasonable to do so. You may have found that approach quite useful in your work. In my experience, “authorities” often change their views and approaches anyway.