by frog
A bruising political battle about the Greens has been raging over recent days in the letters pages of the Southland Times between P Clifford and Fulton Long. Letters like these are to the comments section of frogblog in the same way that chess is to checkers. We pick up the saga, part way through, with P Clifford yesterday responding to Fulton Long:
After that Fulton Long was quickly back to the typewriter, and published again this morning:
Hopefully the Southland Times allows this epistle dispute to continue – if so I will endeavour to keep non-Southlanders updated. In the meanwhile for P Clifford’s and Fulton Long’s assurance here is the actual Green Party sandal wearing policy:
Sandal-wearing policy:
- Ban all other footwear but sandals and bare feet
- All sandals must be kiwi-made, fair-trade, organic rubber, vegan-leather and coloured green
- Bare feet can be any colour in recognition of multiculturalism.
- However, because we believe in freedom, socks are optional.
Published in Environment & Resource Management by frog on Tue, July 22nd, 2008
Tags: , Fulton long, letters, P Clifford, sandals, Southland
on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
hilarious! down here on the coast there will be protest though because sandals don’t keep out the cow s* like gumboots do…
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frog said:
Frog, you forgot:
BTW, speaking of recognition of multiculturalism, why is it that when you come across someone wearing socks inside their sandals, they inevitably speak with a German or English accent?
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Colf feet mate, the POHMs and Krauts have cold feet ever since the end of warm fuzzy wednesdays.
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Whoops
Apologies, that Colf should read COLD!
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So you’ve finally come clean about your secret agenda, Frog. No wonder the shoe industry campaigns so desperately against you. Do you also have plans to make the people of New Zealand wear hair shirts, and ban the use of shampoo?
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Apart from bare feet, our family all wear Teva sandals most all of the time.
They are not NZ made, but they last for MANY years, can be worn almost anywhere (… going for a run, instead of tramping boots, or give them a quick wash and wear them with a long skirt …)
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I’m rootin’ for Fulton! He must be a fearless Fed Farmer, made bold by the prospect of unfettered power to the sons of the soil. Hope he doesn’t calm down too soon. Reminds me of Winston!
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“and wear them with a long skirt …”
poor blokes in that family!!!
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The “blokes” in the family tell me that they don’t need your sympathy!!
Among the Greens there are many “weird” people who wear functional (and often “fashionable”) clothing and footwear that can be “mixed and matched”.
(This enables them to walk, run, or ride bicycles, instead of taking the car … while dressing “appropriately” (according to the dictates of this increasingly Consumer Society “without costing the Earth”.
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What is on one’s feet must be the most important thing yet to be discussed here. Far more so than a ‘few dirty rivers’ or ‘a few millionaire farmers at the expense of us all including them’.
No really we should wait until ALL the rivers and streams are so polluted that the cows will have nothing to drink but s**t & p**s, and all the tourists will be able to walk on Algae to reach the other side so they can gawk at all the ‘rich’ dairy farmers.
Roll-on!!
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As the Romans said to each other, we gotta watch out for progress, it might just make our lives better and give the kids better chances than we had.
Or was it a queen who said – yes, I know they all want to have new clothes, but the industrial revolution must be PUT DOWN!
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Eco-friendly sandles and free socks, so laughing to hit the grownd.
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