I have slept on this, and now that I have a new day before me and I can perhaps view things in their proper perspective, can I say:
Christine Rankin as families commissioner? W T monkey-fighting F is this insanity?
And she was offered the children’s commissioner position before that? (Can’t find a linky for this, it was in the Dom Post yesterday.)
For the furriners who have made the mistake of reading this far:
* Take the most divisive public argument in recent NZ history, the so-called “anti-smacking legislation” that removed the defence of reasonable force for prosecutions of physical abuse of children
* Add the most divisive and despised civil servant in the last couple decades, the brash overconfident wonder who took our social safety net provider and ran it gleefully into the ground in the bad old 90s, under a welfare-is-bad National government; she was of course on the side of the reactionaries in the smacking argument
* Serve hot!
Says Ms Rankin: “We need to stop being politically correct.”
*head smash wall – repeat until fade*