I am amazed.

 The headline: 

Ryan Bridge: We need to break away from coalition governments

The story: I urge you to read it.

Mr Bridge usually, from what I see, produces short pieces on popular stories, mostly expounding on the latest fashionable view of those stories. My guess is that those pieces are added to the website by Bridge himself, or by a lackey assigned to the task without editorial supervision of any sort. No wonder then that this column appeared.

Yesterday (If Bridge's timeline is accurate) Government pollies turned up to a meeting with different, opposing views. They then proceeded to discuss those views, working out a compromise on the issue that could work for both parties.

Mr Bridge considers this to be a problem.

No doubt on Mr Bridge's planet the pollies would be banned from any meeting (probably by being imprisoned and shot), no compromise would ever be reached and the PM (Dictator) would advise the survivors of what the only acceptable opinion will be.

I am amazed: Not that this column appeared but that Mr Bridge found his way through his front door to the waiting transport that conveyed him to the NewstalkZB premises allowing him to produce such nonsense. His minders must be very good indeed. 

Pollies. Worth?

 There is a thing that writes columns for NewstalkZB under the name "Jason Walls".

I don't know what this thing is. I thought maybe AI but, based on the headlines, that would be just the "A".

I can only assume it's satire but it doesn't appeal so I don't read it.

The headline this week suggests national pollies deserve more pay. I suspect a national pollie had the keyboard this week.

If pollies, whether at local or national level, were paid what they're worth it would cost most of them large amounts to keep their positions.

A few, probably a dozen or so of the current lot, would be above the break-even point. The rest are parasites.

In my younger years a regularly heard suggestion was to sack the lot of them and put a married couple in to run the place.

I believe that still holds true today.