Though I'll immediately concede I can't resist some blimin' good alliteration when I stumble across it (if I do say so myself), let's hear it for the much (and often unfairly) maligned Laila Harre (alongside her equally incisive former political colleague Pam Corkery). To wit: for evidencing on last week's TV1 Sunday show that she's someone prepared to back the down-and-out and vulnerable, the neglected, forsaken and forgotten, to the hilt. Including and especially when they're friends, itself showing she 'mixes' - i.e. on a close, personal basis - not only with 'the rich and famous', but with Mr and Ms Average citizen. Unlike so many 'well-connected' politicoes I have little doubt - whatever their rhetoric and PR spin (to the contrary).
Yes, Ms Harre has enough humanity and decency to associate herself with a fellow who is presently being given the runaround by bureaucratic officialize who consider it a mark of their competence to require workers on the lowest echelon paywise (and conditionwise) of New Zealand society to be required to give a running account (and timewise!) of the number of times they wipe their clients' bums... . So who's the real barbarian at the gate of NZ Inc, eh?
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