Well, where does one - can one possibly, conceivably - even begin...to do proper justice (?)...
...to such an utter sham of a so-called 'census'...not even - remotely - approaching the level of quality sufficient to designate it as a mere sham of one, a 'clayton's census', i.e. a census one has when one isn't taking a proper census...
Hey, even the late great Israeli King David...three-some millennia ago now, without any of our modern, digital gadgetry let alone other sophisticated methods of data gathering and retrieval... managed a damn sight better...
...despite his one being ill-conceived and improperly motivated and prematurely abandoned due to evident divine disapproval...
However its abysmal and abject failure is hardly due alone to the present, relatively newbie Government now in power, the previous, flag-obsessed, Key Government most assuredly sharing a large proportion of the blame thereabouts (in its 'preparation' - not - for said event; all the more pitiful and blameworthy since it had previously had to shelve the planned 2011 census in the aftermath/backwash of the Christchurch/Canterbury earthquakes, so 'having insufficient time to plan' can hardly be given as any kind of reasonable excuse)...
...though Minister Shaw's attempts to duck and dive and squirm in and out of any sort of half-decent semblance even of due and appropriate accountability thereabouts is truly a wonder to behold...
...no doubt, rather than addressing that issue when asked in Parliament yesterday, he was actually hallucinating...believing himself rather to be auditioning for his unfulfilled lifelong dream of the starring role in John Cleese's inimitable 'Minister of Silly Walks'...
Yet I must 'declare my own interest' in this matter, having myself unsuccessfully applied - with earnest and intense, and, I'd add, a rather superb effort thereabouts - to get some sort of a job in the vote-counting for General Election 2017 (aside from that on the one main official 'day' of voting, the biblical Sabbath itself)...
Suffice to say that my credentials themselves - let alone my eloquent expression thereof - were not only quite salient, but the very qualification most needed in such a position, i.e. (compared to most partisan party supporters) political impartiality/neutrality on a major scale, but, moreover, a degree of honesty and integrity that they'd arguably rarely encounter...and, more's to the point, that I'd argue I made quite a coherent and cogent demonstration, yea, even proof, of, throughout my covering letter...
...to such an utter sham of a so-called 'census'...not even - remotely - approaching the level of quality sufficient to designate it as a mere sham of one, a 'clayton's census', i.e. a census one has when one isn't taking a proper census...
Hey, even the late great Israeli King David...three-some millennia ago now, without any of our modern, digital gadgetry let alone other sophisticated methods of data gathering and retrieval... managed a damn sight better...
...despite his one being ill-conceived and improperly motivated and prematurely abandoned due to evident divine disapproval...
However its abysmal and abject failure is hardly due alone to the present, relatively newbie Government now in power, the previous, flag-obsessed, Key Government most assuredly sharing a large proportion of the blame thereabouts (in its 'preparation' - not - for said event; all the more pitiful and blameworthy since it had previously had to shelve the planned 2011 census in the aftermath/backwash of the Christchurch/Canterbury earthquakes, so 'having insufficient time to plan' can hardly be given as any kind of reasonable excuse)...
...though Minister Shaw's attempts to duck and dive and squirm in and out of any sort of half-decent semblance even of due and appropriate accountability thereabouts is truly a wonder to behold...
...no doubt, rather than addressing that issue when asked in Parliament yesterday, he was actually hallucinating...believing himself rather to be auditioning for his unfulfilled lifelong dream of the starring role in John Cleese's inimitable 'Minister of Silly Walks'...
Yet I must 'declare my own interest' in this matter, having myself unsuccessfully applied - with earnest and intense, and, I'd add, a rather superb effort thereabouts - to get some sort of a job in the vote-counting for General Election 2017 (aside from that on the one main official 'day' of voting, the biblical Sabbath itself)...
Suffice to say that my credentials themselves - let alone my eloquent expression thereof - were not only quite salient, but the very qualification most needed in such a position, i.e. (compared to most partisan party supporters) political impartiality/neutrality on a major scale, but, moreover, a degree of honesty and integrity that they'd arguably rarely encounter...and, more's to the point, that I'd argue I made quite a coherent and cogent demonstration, yea, even proof, of, throughout my covering letter...
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