Transsexual MP greets the Queen as she lands in New Zealand

Telegraph ^ | 23/02/2002 | Caroline Davies

[shaggy eel]

,,, Helen Clark's strategy is going according to plan. Smash defense, strain relations with Aussie and the US; become a republic (leaving NZ non-aligned) and await further orders from Beijing.

[shaggy eel]

,,, shall I pencil you in for a room at the Huka Lodge with Georgina Beyer (pumpkin included)?

[shaggy eel]

,,, first to split the atom; first to climb Mt Everest; first to give women the vote; first to introduce a queen to a Queen. What a country.

[cynicom]

nick...

The Queen told the pilot to take here away to Fairyland, he knew without asking and took flight to Zealand. hehehehe

[New Zealander]

"The idea of a nation such as New Zealand being ruled by a head of state some 20,000 kilometres away is absurd," she [clark] said in a speech to the London School of Economics.

Bollicks - what is absurd is that clark is 20 000kM away while the Queen is here. What the hell is she thinking? I just can't believe this vindictive snub - that cow has got to realise that she is never going to play a role in the history of New Zealand that remotely compares to that of England. The queen as head of state, the flag, knighthoods - these are not fickle fashions that can be changed by whim. Who the hell does helen think she is?

[shaggy eel]

,,, she's Beijing's girl.

[shaggy eel]

ping

[cynicom]

Clark=Loonytoon in Lollypopville....hehehehe

[shaggy eel]

,,, smack on the money.

[rintense]

What is the deal with Clark and China? Is she looking to make NZ another Taiwan? Where do Kiwi's stand on all this?

[shaggy eel]

,,, no, not another Taiwan, another China. There are no advantages for New Zealand in anything Clark has done since she's been in power. It's all deconstructive. Nothing is geared for a good future for New Zealand, actually quite the reverse.

The next disaster in waiting is our fast track ratification of the Kyoto Protocol. That will screw up NZ's industrial and agricultural producers beyond belief.

[mgstarr]

I could be banned from FR if I used the expletives I'd like to describe Ms. Clark.

She's given National and ACT more than enough political ammunition to use against her at the next general election, I only pray she's defeated next time around. If not, I'm going to be one unhappy immigrant next year.

She's not only shown herself to be an utter disgrace as PM, but she's proven to be an embarrasment to New Zealanders.

[shaggy eel]

BTTT

[ken21]

i bet they all were wearing those goofy-looking hats that the queen mum and queens wear.

[marshmallow]

How sad. New Zealand has gone down the road of political correctness and liberalism with the accelerator flat to the floor.

A generation or two ago, Clark's behavior would have caused an uproar and would have resulted in a diplomatic incident, with protests at the highest levels. From my time in NZ, I thought that there was an absence of a real, articulate, principled conservative voice. Even the so called conservatives seemed liberal and too concerned about stepping on peoples' toes. Particularly the toes of that indigenous race of uneducated, lazy, welfare-dependents known as the Maori.

Clark may think that she is making a political statement, but it really says more about her own manners and personality.

[dighton]

Bump for the Telegraph's naughty naughty headline-writers.

[Brian Allen]

..... first to split the atom; first to climb Mt Everest .....

You're stretching a bit there, shaggs.

The Hunt Everest Expedition was British and Ernest Rutherford worked in Britain at Manchester's Victoria University. It follows, I therefore venture, that his achievements, too, were -- and should be seen as -- British.

But the obscene Clarke is New Zealand's. And New Zealand is welcome to -- and apparently deserves -- that foul and common and vulgar cow. And all of her/its appointees.

[shaggy eel]

,,, the Hunt Everest expedition? There's as much credibility to that as there is wind on the moon to make the Stars and Stripes flutter. [LOL]

[shaggy eel]

,,, as for Rutherford, the hardware used in the process was British, the location where it took place was in England - widely known. If it had been left to the Brits though, they'd still be standing around saying in unison "I'm not doing it, it's not my job!"