C.R.A.P. leader slams politicians

Press, Issue 33845, 17 May 1975, Page 1

C.R.A.P. leader slams politicians

Publicity-hungry twits without scruple — that is today’s image of politicians, according to Mr A. K. Gee, the leader of 'CJLn.P. (Campaign for the Removal of Awful Politicians). Mr Gee, himself a politician, strongly criticised the profession at the Ludicrous Trendy Middle-Class Values Party conference in Ohoka. “Politicians are seen as good to have on your side if you have voted for them, otherwise only to be trusted to spout the most appalling drivel,” Mr Gee said at Ohoka yesterday. “Very much of what poli-

ticians do is of little use to anybody,” he said. It was reported recently that the average income of the average Ludicrous Trendy Middle-Class Values Party Leader in 1973-74 was $13.84. “This would seem to indicate that Ludicrous Trendy Middle-Class Values Party Leaders are the least valuable group in our society.” “I agree with this assessment,” Mr Gee said. On the other hand. Ludicrous Trendy Middle-Class Values Party Leaders received 18 times as much newspaper publicity as the average lawyer or carpenter.

“This cannot be right,” Mr Gee said. Largely because of New Zealand’s political system, the House of Representatives was full of politicians and had become a quagmire of verbal drivel and pointless abuse. “And that is what it is like before we even have one representative in the House,” Mr Gee. “Just wait till we occupy a Parliamentary seat. Then the public will really learn what Zero Intellectual Growth is all about” Mr Gep was strongly critical of the amount of column-inches devoted in newspapers to rubbish

spouted by politicians like himself.

“It is getting to the stage where I only have to open my mouth and say something stupid to get written up,” he said. “This is particularly so if I indulge in some quite unjustifiable but headlinecatching attack on a group of professional people about whom the public is always ready to believe the worst,” said Mr Gee. “For example, if as I am now doing, I attack my fellow politicians, the public will believe what I say to be true because 1 am a politician myself. "Only I and my fellow

politicians will realise that what I am saying is the most arrant piffle.

“And the beauty of tho scheme is that when my fellow politicians reply, their replies will be dismissed as self interested special pleading. ‘T only wish that I was a lawyer so that I could have a go at them. “They would be easy meat for an expert mediamanipulator like myself. “Then I would like to become a doctor and hoe into them.

“After all, who needs them? We’re all going to die anyway.”