Terrible advice for Bill English that may be spot on
Here's how you look at the moment, Bill:
Here’s how you look at the moment, Bill:
Tired
Ineffectual
Beaten
Nice
Down
Pleasant
Resigned
Polite
Lost
Moderate
Bewildered
Civil
Unsure
Reasonable
Wet
It’s not working, Sunshine. This girl is having you for breakfast.
What to do? Well, I said it before and I’ll say it again: Man up!
And here’s your new motto, free, gratis and for nothing. (Practice by shouting it from your ninth floor Beehive window.)
I’M MAD AS HELL AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE!
I’M MAD AS HELL AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE!
I’M MAD AS HELL AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANY MORE!
It’s not original and it didn’t end too well for the guy who first used it. But he went too far. And Bill mate, it isn’t in your nature to go too far.
What have you got to lose? Being Leader of the Opposition is a shit job. Just ask anyone who’s been there.
OK! “I’M MAD AS HELL…..”
POSTSCRIPT: In the run-up to the second leaders' debate, Dr Edwards offered the following advice to Bill English:
The current and probable loser is Bill English. A nice enough chap I would say, but no-one who makes it to the top job in politics is ever entirely nice.
Paradoxically, it’s his niceness that’s buggering his chances of keeping his current job. He needs to harden up, to stop playing the gentleman farmer.
I have a deep suspicion that lurking in his deep subconscious is an early message from his mum and dad, an injunction against ever being mean or nasty to females. Laudable advice for every young boy – who has no ambition to pursue a career in politics. And, paradoxically, demeaning to those women.
Man up, Bill! Stop being a wimp. Stop thinking of your opponent as some nice young Kiwi lady. Start thinking Merkel, Thatcher, Golda Meir, Shipley, Clark … strong, confident, determined women who took no prisoners.
Commentator and media trainer Dr Brian Edwards posts at Brian Edwards Media.
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Terrible advice for Bill English that may be spot on
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