I Need a Holiday

Recently, Big Jim Anderton, and the Alliance proposed that we should change the law to make the minimum annual leave four weeks. And the New Zealand Labour Party replied, "Fuck off you fat little retard," or at least words to that effect.

Which is an interesting response, considering four weeks annual leave is Labour party policy.

Apparently, they don't think it would be appropriate in the current economic climate. Meaning, of course, they're still busy gargling with the Business Roundtable's cocks. Why they care about what the Business Roundtable thinks, I don't know. After all, anyone who actually listens to what those scrofulous old whorehoppers has to say didn't vote for Labour in the first place, and is never going to. But, since the ECA, Labour have been ducking and covering every time the Roundtable looks sideways at them. Considering what a pathetically weak effort the ECA was, this is very much like sticking your tongue out at an emaciated dwarf, and then hiding in a concrete bunker.

I mean, let's face it, you know who the Business Roundtable are? They're that old man who keeps telling you about how everything was better in his day and that modern music is rubbish. He wants to change things to back the way they were in "his day," in the vain hope that changing everything back will make him young again. The Business Roundtable's "day" was, as near as I can figure, somewhere around the mid-nineteenth century. But they keep assuring me that things were better then, and being sent up a chimney at the age of four with a giant bog-brush stapled to their heads never did them any harm. Well, apart from the testicular cancer and all.

But back to how the Labour Party are a bunch of useless, anaemic bastards. Apparently, we can't have four weeks annual leave, because the resulting 2% increase in the wages bill could put some small companies out of business.

This, I can only assume, is some form of spectacularly obscure joke that I do not understand.

Have these people never, in fact, seen a small business? Do you know what happens in a small business when someone has a day off? Any work that absolutely has to be done then and there gets done by someone else; the rest sits on their desk until they get back. So where's this 2% cost increase? Come on, point it out to me. Where?

The only ones who would see a cost increase from this would be the kind of large companies where if Mr I'mABastardRichCapitalist's secretary takes a day off, they have to bring in a temp to make sure there's someone around to make his fucking coffee. If they can afford to be that prissy, they can afford to be 2% more prissy.

The point of all this is, of course, fuck but I need a holiday.