This Internet Party vid with young people
chanting “Fuck John Key”. Yes, terrible. Young people today, etc.
In 1969 Keith Holyoake, the then Prime Minister (above), held an
election meeting in the Tauranga Town Hall, aka National Party central. It was
open to all. Back then, this was normal. The public could come along and listen
to politicians, question them and even shout at them. Innocent days, before
spin doctors, TV and ruthless party image control.
That night, I sat upstairs with my fellow sixth-former David
Withers and his cassette player, and every time Holyoake said something about
the Vietnam War that annoyed us, David cranked up the volume of his Country Joe
and the Fish tape, the one with the famous obscene version of the Fish cheer:
“Gimme an F, Gimme a U, Gimme a C, Gimme a K. What does that spell?”
David and I chanted along with it. We were thrown out.
Holyoake won a fourth term.
I wonder if these young Internet Party supporters chanting
“Fuck John Key” have really thought this through.
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