John Key and Rodney Hide have something in common - they both used to be part of the Christchurch working class.

Rodders has just accepted the post of Associate Minister of...ummmmm....who cares? in the Government of John Key.

How pathetic.

This is just typical of Christchurch working class people, a demographic I know a great deal about.

There was a four year period when I lived in Christchurch and apart from a couple of overseas holidays never bothered to leave the 'Four Avenues' so busy was I partying and shagging my way through vast numbers of these chaps....("more plentiful than hors d' oeuvres" as my friend Carl used to say)

I reviewed my diaries in order to write this post and it seems the figure is around 1.12 chaps per day for four years...(gosh! was it THAT many?!?!)...and as such, I am therefore an absolute expert on Christchurch working class chaps.

One thing which always stuck me about Christchurch working class people is how inferior and inept they feel when in the presence of someone...well..ummmmm...someone like me.
I never even had much of a problem 'pulling rank' and bedding supposedly heterosexual chaps, and those in two minds were ususally sorted with a slap across the mouth, and as subservient people go you cannot get much better than these sorts of chaps...*wink*

It is no great surprise then that Rodney, being 'socially inferior' to almost everybody, slunk into John Key's office and said "please, Sir, if it is not too much trouble, I will help you create a communist republic but can you please, please make me a junior minister?"

Contrast that with what I would have done....

I would have walked into John Key's office and immediately spotting him as a member of the Christchurch working class (and therefore subservient and 'pulling rank-able') would have said "Ah, Mr Key, I will be Deputy Prime Minister, and want the portfolio of [write whatever you want here], will give the final signoff on major decisions oh, and go and make me a cup of tea with milk and two sugars" ....to which he would have unhesitatingly jumped up and done.

This is the great joy of privilege, rank and superiority...the only life I have known since the age of about 10.

This is something the Rodders of the World will never know, and do not have the balls to go out and 'take' in any event.

Enjoy your Junior Minister irrelevancy ...gosh...how pathetic you ACT chaps are.