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Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Goodbye Mr N. ...

(with sincere apologies to Elton John and Bernie Taupin)

Goodbye Mr N.
Though I never knew you at all
You tried to create a presence
While those around you brawled
They crawled out of the chambers
And they whispered into your brain
They set you on a treadmill
And they tempted you with fame.

And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a spokesman of the firm
Never knowing who to cling to
When other water options were learned
And I would have liked to have known you
But I was not kindred
Your letters dried up long before
The water ever did.

Getting signatures was tough
The toughest role you ever played
Council looked for a saviour
And falling short was the price you paid
Even when you left
Oh the press still hounded you
All the papers had to say
Was that your petition ended in the loo.

And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a spokesman without doubt
Never knowing who to cling to
When the truth came out
And I would have liked to have known you
But I was not kindred
Your letters dried up long before
The water ever did.

Goodbye Mr N.
From the silent majority
Who saw you as less of a saviour
But as someone obsessed with wee.

And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a spokesman who enjoyed a whinge
Never knowing who to cling to
When the rain set in
And I would have liked to have known you
But I was not kindred
Your letters dried up long before
The water ever did ...

17 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Mr N. should at least show how many signatures he did get. Do you think they even got 4500?
I also think it is terrible that the Water Futures were in private schools tell children about their plan and also telling the children that there is no other water, is this child abuse or what?

10:50 PM, March 27, 2006

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If he doesn't present the petition, then he got a big fat zero.

2:43 AM, March 28, 2006

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yes and he is in todays chronicle whinging that CADS signatories will have a chance to change their mind with a referumdum.

People have made up their minds, THEY DON'T WANT TO DRINK, SHOWER OR COOK IN RECYCLED SEWAGE!

7:17 AM, March 28, 2006

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

St Marys school won't have to worry about a flood of enrolements for next year while that crack pot is there. I personally know of two children who have been taken out of that school because of their backing of the project. He is a real looser.

9:39 AM, March 28, 2006

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Please don't ask questions but an insider told me Mr N didn't get 2 thousand "legal" signatures.
I kept wondering how he was going to get out of this one. Stall, keep stalling and ...nothing
Mr N would have been better off going with the excuse that the dog ate the petition.

10:04 AM, March 28, 2006

 
Blogger Concerned Ratepayer said...

And then there's Kirsten bleating in a letter about "many in our community already favour recycling [for drinking?] as proven by the Pure H2O petition results."

What petition results?

No-one has seen their petition.

10:37 AM, March 28, 2006

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

the dog ate the petition - funny.

10:48 AM, March 28, 2006

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

agree - anyone who signed the CADS petition probably doesn't want to change their mind - if anything they're more against the mayor's plan than before.

11:04 AM, March 28, 2006

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

And then he's insulting Springborg and Horan in the letters page - he sure knows how to win friends.

11:27 AM, March 28, 2006

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If Water Futures were in private schools telling children there is no other water then we should make a complaint to the State Education Department or the State Ombudsman.
As for Mr N, I am surprised he can keep a straight face, given he has been screwed over by his own misguided agenda.

12:33 PM, March 28, 2006

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's terrible to scare the children by telling them there are no other options - just shows you what we're dealing with.

1:11 PM, March 28, 2006

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

how many marks would he give a student who failed to turn in his homework? zero - he gets the same mark for failing to turn in a petition.

2:17 PM, March 28, 2006

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Their problem was that they were the puppets of the Council and their advisory panel - they shoved Mr N. out the front and tried to look like a credible independent outfit.

They should have known the writing was on the wall when only a dozen or so plus the council ladies turned up to their grand balloon launch at the mothers memorial.

5:21 PM, March 28, 2006

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

And their secret shall remain just that.

10:51 PM, March 28, 2006

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Outplayed, outclassed, outlasted - now onto the council.

11:19 PM, March 28, 2006

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

For someone who has retired from the debate, he seems to be spending an awful lot of time in front of the WIN News camera!

1:29 AM, April 01, 2006

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Remember the dummy spit when he made accusations (incorrectly) that his website had been hacked.

4:40 PM, April 03, 2006

 

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