Motorcade MadnessIf you're not a NZer, or have been sheltering in an ice-cave in the Southern Alps for the last week or so, you may not be aware of the furore that has arisen over the PM's motorcade dash to Christchurch Airport last week (in order to catch a flight in time to make the All Blacks v. Australia game in Wellington).

Anyway, the story's being doing the usual rounds, with Russell Brown wondering 'why all the fuss' (and then, as pnn adroitly points out, continuing to dedicate an entire column to the topic), pnn compares Clark to a spoilt rich-girl, and, amazingly enough, nzpundit nearly sees eye-to-eye with Russell by saying...

What a load of croc. Trying to organise the PMs schedule (from whatever party) would be a nightmare and I am well aware the the Crown Drivers (with their police escort) regularly make up time to catch planes and make appointments. So they should. It's common for Leaders around the world to be given a jump on the traffic.

(But not before slagging Clark off for her support of the arts, race relations record, international relations, blah blah blah...).

But the best bit of comment I've seen is from Labour MP John Tamihere, a member of the PM's cabinet, and whose brother David is serving time for the murder of two Swedish tourists. John, writing about the motorcade kerfuffle on his blog says...

The only experience I have had like it back home was the time I was the passenger in a car driven by my brother who was strangely blind and deaf to the lights, sirens and exhortations of the police car following to pull over...

Classic.

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