Congratulations to the voters of New Zealand. You have finally made it to the top of an international list. New Zealand has topped the charts as the most credulous bunch of people in the Western World.

It seems that if a politician (let’s just say a Dipshit from Dipton) tells the New Zealand people that his opponents are bringing in a new tax enough times, despite the fact it is a total lie, they will believe it.

It is also apparent that if his innumerate Piggy Bank Minister says there is an $11.4b

hole in their opponents’ fiscal policy, they will also believe him over the combined weight of all the economic experts in the country.

Then if that same party tells them that their opponents will tax all the farmers out of business when accurate costings by (you guessed it) the most recognised experts in the country say that no such thing will happen with regards to the proposed water levy, they will still believe the man with his pants quite clearly engulfed in flames.

When all of that happens, I should say congratulations to those behind the plan to dumb down this nation. Your evil plan has succeeded beyond your wildest dreams. The nation’s ability to comprehend the difference between an outright lie and a complete fantasy has evaporated.

One look at the kind of fare served up on your television screen each week will give you a clue as to how this process has worked. “Reality” TV programmes dominate the offerings and for some reason that defies logic the vast majority of views seem to believe they are actually a slice of real life. It never seems to occur to them that (a) these people know they are being watched and are playing up to that and (b) they have been hand-picked by the producers to fit the plan for the programme and (c) the entire concept of such programmes is a scripted set-up.

Mind you, this should not really come as a surprise that people believe this stuff. After all this is the same country where police can use ‘jailhouse witnesses’ to convict innocent people of murders and even when the ‘facts’ don’t add up, our juries believe the liars and convict those people. The public then believe the conviction because they can’t accept that there are corrupt cops in New Zealand, despite the disturbing number of convictions that have been overturned after 15 or 20 years and we taxpayers have had to fund eye watering amounts of compensation that should have been sheeted home to the liars who brought this about.

Even after those so-called jailhouse witnesses (who after all were convicted criminals whose evidence should have been doubted from the start) have been found to have lied, we still keep those innocent men behind bars. The corrupt cops who put them there inevitably walk away without any consequences. Sounds like what just happened doesn’t it?

While I am deeply disappointed at the prospect of Kiwis being the dumbest dumb-arses on the planet, that pales into insignificance with the possibility that they aren’t. Because if Kiwis aren’t the dumbest voters to ever enter a ballot box, then the only other explanation is that they are perfectly comfortable voting for a party that will blatantly tell every lie they can possibly think up in order to win an election.

Hopefully the situation can be saved on this occasion and with a little help from our friends in the form of the special votes, Labour, The Greens and NZ First will be able to put together a Government to keep these serial liars off our treasury benches. We desperately need to bring some degree of equality back to the country that used to lead the world in giving people a fair go and whose citizens used to be good buggers.