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Oily Rag – party promises

Hoardings with smiley faces have appeared like spring mushrooms and politicians are making their three-yearly pilgrimage to your door to share their love – it must be election time.

Not to be denied a soapbox, the Oily Rag community has been out on the hustings, meeting and greeting in supermarket aisles, smiling much while saying little, seeing every infant with a runny nose as a photo opportunity rather than a health risk, and generally encouraging people to give that all important tick of approval to the oily rag cause. Our party message is an all-inclusive one:

“Happiness through frugality – delivering a better brighter future for New Zealand. Let’s frugal this – love frugality”.

Our frugal faithful has even gone as far as publishing the Living off the Smell of an Oily Rag Party Manifesto”. But before looking at some extracts from that policy document here’s a statement from our leader. “An Oily Rag lifestyle is what it means to be a Kiwi at heart. It’s about being a proud and happy husband, wife, partner, father, mother or caregiver so you can look forward to a secure and prosperous future for your children and their children and the children of others if you don’t happen to have any. It’s about having a warm, well-insulated house without any damp, that we can call a happy home, where you are the master of your money. That’s our hope, that’s our vision for a nation of many peoples united not by the colour of their flag but by a single cause: Frugality. And that’s why you should cast a vote for the Living off the Smell of an Oily Rag Party on 23 September. You deserve it, New Zealand.”

 

Here are some of our key election policies.

 

Workplace policy

Free fruit and vegetables

Recycling

Transport policy

Animal welfare policy

The economy

KiwiSaver

The retirement age

And now a concluding remark from our Leader: “Remember, your future is you New Zealand. Be a proud Oily Rag Kiwi – vote for a better future by voting for the Oily Rag Party on Election Day. You deserve it”.

 

By Frank and Dr Muriel Newman.

Read more Oily Rag articles here.

You can contact the Oily Rag community via the website at oilyrag.co.nz or by writing to Living off the Smell of an Oily Rag, PO Box 984, Whangarei.