Sanctimonious pooh-bahs

A letter to the Editor of the Dominion Post published today.

So Sir Paul Reeves and his assortment of sanctimonious pooh-bahs are now pressing to have low-priced table wines removed from supermarket shelves, on the fatuous assumption that that will reduce binge drinking.

It’s yet another example of attempting to impose punitive legislation on the nation as a whole, when a particular problem seems too difficult to solve.

We had more than enough of this, surely, when former prime minister Helen Clark was running the show?

It is also an example of elitism that I would expect from Reeves and Co.

His plan, if implemented, would price these quaffing wines out of reach of the low-waged – at no such cost to the Reeves contingent, of course.

In advance of legislation, I would like all these Reevesians, who know what’s best for us, to commit publicly to abstain from the pleasures of table wines if even only one person has been forced to do so by socially engineered price hikes. Pigs will fly, as ever.

MALCOLM GEARD

Karori

Right on Mr Geard – sanctimonious pooh-bahs, well said Sir!

Come to think of it whilst sanctimonious is right, they may only be Pooh-Bahs in their own imagination or as Private Eye might have it, legends in their own lunchtime

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