What was said to Seymour at Gibbs Mansion

Last year at the start of December the Atlas Network think tank named the Taxpayers Union celebrated it's 10th Anniversary by publishing a book ( forwarded by Bill English ) and having a booze up gala event up at the Gibbs Mansion on 400 hectares of farmland looking over the Kaipara.

Like all secret society stories there's an intercom and a gate and those allowed inside are invited soon find themselves strolling around the ground like in the song Mrs Robinson marvelling at how morally ill gotten wealth ( 5% share in the sale of Telecom ) is turned into abstract sculptures and how all that aluminium looks blowing in the wind.

Little did Don Brash or Ruth Richardson or Lockwood Smith realise that present among them that evening - was a young intern named Rhys who had come all the way from an Atlas Network organisation in Subi in Perth named the Mannkal Economic Education Forum - but who can blame them - the Taxpayers Union had 200,000 friends in New Zealand and it wasn't their job to screen the invitations list - and the guest of the evening was Lord Daniel Hannan - a knob end who had become famous for writing in the Daily Telegraph, banging out speeches for British Politicians and appearing on Fox News as a politician on Hannity and Glenn Beck - and generally criticising anything good like the National Health System.

I realise calling a lazy Lord a knob end is out of character but I only do so because I'd discovered Lord Daniel had called those who proposed the return of the Elgin Marbles ( Parthenon Sculptures ) to Athens from the British Museum - guilty of national masochism. Yeah cultural artefacts stolen - should be returned but not according to Lord Daniel Hannan.

Not only that but Lord Daniel Hannan supported the way Boris the Bozo avoided a climate debate - by saying, "Why should we debate the climate emergency? Can you imagine them doing a special debate on the ‘illegal immigration emergency’ or the ‘debt emergency’ or the ‘knife crime emergency’?”

Boris gave Hannan the peerage.

Okay you say maybe he's a Knob - but not a Knob end - well I also discovered Lord Daniel said of anti austerity protestors that they had decided to "indulge their penchant for their empty, futile, self righteous indignation" - as well as saying Covid was not serious all through the Pandemic, and supporting blood sports like Bull fighting...so forgive me ...he's a knob end.

Like most Knob ends Lord Daniel began with flattery to his eye fluttering, low forehead audience, and he praised the mansion and the company and it was time for some warm up jokes to break the knuckle dragging neoliberal ice.

So what better joke to tell than a joke at the expense of voters he used to represent - now that he was a Lord - he could say what he really thought of them - now he no longer needed their votes.

So Daniel told the story of the "Vote No Brexit"days when he door knocked an old farmer about his concerns cos he owned heifers and bulls and who relied on an EU imported substance to get them mating - but when Daniel asked what the substance was called so he could make sure it was supplied post Brexit - the old farmer said he could not rightly recall but it tasted like elderberries ...yes picture Don Brash and Ruth Richardson collapsing on the floor sucking the air like Arnold Horshack as David Seymour twerked involuntarily while the room cracked up.

Lord Daniel was a bad taste card, and he told another story about a kid of ten wearing a smoking jacket and sucking a cigar who answered the door and said his parents were f*cking at home for sure.

Right so now Lord Daniel had Grover ( Jordan Williams and co ) and the rest of the muppets in the palm of his conservative hand.

It was time to suck up to Jordan so Lord Hannan said Jordan was running the biggest Atlas Network taxpayers organisation in the world now - proportionately and spilled the beans that Jordan was the grand Poobah of all Taxpayer Organisations ( Atlas ) world wide.

"Roll Jordan, Roll" cried Lord Daniel as the room cheered...this was some pretty cultish sycophancy but well Jordan was the big chief globally and he'd grown the Atlas Network here.

Lord Hannan added that Jordy Boy had grown the operation here - which was perhaps only second to South Korea where they actively give out tips to avoid tax.

Lord Hannan congratulated Jordan on Three Waters, the end of the Co-Governance Malarky, changing the Central Bank Mandate and other dastardly deeds.

Once again the fundamentalist apes hooted like this was the funniest thing since free market sliced bananas. But what you want to know is what he actually said so here it is.

After the warm up, Lord Hannan repeated verbatim the same speech he gave at the Tax Payers Union HQ - where Shane Jones and Eric Crampton and MPs from National, Act and NZ First had gathered - and this involved urging them to get what they need done right now, "If you've got anything, give it to me now" - before the Public Service wakes up and people question things.

Lord Hannan ( Knob end ) told the tired old story of that Summer's Day in 1647 when the most precious thing in the Tower of London was the Magna Carta - a deed signed by a cornered King with his pressing nobles that made the law - above the King.

Hooray for equality under the law - well Lord Hannan never mentioned how life was still bloody unequal because this was fairy land and the guests wanted a good fiction.

What he did do was say this gave us Universal rights and he imagined what would have happened if the world wars and cold war had turned out differently...and very quickly said we have treaties ...and treaties provide for equality.

He marvelled how our Treaty had a mechanism for grievances.

Lord Hannan reflected how life was grand when Māori decided to fight in wars in Africa because they cared about others - which just showed the value of the individual ( not the collective ) - and how everything had been just fine until an eyeblink ago - so what happened said Hannan?

Lord Daniel lamented how Anglo Countries were all adopting the racial language of the US ( woke ) - and how there was a danger identity politics could take us all back to pre-Enlightenment times.

White conservatives were called "Klansmen" and black conservatives were called "Uncle Toms".

Everyone shuddered as a shadow crawled up the wall - but it was just Rhys stealing a glass of bubbles. Maybe Rhys did not know Hannan was president of the Young Britons’ Foundation, a self-described “Conservative madrasa” whose executive director has called global warming “a scam? But who cares...Rhys was on the inside learning to be a knob just like all of them.

It was a sad thing to the privileged Lord ( appointed by Bozo ) that British school kids would know more about Martin Luther King and Rosa Parkes than John Locke or John Milton ( in the other speech it was John Mills ).

Hannan worried that countries like Canada had invented a genocide, how this terrible identity business had resulted in the referendum in Australia and now - you are having the same problem with the Treaty of Waitangi here.

Those dangerous judges in the supreme court were simply making things up...poor babies.

Hannan said if he asked you what your views were about Climate Change, Transgender rights and Black Lives Matter - he could predict with 80% certainty what side you were on when it came to the conflict in Gaza.

He said you identify the victim group and decide who is your tribe and presto we are all divided unlike the good old days when we focused on engaging with the issues ( lol ). He told a story from the Old Testament where seven kids had to be slaughtered to appease the Blood Guilt - and concluded we have to transcend our tribal feelings - because it is not about who our ancestors were.

Wow this was wafer thin rubbish and a mockery of the reality here - and the real history and meaning of Te Tiriti - but to the cult it was like truth brother preach! There was more about Hannan praising his own ability to talk for 25 minutes about the Maori Battalion and how - he only mentioned this because it elevated the individual above the collective ( arse about face ).

Finally Lord Hannan worried how Schools and Universities are not treating us like we are all the same.

He talked how two babies born at the same time are born with pre-existing grievances and how it was up to everyone in the room ( Atlas ) to maintain our sublime heritage and to keep your inheritance in tact.

There was thunderous applause as Atlas Network cronies got on their feet and frothed at the mouth with praise.

Some time later on the 7th February 2024 Mihingarangi Forbes asked David Seymour about what Lord Hannan had said cos she'd heard that speech online - and why did he come here?

Seymour shrugged and said he had no idea but he enjoyed having dinner with him - and this was after saying Act had no links to the Atlas Network ...after all we know about them.

Act Directors, Act founders, Act Donors and even Seymour himself an Atlas Network alumni - all Mont Perlerin Society and Atlas Network think tank members.

Seymour said it was the new pizzagate of the left to suggest any such thing, and he was very disappointed in being asked about it.

After the big party at the Gibb's farm - the young intern Rhys was bursting with pride - and he wrote about it all back in Perth on the Atlas Network website there.

Yeah, knob ends ...I like that.

What was said to Seymour at Gibbs Mansion

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