In which the pond stays loyal to the world's greatest climate scientist ... and no, that's not Andrew Bolt ...

(Above: and more Pope here).

Say what you will, the pond is loyal, loyal to a fault.

More impassioned bloggers would be rightly devoting their time to sundry national disgraces, not the least the mutton known as Dutton.

Others would probably be distracted by old favourites, such as Dame Slap or the Swiss bank account man:

But the pond is not for turning.

Once the pond knew that Moorice had graced the reptiles of Oz with his opinions, there was simply no choice.

Now sad to say, Moorice has temporarily abandoned his primary expertise as one of the world's great climate scientists, but still attention must be paid to anything he pronounces on ...

Let loose the agile hounds Jeeves ...

Now note well, the skills embraced in this tract. 

You will not, for example, find a single mention of the United States. It's best to talk of the Soviet Union and China and so on, because any mention of the United States might be awkward and lead to links to the Atlantic here, or Mother Jones here, and their talk of graphs and such like.

Well so much for the land of the rich and the free and assorted state sales tax regimes which transfer the burden of tax to the poor.

But back to Moorice, still beavering away while his epic climate science studies lie mouldering in the bottom drawer, and he builds to a zinger of a conclusion, which amply demonstrates the rewards available to the faithful and the loyal:

They don't write 'em like that any more, but the pond found that last line excruciatingly delicious ...

... don't expect the rent seekers who are the real beneficiaries of redistributive policies to vote for a GST increase ...

Because those bloody poor people don't know what's good for them, and what's wrong with taxing the fresh food they eat, because they'd all be better off dumpster diving and ending the waste inherent in supermarkets ...

Or some such thing.

And so to a couple more cartoons about the deeds of mutton Dutton, because if the pond tackled the subject directly, this site might be banned for NSFW profanity ... why even the Kiwis are having a go ...