What can I say?

One might remember from last year the fulminating over the totally ridiculous, unilateral, and idiotic little piece of legislation dreamed up by Auntie Helen; the one that masqueraded under the title of the "Electoral Finance Act". As a piece of political suicide it was perfect.

It does, however, have its humourous side. I missed this one, my wife drew it to my attention, so it must have been a particularly bad day for me...

Thanks to the Herald for the photo, taken without permission...

The story is that Mr Green is an operatic singer, a teacher of music, politically active, and a member of the Green Party. His hedge, in its sculptured form, has been there for some years. But that did not stop some little minded idiot from referring it to the Electoral Commission as an illegal electoral advertisement.

Faced with ruling on the somewhat bizarre case of a green hedge pruned by a Green Party member called Mr Green, the Electoral Commission has, for want of a better word, hedged its findings.

The commission has made no determination on a pre-election complaint from a member of the public that the hedge on the Auckland property of opera singer Richard Green constituted an election advertisement under the since defunct Electoral Finance Act.
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His hedge is no ordinary hedge. He has pruned it to display the word "Green" in two-metre high letters - something the singing teacher says he has done for the past eight years to make it easier for students to find his house on what is a busy street.