Very merry? PC at work again in Sydney.

[Black Orchid]

BONKERS bureaucrats are trying to kill Christmas by airbrushing the C-word from signs and events in a mad, misguided attempt to avoid offending people.

Flags with the nonsensical slogan “very merry” — avoiding using the word “Christmas” — were torn down in The Rocks yesterday after no-nonsense Finance Minister Dominic Perrottet intervened.

“Very Merry means absolutely nothing to anyone,” Mr Perrottet said.

“When you leave out the one word that matters all you’re left with is a vacuous, bland platitude. It’s nonsense — but it’s an easy fix, and it turns out we didn’t even need a focus group to get the message right. I know it’s a bit out there but we’re going with ‘Merry Christmas’ this year.”

The flags were put up by an agency within the finance department but were ripped down yesterday on Mr Perrottet’s direct orders following a complaint from a taxpayer who said: “Stop spending my money denying an Australian (and world) celebration.”

The flags are being replaced on Friday with designs proudly emblazoned with “Merry Christmas”. Nearby, a statue of Santa has been erected made from plastic crates and bearing the slogan “Very Merry Crate-mas”.

Hawkesbury Council’s Christmas bash is called a “community appreciation party” but Mayor Mary Lyons-Buckett pointed out she does run a Christmas Mayoral Appeal.

Over at Sydney Airport, signs in the domestic terminal read: “Happy holidays to all, and to all a good flight” — a subversion of the final line from the famous poem A Visit from St Nicholas, popularly known as “The Night Before Christmas”.

The true line of the poem reads: “Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night”.

Christian Democrat Fred Nile is also livid about the attempts to kill Christmas: “It’s a trend and I’m very angry about it. I don’t want any of this ‘happy holiday’ business.’’


It comes after academics at University of New England tried to claim Santa is a “lie” and advised parents not to tell children about Father Christmas for fear of damaging them. In an example of “elf” and safety gone mad, Dr Kathy McKay and co-author Professor Christopher Boyle suggested parents put kids at risk of trauma by talking about Santa and condemned the idea of a “terrifying” North Pole intelligence agency judging behaviour.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/n ... f67de918dd

I am SO sick of the politically correct. Very Merry? Very merry what?

There should be a law against political correctness and idiots who come up with these ridiculous appeasement ideas should be jailed.

Go Dominic!

[Black Orchid]

All this does is create resentment and many Sydneysiders are resentful of the absolute mess these idiots have made of Sydney.

Who the Hell is this guy supposed to represent?

[Neferti]

Looks like a Muzzie with baubles on his beard.

What a bunch of rubbish. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! Not Happy Holidays. Unbelievable.

[Redneck]

Yes me too.

If the muslims dont like our customs they should bugger off back to the middle east!

This is a Christian country and they should like it or leave it!

[Black Orchid]

I thought he looked Muslim too but I wanted someone else to say it first lol

So we cant say "Christmas" yet put a Muslim on the signage?

What sort of insanity is that?

[IQS.RLOW]

All this does is create resentment and many Sydneysiders are resentful of the absolute mess these idiots have made of Sydney.

Who the Hell is this guy supposed to represent?

A Sydney hipster dufus leftist.

[IQS.RLOW]

Yes me too.

If the muslims dont like our customs they should bugger off back to the middle east!

This is a Christian country and they should like it or leave it!

This isnt Muslims.
This is leftists.

[Black Orchid]

Yes it is the leftists and all they are doing is creating division and resentment.

[Redneck]

Not this leftist!

[Black Orchid]

No. I have leftie friends and they aren't like that either. It's the PC loony left and they are even starting to alienate their own people with all this nonsense.