The Ingram Report
Having now read the 160 pages of the Ingram Report, which cost almost $500,000, my conclusions are as follows:
- Mr Noel Ingram QC has done a fine job in chronicling the doings of Taito Field
- The multiple instances of appalling judgment, or worse, by Taito Field, should get have him denounced by his party leadership
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July 18th, 2006 at 10:43 pm
Dr Ingram QC I believe
July 18th, 2006 at 10:51 pm
Why are being a moron and working for El Presidente Clark mutually exclusive?
July 18th, 2006 at 11:26 pm
This is a report Helen Clark wished she had never set up, for the conclusions could only have been bad. So the next best thing was to prevent it from reaching any meaningful conclusions that could see Field being charged with a criminal offence or embarass the Labour Party. She has achieved that particularly when a number of witnesses refused to co-operate. So we all now move on, and she has kept him on side with some weak promise about coming back into the executive. Her main aim is two fold, to keep Field on side and to prevent any collateral damage to the Government and the Labour Party. Not an easy thing to do, and it will take all her considerable political skill to achieve that.
July 19th, 2006 at 7:06 am
I was going to say “What part of EXONERATED did you guys not understand?”…but then I realised the word had too many syllables for rightie morons to comprehend.
I have had time to skim read the report. Poor political judgement yes. Exile to the backbenches, yes. Lot’s of juicy exerpt’s, yes. But overall, you have to accept that the QC who has been closer to all the evidence than any of us has drawn a considered conclusion that there was no evidence to back claims of serious or malicious corruption. Unorthodox practise does not equal hanging offence.
As for the circus in Parliament….Royal fricken Commission my arse. Can none of you think of a dozen other topics more vital to the national interest than this pathetic storm in a tea cup? This whole affair is another round of National Party dipstickery with all the usual mediocre, irrelevant overblown puffery. Nine months ago I defended Field vigorously over the Cole house business, and Dr Ingram’s report unequivocally clears him on that matter. But this is not the conclusion you guys want to hear, so roll out the invective spewing spittle machine boys…your day in the sun has come.
July 19th, 2006 at 7:15 am
Logix – by your interpretation of “exonerated” by this report you would also say that the “concrete block killer” was exonerated of murder?
July 19th, 2006 at 7:29 am
Wow I thought it was impossible for someone to read the Ingram Report and repeat the lie that it exonerates Field. It does not do so in any way. In fact it catalogues a vast array of misdeeds, but by its TOR is unable to reahc a conclusion on them.
The only moron Logix is yourself – having proven to either be a partisan hack with no ethics yours, or a moron. Luckily even the media have not fallen for the exonerate nonsense.
July 19th, 2006 at 8:04 am
Unbelievable.This government has no scruples at all. Talk about another shameless manipulation of justice to stay in power. What really gets me is that supporters on the left just blindly follow this sort of behaviuor and come onto mediums like this and actually try to defend it.You can be sure that if this happened to, say, one of Bush’s aides, the knives would be out.But hypocrisy does seem to be one of the attributes of this government.As for Field. With the Church behind him and now his political power reconfirmed they will be calling him “Taito Phillip Field, King of Mangare!” How lucky his constituents are. BTW, did he give any of the profit from the onsale of the mtgee sale house back to the original owner? I thought not. What a guy.
July 19th, 2006 at 8:23 am
Logix, what makes your stand so sad is that it is the very people who you claim to champion that got shafted, and used and exploited. I trust that you blush a little while looking in the mirror after that distasteful attempt at spin. Slavery and enforced labour cannot be acceptable in this country.
July 19th, 2006 at 8:29 am
Logix, what makes your stand so sad is that it is the very people who you claim to champion that got shafted, and used and exploited. I trust that you blush a little while looking in the mirror after that distasteful attempt at spin. Slavery and enforced labour cannot be acceptable in this country.