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The NZ Herald has a lengthy profile of Clayton Cosgrove.

Cosgrove for many years was pretty unpopular with his colleagues, and this clouded appraisal of his future. A self described moral conservative in the Labour Party can be about as welcome as a zoophile would be in the Animals First Party.

But Cosgrove has done well as a Minister and has certainly proven his appointment was made on merit. I’ve been impressed with most of the work he has done on Building Issues.

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  1. Neil Says:

    Spent an enjoyable 10 minutes listening to him in the budjet debate last Thursday.
    I have no idea what he was going on about as I was listening for the exact moment when either his head exploded or his balls dropped.
    Building issues is also moving from a comfortable post to a highly poison chalice.

  2. dad4justice Says:

    “The Nelson-born, Christchurch-raised Cosgrove was then a weekday border at St Bede’s College, and was soon granted permission to climb the school fence after hours to attend meetings of Labour’s Redwood branch.”

    Many of his St Bede’s class mates joined our rugger club and they said he was a wimpish crawling snitch, who used to nark on the lads playing up, also he was timid and withdrawn, which seems rather odd, as apparently now he is a motor mouth? Funny how when you’re around real blokes the weak shut up, but when they’re in the company that resembles a Doctor Hook Freakers Ball line up he can excel with his limitless hyperbole. Good old Mike Moore the original political carpetbagger showed him the ropes eh!

    I can’t wait to see him at a school reunion, as I will make him cry.

  3. hisself Says:

    Heck, d4j…..no ranting? No spittle? The drugs are working!

  4. kiwi in america Says:

    D4j
    You know you can’t help yourself. I’m no friend of this government and I do battle with the same people you do on this blog hopefully minus your personal invective. But raising what Clayton Cosgrove did at St Bedes as a teenager or Mike Moore moving from Auckland for the Papanui selection back in 1978 is pathetic muckraking. I’m sure you did crap in High School that you would not be proud of. Frankly Cosgrove and Moore have watched the party they love move beyond their old fashioned championing of kiwi battlers to a PC hodgepotch of unionists, feminists and gays all with an agenda so socially liberal that both guys are no longer really at home. Old fashioned loyalty keeps them there and I can understand that.

    You clearly know neither man. Can I suggest that if you can find good even in those who hold different views to you, you would be a much happier chappy. I understand you have a chip on your shoulder about the actions of government agencies in your life but really you should engage brain before putting mouth into gear more often. Its no wonder you get banned from this blog periodically.

  5. dad4justice Says:

    Whatever kiwiyank – and yes I know both men, ask them .

  6. Redbaiter Says:

    Cosgrove was the initiator of the “boy racers” legislation. Notable not only for its failure, but for the contempt its author showed for one of the legal traditions that marked NZ as a civilized country- innocent until proven guilty.

    During Margaret Wilson’s absense from parliament, he has sometimes acted as Speaker, and IMHO has then behaved in the most partisan and ignorant manner, worse even than Wilson.

    I think he is just one more despicable leftist barbarian.

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