We all know why the EPMU are going hard for the Dunedin South nomination. Dunedin South is cash and asset rich. Panty Slut boy is privy to information that could damage Labour so he needs to be pushed out now. Pryde has stated he wants a messy fight if it means to win the nomination.

Are you the same Tane who got spanked on my blog a few months ago for stating that the Unions “never-never ever” used their Government funding to promote Labour? We wondered why you snivelled off without even a whimper.

Don’t you just hate it when Tane gets discredited? Especially when you find something like this on the very same thread!!!

“Tane Says:

October 30th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
IV2, David’s free to comment on whatever he likes. I’m just telling him his insider knowledge of the Labour Party is laughable and he’d be advised to stick to what he knows if he wants to retain any credibility.”

As my old mate, the 12th Man would say (in his very best Bill Lawry voice) – “Gottim, yes, piss off, you’re out!”!!

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10473084

Get a new line to the top, Tane.

[DPF: And that's 10 demerit points]

Since when was Bridget Saunders a senior press gallery journalist?

Wise and warm words, milo.

I was just thinking last night that “Shut up Sharon” was the single most effective policy annoucement by the Natural Party of Government since Don Brash left.

But there was also the great victory of the Nats in the Madeleine Satchell affair….we really are concentrated on helping battling New Zealanders

Humpty Dumpty fell from the red brick wall – which later blew down in a howling nor wester ? What a great day for New Zealand that will be .

I think that kind of political patronage is fine, as it recognises the difficult employment situation of ex-MPs. Also, he will have the skills and contacts to do such a job well – better than someone who had not had his political experience.

DBP’s crime is hypocrisy. He has finally paid the price. If he will go gracefully, I see no need to kick a man when he is down (or punch him when he doesn’t expect it). Time for some grace in victory. He is a human being, after all.

To claim that the Labour party “uses” the EPMU in any particular occasion is a leap of logic that can’t be substantiated.

What Roger should realise is the very fact that it can’t be substantiated could be the very reason that this has been handled in this manner. However he is right when he asserts that it is a leap of logic.

Logically, Labour can’t pubically cut Benson Pope off after having defended him for so long through many scandals. Pryde “is a longstanding member of the Labour Party and the Dunedin South LEC.” and yet it is as president of the EPMU that he announces his candidacy. If he was to stand as a labour candidate, Labour would have announced it but being in a seat with a long-standing incumbant who has already expressed a desire to run, logically you would expect this to be handled differently.

It remains to be seen if Benson Pope gets the subtle message.

“My point was that DPF’s half-baked conspiracy theory was precisely that – the idea that the EPMU works as Labour’s proxy and does the party’s dirty work is absurd and shows a stunning lack of understanding about how Labour and the unions work.”

But then cute little DPF says this.

[DPF: When it suits them to do so, they do. When it doesn’t suit them they don’t. What’s so mysterious about that?]

“the Labour hierarchy often uses the EPMU to say stuff, that they politically don’t want to.”

You say that the Labour party “uses” the EPMU. That’s the dodgy part. All you can prove is that the EPMU is affiliated to the Labour party, and that at times does things which appear benefit the Labour. To claim that the Labour party “uses” the EPMU in any particular occasion is a leap of logic that can’t be substantiated.

The Liarbour Ship of fools is going to the bottom of the ocean because the average kiwi citizen has had enough of all the tomfoolery tactics from a clearly dysfunctional labour government .

Good one Billy – either that or he would be saying

“My mate Irish Bill has another take over here: http://www.thestandard.org.nz/not_really_fine_weather_but_dodgy_dealings_by_the-EB

Methinks he might have a better idea of what’s going on than DPF.”