Tonight’s TV illustrated the Police’s Double Standards. Re the assault – Police made it clear that the complaint lodged by one of Mallard’s constituents would not receive any attention as the complaint had to be lodged by Tau Henare.

So where does Helen Clark stand in view of her statement: ““It is the responsibility of every citizen to report wrong doing to the appropriate authorities and it will be investigated”?

So Police don’t consider punch ups as wrong doing, if complained of by uninvolved people.. Her police force condones violence, unless the victim lodges the complaint itself. Ditto, unless a child lodges a complaint of assault, the police will do nothing to uphold the anti smacking bill? I Think Broad owes us an explanation?

The difference is that Mallard never tired to moralise to the people, and claim the ‘hollier than thou’ role. Marriages may be one thing, but recently deceased parents I thought would have been way out of bounds.

Fucken pitiful ain’t it?? Saps.

For crying out loud. Sorry, that’s no ad hominem, I was actually trying to be helpful to D4J. It was a short, snappy comment. And if you’re going to call that as a threadjack, then at least be consistent and pick up everyone else.

rakaunui(moderation) : Mrs Disgusted / Peak Oil Conspiracy, Ok, fair enough.

Interesting locked down footage on TVOne news last night showing the comings and goings in the house around the incident.

However for national it would be best of he stayed in the house – out of cabinet but in the house. That way hes always there to use. Like when ever Cullen gets a case of uncontrollable fury, all National need to do is ask “and are you going toget Trevour onto this to sort it out?”

The growing perception must be that given she would want to ‘move on’ after the election, whoever votes for her, will, by proxy, be voting an untried and under-achieving minion into the prime post.

Goff for PM? Yeah right!

“More generally, the perception is that Labour have happily thrown out conventions and ethics in the quest for power. They may now be discovering that moral rules exist for a good purpose – because if you don’t follow them, things don’t work out so well in the long run.”

You are absolutely right. It often takes a little while before the affects of removing morals are noticed. I suspect that Labour may now be realising however that their desertion of foundation principles of Labour are going to be their undoing.

Bovver-boy Mallard deserves every bit of his predicament. Enjoy!

rakaunui(moderation): Threadjack! and ad hominem.

At first I was puzzled about why you might be Sam’s mouthpiece – but I see you’ve visited The Standard for a Labour-friendly perspective. Which begs the question why Sam felt able to express his views there but not here. Could you check with Sam (seeing as he’s not talking) and get back to us?

Sam’s position is confused. He seems to be saying that Don Brash put himself out there as “Honest Don”. Sorry, Sam, but I think the way Labour targeted him over his affair was despicable. Trevor Mallard’s “Talking about affairs” comment was clearly primed and ready to go – he interrupted Don Brash mid-question.

And then Sam seems to say that Nick Smith should be given some slack. Yes, he should. George Hawkins falls into the same category. I think we could get past David Benson-Pope’s twitching problem – if only he could stay out of the limelight.

Part of living in a representative democracy (that is, a diverse Parliament) is we get to see the spicey and saucy flavours of life. And I thought we had a public understanding – of sorts – over when MPs’ personal affairs (relationships, family matters etc) should pass into the public domain. Clearly, we have some way to go.

“Their private lives don’t matter unless they run on them – eg Don Brash’s ‘honest don’ angle, that’s why the affair mattered and utlimately broke him – all the time he was tlaking about his wife from Singapore he was cheating on her with a business woman who was also a National party funding coordinator, and his secretary. when that came public he had no crediblity left.

Now, a number of MPs have had illicit trists over the years and you’re bound to have heard the rumours of who likes the rent boys, whose been cheating on their wives etc – that’s not relevant and shouldn’t be part of the political discourse unless their politics exposes them to the charge of hypocrisy as it did with the Don.

And fair enough the same standard should apply to lying(sic) off Nick Smith’s mental problems – unless they impact on his ability to function at times – which they seem to some times. have you heard his interjections in the House? bizaare stuff at times.”

I can just hear the compassion.

Was the secretary the one who leaked those emails?