I was so poisoned by my experience on David Farrer’s blogsite that I had a few days off to get back my equilibrium. I hook back in and whose name do I see – yours telling LIES about me.

Check out my post on Colin Espiner’s blog 30/10 @ 5.01pm (Maharey’s Resignation has a Silver Lining for Clark) saying that while I thought it was a huge compliment that you seemed to think I was a Labour MP, that I was unfortunately not, (and would never be one, because I would never be courageous enough to absorb the filth that would be directed at me by the opposition, as I am experiencing slightly now). This has only reinforced my respect for Helen Clark, and my contempt for the gutter politics that National Act is resorting to. I

Apart from the fact that your vicious gossiping and lying about me needs an apology on this site and Colin Espiner’s site and The Standard site, which has more heart and soul to it, than kiwiblog will ever have, I request that David Farrer castigate you for your underhanded manner and your deliberate lying about me if he wishes anyone to take his political objectivity seriously, henceforth.

The only obsession I have about women’s rights is that they are treated equally under the law and in pay and in human rights. I have a huge amount of respect for what Helen Clark (and Michael Cullen I might add) have done for this country since Roger Douglas and Ruth Richardson almost ripped out the heart and soul of wonderful average (like me) Kiwis.

Richard, I will NEVER have anything good to say about Jenny Shipley who singlehandedly destroyed a decent, humane medical system for pregnant women.
Jenny Shipley is a perfect example of women with children who have less humanity than Helen Clark who chose not to have children, because she wanted to lead New Zealand to a more inclusive society.

I have an obsession, yes, for women who want to lift our country up and, yes, I do believe they are the only people as lynchpins in families, and companies and churches and government who can do that and more importantly WANT to do that, in conjunction with like-minded men, for New Zealanders, ALL New Zealanders.

I am not a Labour Party member. I have no idea what this Labour Party Email tree is, and I suggest very strongly, Richard, that you cease stalking me across blog sites and spreading lies. Apart from the compliment of being linked to Labour, the party which should lead us into 2009 and beyond, I realise that you are using lies to try and frighten me off posting. Seriously, it would be wise for you to stop.

Thank you for taking up the cudgel on my behalf, on National Party spin doctors.

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448 people, each of their worth an average of $104,910?!

When I worked for NZF I averaged nine major speeches a week and six media releases a day (anyone thinking that’s idle boasting can refer to Tom Scott’s column in the Listener of 22 June 1996). So let’s be generous and say that, allowing for long Parliamentary recesses etc I kept that up for 40 weeks a year, and issued no releases on the weekends. That’s 360 speeches and 1,200 media releases a year. And I wasn’t on $100,000+ since it was a taxpayer-funded job and I (naively, in retrospect) believed that if one chose to work in the public sector one should not expect private sector salaries.

What a journalist needs to do is count up the number of releases issued by one of these agencies (usually archived on their web sites) and divide them by the number of “communications consultants / advisors / managers / co-ordinators” in that agency.

Since some of the lower echelons (Communications Co-ordinators etc) would probably be on somewhere between $40k and $50k, there’ll be some who are earning close to a Cabinet Minister’s salary (though without the perks of course). At that kind of money, it not unreasonable for taxpayers to expect some accountability.

And DPF, though you neatly slid past Jum’s question about the National Party’s spin doctors, given the fact that a percentage of these highly paid communications people will undoubtedly have been appointed because of who they know rather than what they know, what will National do? Clear house? Keep them all? Try and find a way to measure outputs and decide who’s actually worth this kind of money?

I do remember Reid – and sorry to go all anal on you, but it was actually LILLIES and Other Things. Who would have thought it eh, the old tusker loved his lillies!

Independent, yeah right. Hosted by labour, bandwidth paid for by Labour.

haven’t voted Labour, don’t vote Labour, don’t work for labour…..but conveniently someone gave you some server space…..Hollow excuses from hollow men.

You must have been lying when you said it cost $10 a month for hosting. Your we either lying then or you are lying now, or here’s a thought you lie all the time.

Hollow man.

We set The Standard up as an independent left-wing blog in August last year. As you probably remember by about November our traffic had got so large our server was crashing every day, sometimes for hours at a time. We put out a call and at the end of last year someone from Labour emailed us and offered us some temporary server space until we worked something out.

It’s not the ideal solution I admit, but as a temporary measure it sure beats having your site down for hours at a time during peak hours. We’ll probably have some new hosting sorted some time within the next month. Don’t fret though Paul, it hasn’t stopped us telling our readers to vote Green.

Peak Oil – Just spotted you. Refer to comments

reid Says:
January 20th, 2008 at 5:03 pm –
began ranting at my perfectly acceptable post with comments about Goebbels and Communists and socialists all lumped in with lipstick on pigs. When people attack me I have a right to defend myself. When I realised I had probably hurt DPF I retracted my remark. I’m on this site to get honest opinions and yet people are so toxic. I will get toxic back and quite frankly I don’t enjoy the whole experience very much.

If this is a site for just National supporters to say what they like, and in the nastiest way, then say so and I will vacate.

Take one for the cause eh Jum? What a brave, brave, brave s/he you are. Sniff.

I was merely referring to the fact that Goebbels as a facist was part of your ilk, just like the commies are. Some socialists don’t even know the connection, some just disingenuously deny it as if it doesn’t exist, but it’s there. It has to do with whether you believe in big govt or small govt. Socialists believe the bigger the problem the bigger the govt solution needs to be. Conservatives believe the govt should be smaller and in many cases applying free choice will address the problem. Facism and communism are both big govt solutions.

Sorry to point out the truth, I certainly didn’t mean for you to be offended by it.

Since DPF is part Jewish I will remove what would obviously be a nasty remark,

and I will attach it to you and refer you to my last post, which is the better choice.

Don’t imagine your attacks on me will ever make me feel bad when I witness every day the constant battering by you and your mates against all the parts of New Zealand I love best.