Hobbs to be new Assistant Speaker
March 2nd, 2008 at 6:36 pm by David FarrarNo Rught Turn as usual beats the media to reporting that the new Assistant Speaker will be Marian Hobbs.
I guest she must be bored, to volunteer to do the job for just six months.
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March 2nd, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Parilment is going to be an even bigger mess than usual with a teletubby trying to control everything.
Did anyone read the interview in the Sunday Star Times with Gene Simmons? I think National should invite him to stand as welfare minister. He said “lazy people who don’t want to work need a good bitch slap from g-d”.
Vote:March 2nd, 2008 at 6:51 pm
When has she ever done anything? – just think of the mess in the house from now on!!
Vote:March 2nd, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Wasn’t she a schoolteacher? Experience at controlling unruly classrooms could be handy…………
Vote:March 2nd, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Well, she would make a truly awesome impact player coming off the bench! She sure doesn’t have to do much to be an improvement on the inept Ann Hartley that she would replace.
Vote:March 2nd, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Boo Boo cannot be any worse than the incredible invisible mp from birkenhead, good news for boo boo of course is that she will not have to ask anymore of those patsy questions that Labour use to waste as much time as possible during question time.
Vote:March 2nd, 2008 at 7:13 pm
FFS – replacing one partisan inept robot with another. What a joke.
Vote:March 2nd, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Replace the moron witch with another !!
Vote:March 2nd, 2008 at 7:49 pm
So inspiring to see the inept & Impotent males on this blog speaking so elequintly.
Vote:Great to see the eloquence of the Blue Bottles who infest Kiwiblog speaking out.
Just interested guys, any of you actually have a woman in their life, who would put up with your anti feminine bullshit.
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:00 pm
If you classify a woman as Helen then John the answer is no!
Vote:March 2nd, 2008 at 8:05 pm
Please John Dulley, put a blue bottle from the beach up your bottom – while singing teletubby socialist songs.
Vote:March 2nd, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Is this the same Marion Hobbs who signed off the Fiji general election as kosher? The one they had without a census?
Vote:March 2nd, 2008 at 8:13 pm
john dalley you are boring. And clearly inept yourself – of the 7 posts above yours only 1 is arguably anti-feminine (but then again some feminists are happy to i.d. with witches so arguably none are anti-fem).
You just expose the controlled thinking of your types. The thought controlled thought is so ingrained that it just pours out unthinkingly at every opportunity.
Got anything original to say?
Vote:March 2nd, 2008 at 8:17 pm
John Dalley,
Just interested guys, any of you actually have a woman in their life, who would put up with your anti feminine bullshit.
Well John, my lovely female partner of some 30+ years encourages me to speak out against the feminazis.
Vote:She is also sick of paying taxes for their person agendas.
We now have at least 8% of the people in a Liarbour Government who confirm they are gay.
Let us hope that they don’t make it compulsory.
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:40 pm
You’re joking, right? Seriously? What a joke! Is this selected in order to make Margaret Wison appear competent by comparison?
Vote:March 2nd, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Hobbs has always struck me as someone who has integrity. Jury is out on competence but I suspect that she will do better than Wilson. Frankly it’s difficult to think of anyone who could have been more partisan and lacking in judicial integrity, the latter of which is almost exclusively what the job requires. It’s a shame really that Wilson, who was perhaps one of the most technically capable speakers in modern history, has proved substantially deficient in ethics and neutrality. I hope that history slams her hard, she really deserves it for subjecting our democracy to the farce that’s her legacy.
Good riddance.
P.S. I’ve often wondered whether we shouldn’t institute a system of denying Parliamentary pensions to those who make forseeably poor decisions. The Minister of Ag who allowed breeds of attack dogs like Tozers into the country when we didn’t used to have them is one example. Wilson is another.
Vote:March 2nd, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Or allowing Tizard a pension when she has been invisible for the last 20 years.
Its amazing what you can get away with when you’re “close” to the PM.
Vote:March 2nd, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Yes SR, “close”
Vote:March 2nd, 2008 at 9:17 pm
PhilBest… just what I thought. Imagine her standing there, arms folded, yelling “Who said that? Come on now, which one of you? If someone doesn’t own up you’ll all be kept in after recess…”
Vote:March 2nd, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Marion Hobbs as Speaker? I mean this can’t really be true, can it? It’s a joke, innit? Mind you, when you think of it, who else do you pick from Labour’s motley lot.
I’m trying and trying, but the names just don’t come forward.
Vote:March 2nd, 2008 at 9:35 pm
>Hobbs has always struck me as someone who has integrity.
Integrity? Wasn’t Hobbs one of the MPs claiming expenses to operate a home in Wellington (available to MPs based in other parts of the country) when her main residence was already in Wellington? She and Bunkle, IIRC, were kicked out of Cabinet for a while, but Hobbs was let back in on the same it’s-not-a-crime-if-you’re-a-Labour-MP rule that protects members of the ruling party.
Vote:March 2nd, 2008 at 9:46 pm
It’s ironic that someone attempting to insult someone else about their eloquence would make such an amateur misspelling:
Vote:March 2nd, 2008 at 10:30 pm
I`m surprised that didnt pick Judith Tizard. Give her something to do. We will have a former communist as an asst speaker. Is that a first?
Vote:March 2nd, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Dick4justice – Are you still out, i thought you may have been put away for the night.
Vote:March 2nd, 2008 at 10:59 pm
Steve – We now have 8% of Labour who confirm they areb gay.
Vote:So that would mean 12% of National are gay.
March 2nd, 2008 at 11:10 pm
John – are 12% of the National MPs declared as gay? I wasn’t aware of that. Are you making that up?
Vote:March 3rd, 2008 at 12:22 am
First they wreck the country, now they want to wreck the integrity of Parliament. Whats left that is.
Vote:March 3rd, 2008 at 8:24 am
Hobbs will be a better Assistant Speaker than Ann Hartley. Now sure so would Dad4Justice arguably, but more seriously Hobbs does have a pretty relaxed temperament and good sense of humour – two qualities which I think are helpful in the job.
Vote:March 3rd, 2008 at 3:19 pm
I am picking she will be quite good and I hope Margaret Wilson gets the hint she is not wanted and hobble into the sunset with Heather Mills and Captn Hook.
[DPF: Tim 20 demerits for that reference to Wilson's disability which is bad taste]
Vote:March 3rd, 2008 at 3:43 pm
PhilBest – You are right – she was a very highly regarded secondary school teacher and as far as I remember she plans to teach overseas after retiring from Parliament. Some years back, Wellington Girls College delayed appointing a new principal in the ‘hope’ she would not get into Parliament and could take up the position.
Vote:March 3rd, 2008 at 9:47 pm
I agree Hobbs would make a much better assistant speaker than Ann Hartley.
But then, so would a Hamster!
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