Young calls Clark out
October 31st, 2008 at 4:00 pm by David FarrarOh dear Helen Clark has done what John Key once did, and accused Audrey of getting it wrong. And Audrey isn’t wrong:
The Prime Minister got it badly wrong on Newstalk ZB this morning.
She said the Herald got its story about Labour’s promise for a job search allowance wrong.
It did not. The allowance will be available only to a person made redundant whose spouse is working. We said that.
It will not be income-tested against the working spouse’s income. We said that. …
The Prime Minister’s office has been unable to state this morning where the Herald got it wrong. …
The Herald did not get it wrong.
The Herald did not take the same angle that some other news outlets did that all people who lose their jobs will get the allowance.
That may have the impression the PM was trying to convey but that is not correct.
So the Herald interfered with the spin. Bad Herald.
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October 31st, 2008 at 4:03 pm
“Oh dear Helen Clark has done what John Key once did, and accused Audrey of getting it wrong.”
Wasn’t it Winnie who did that?
Vote:October 31st, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Can we chalk up another lie to Clark then?
Vote:October 31st, 2008 at 4:20 pm
This is what Clark is very good at. No one can debate things in a manner that she doesn’t approve of.
Afterall this is social policy and Aunty Helen knows best.
Too late Clark this is election time so piss off its our turn to cast judgement
Vote:October 31st, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Oh my, the media turning on dear leader, the tide has finally turned?
Vote:October 31st, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Correct d4j
Now for TV One
Vote:October 31st, 2008 at 4:35 pm
one thing Ive observed in the past 35 years is those pricks in the MSM sniff the wind of change and quickly turn on those who are about to go under.
From their usual suck up style to caste them adrift in a flash of an eye. free weather friends are the MSM
watch for the last week of the campaign as the socialists the greens and NZ1 fall out of favour and the sucking up to the Nats and ACT
they will be falling over themselves hanging on every word JK and Rodders utter now they realise their favoured Dearly Beloved heavenly Leader is dog meat
Vote:October 31st, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Audrey should resign. Now.
Heard Helen sounding slightly ‘bored’ as she suggested that National have got their sums wrong with their recent unemployment relief package. Same tactic, different situation.
‘It’s all about Trust’
– to quote inventory!
Vote:As for teh MSM the cardinal rule for politicians must be Never try to take it on, or it will bite you in the ass. Ask Winnie.
October 31st, 2008 at 4:41 pm
The worst piece of journalism from this week was that very weak effort by John Armstrong in yesterday’s Herald about the failed attempt to smear Key. It was totally inadequate.
For the MSM they cannot ignore the fact that Labour have had a week where the shit has hit the fan in several ways:
1. Peters outed for the nth time as a liar, Clark was dragged into it for the nth time.
2. The smear effort by Labour was useless.
3. National finally put a bit of oomph into their campaign.
I’m not getting carried away just yet but the signs are encouraging.
Vote:October 31st, 2008 at 4:52 pm
I saw that Grant Robertson, the Wellington Central Labour candidate put out a glossy brochure to every household (apparently using a courier service that must have bust his budget) with an “endorsement” from Audrey Young and someone else. His personal blog now has an apology to Audrey et al. She has never endorsed Grant Robertson.Everyone with a brain in Wellington Central knows that Stephen Franks is clearly the best candidate for Wellington Central and on polling conducted this week he is neck and neck with Labour, having pulled back a massive 17.6% lead of over 6000 votes already. Grant Robertson is just a career party hack with a militant gay agenda who will use any dirty trick to deceive Wellington voters. Audrey hates being used for political ends.
Vote:October 31st, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Oh don’t get me started on ‘Hamstrung of the Herald’.
I wonder if, as the last week comes in that National are going to ‘put this baby to bed’. You, know, ‘nail the sucker’, as in ‘Put them to the sword’. as in ‘stick the boot in’, or ‘Whup them like they was they’ daddy.’.
I do hope so.
Vote:October 31st, 2008 at 5:03 pm
And what is Phil goff up to?
No reason, just asking a question.
Vote:October 31st, 2008 at 5:07 pm
I’m still waiting for the headline “Young outs Clark!”
Vote:October 31st, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Grant Robertson was also claiming endorsement from Colin James as well for which he has now apologised.
Vote:October 31st, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Bagging the herald must be todays strategy from the 9th floor. Labours Lynn Prentice is again trying to savage both Whale, and the Herald
http://www.policy.net.nz/blog/2008/10/30/national-wins-election/#comment-4056
Vote:October 31st, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Test
Vote:October 31st, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Grant Robertson still has the endorsements on his website though.
Vote:October 31st, 2008 at 5:58 pm
And talking of flips flops hasn’t Helen taken over the world title after this week? Doesn’t even know who paid Mike for his little trip.
Vote:October 31st, 2008 at 5:59 pm
I think Labour has given up on the middle class vote and going for the high earners. Thats the only thing that can explain why a person on $35K is better off under Nationals redundancy scheme, yet under Labours the $200K salary earner gets the big payout
Vote:October 31st, 2008 at 6:25 pm
“And talking of flips flops hasn’t Helen taken over the world title after this week?”
excatly
Who did she say she believed- Owen Glenn or Winston Peters over the donation?
what date she put a stop to the honorary consul position again, November or Feb?
who asked Winston Peters to stand down?
What was her knowledge over the H Fee again?
who paid Mike Williams to go to Melbourne?
didnt she recently promise no more expenditure – before the redundancy compensation scheme?
and now of course Audrey Young on redundancy compensations
Have I missed any? you’d think TV1 would be doing better than reporting some Indian Nat MP in Sth Ak FFS
Vote:October 31st, 2008 at 7:05 pm
God, Audrey’s occupation seems to be promoting her own self righteous indignation. She’s quiet as a mouse on the political events that matter and that would cast sunlight onto labour’s corruption, but tell her she got it wrong, made it up, went fishing or heaven forbid lied and she’s off – wailing like a banshee for weeks. Point out her obvious bias and silence and the best she’ll manage is an aloof attitude of “well who cares, Labour and National are both dishonest…”. I don’t give a fuck about her “reputation” when it’s the only she she really cares about.
Vote:October 31st, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Regardless of who she is calling out, Audrey Young should pull her head out of her arse. She is just a reporter FFS.
Vote:October 31st, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Haguess said:
Well someone better email Audrey about it then, quick-smart.
Vote:October 31st, 2008 at 9:50 pm
The best thing is that the MSM are about to switch to moderate right.
Perhaps they are fed up of nearly 700 tax payer funded and consultant, spindoctors trying to tell them what to say.
It is so obvious that the tide is out for Labour/NZ1/Greens AXIS of Weevil!
Vote:October 31st, 2008 at 10:13 pm
Labour… running on empty
Vote:October 31st, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Re Clark’s overall behaviour, I purchased a copy of Dr Michael Bassett’s book Working With David: Inside the Lange Cabinet from Borders tonight.
In the epilogue on page 539 whilst recounting what happened at the first cabinet meeting after the 1990 election fiasco Clark “promised to be ‘as vicious, nasty and opportunist as anyone’ in the fight to return Labour to the Treasury benches”.
Well from where I stand she’s still vicious, nasty and opportunist!
The other interesting statistic in the book on the previous page from the quote above is the election result from 1990:
National: 47.82%
Labour: 35.14%
Pretty much what the polls are saying now.
Vote:October 31st, 2008 at 11:06 pm
Heads up folks, tomorrow’s Dominion Post has a giant Winston Peters cash-for-policy scandal. Meurant taped his phone calls with Peters and Phil Kitchin has the transcripts. The Vela family was topping up Meurant’s Parliamentary salary while he was NZ First’s policy advisor, specifically shaping NZ First as a party that would deliver largesse to the racing and fishing industries. Cash for policy! Peters should be sent to jail for this.
Vote:October 31st, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Wycroft,
Those stories like you describe have been going around for ages especially involving the Vela’s.
Cannot wait to read this stuff in the morning.
Vote:October 31st, 2008 at 11:16 pm
Yep, this is the flesh on the bones we’ve all been waiting for. Peters yelling down the phone to Meurant to get him the Vela family’s helicopter for campaigning. And much more.
Vote:October 31st, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Over at the The Hive Queen Bee has heard similar types of rumors about what the Dom Post have in store.
Vote:October 31st, 2008 at 11:23 pm
I don’t mind the boredom that has afflicted the election campaign for the first couple of weeks so much now after all the drama this week and what’s coming!
Vote:October 31st, 2008 at 11:47 pm
should is the operative word there.
I have close to nil confidence that any politician will be held to account these days, mainly because this Labour-led government has been like a agent orange to the values of honour, integrity and respect in our political system.
Vote:October 31st, 2008 at 11:48 pm
What ever happened to the investigators that had much to report but then vanished with things on Labour around a year ago??
Vote:I thought that story may return about now…. yet nothing????
However… flesh OFF bones will do
November 1st, 2008 at 12:18 am
Her evil corruptness is about to take another huge fall!
There is a lot of questionable stuff about to be revealed.
The prime Mentalist is about to get it back in spades!
Listening to all the goosip from the staffers for the past 6 months has been fascinating.
They love the job and the perks, and generally hate the bitches around the cauldron.
The pretty young things don’t appreciate being hit on by wobbly old parliamentarians!
Animal Farm with sexual malevolence!
They think that they are impregnable.
Well to be fair the transgender one, with an artificial dick is certainly inpregnable.
Vote:November 1st, 2008 at 4:03 am
Hels wrong again, what a surprise.
She’ll be wrong on election night as well when she thinks New Zealand will return her for a forth term.
Is she in for a shock.
Vote:November 1st, 2008 at 10:45 am
The wheels are not only falling off Labour’s campaign, the engine has fallen out.
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