RIP Mike Minogue
November 28th, 2008 at 2:07 pm by David FarrarNZPA reports:
Wellington, Nov 28 NZPA – Former Hamilton mayor and National MP Mike Minogue, known for going head-to-head with his leader Robert Muldoon, died early yesterday after a brief battle with cancer.
He was 85 years old. …
He represented the Hamilton West electorate until the 1984 election, when he lost his seat to Labour Party challenger Trevor Mallard.
Minogue was a good man.
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November 28th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Yeah I’ll have one for Mike tonight. Its sad to think he got defeated in Hamilton by the likes of Mallard and even sadder to realise that it was not only us stupid bastards of Hutt South who were prepared to put an absolute asshole into parliament.
Vote:November 28th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
I’d forgotten Trevor tipped Mike out of that seat. Indeed you’ve said it all in your last sentence, DPF. A truly good man, who embodied what it means to be a representative of the people who elected you.
A Parliament of 120 Mike Minogues (regardless of the political flag they were flying under) would be immeasurably superior to anything we could produce today, regardless of whether we used MMP, FPP or anything else.
Just how wearying it can be to chart the right course while all around you are following whichever way the wind blows is evident, I think, in the fact that he could have made a huge contribution to public life even after his defeat, yet we didn’t hear too much from him. Obviously he decided to enjoy a well-deserved rest, and good on him. But what a loss to the rest of us.
Vote:November 28th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Sheesh – he was 85! I would have thought mid-seventies at the oldest. It’s sad in some ways that he will be remembered primarily for having stood up to Muldoon.
Vote:November 28th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Minogue was a good man.
DPF, obviously Minogue wasn’t your forth form geography teacher because I’ll always remember him as a sadistic prick, along with Budgie, Crammond and Farquar the boy bunter, who drew blood more often than not.
Vote:November 28th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
another voice the media drowned I’m thinking.
Vote:November 28th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
“DPF, obviously Minogue wasn’t your forth form geography teacher because I’ll always remember him as a sadistic prick, along with Budgie, Crammond and Farquar the boy bunter, who drew blood more often than not.”
Prefer Benson Pope and his ball skills then do you? Harden up lad a good caning is what you need by the sound of it.
Vote:November 28th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
DPF, I agree that Minogue was a good man. RIP Mike Minogue.
He was a man of principles, and was prepared to sacrifice his political career for what he believed in.
Unlike most other National or Labour politicians, I might add. And unlike ACT, who I once thought were a party of principles (albeit a number of them with which I do not agree, but still respected them for adhering to), but who now appear to have gone down the path of selling their souls for the sake of political expediencey to the Owen McShanes of this world who choose to deny science.
Vote:November 28th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
“now appear to have gone down the path of selling their souls for the sake of political expediencey to the Owen McShanes of this world who choose to deny science.”
Obviously a misprint should read:
“now appear to have gone down the path of selling their souls for the sake of political expediencey to the Owen McShanes of this world who choose to deny ‘my version of’ science.”
Vote:November 28th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
A man of Minogue’s principles would never appear under any flag except that of the National party.
He worked hard to hold the left wing Muldoon to account.
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