Shane Jones and Yang Liu
Ian Wishart has more damning documents in tonight’s TGIF. It’s proving very good value for $3 a month.
His documents include the clear advice from Internal Affairs that Shane Jones decline the application and that Liu was under active criminal investigation within New Zealand. There is also a revelation of a Cabinet Minister who received a donation from Liu, lobbying his Cabinet Colleague Jones on Liu’s behalf.
I advocated that Labour, when in power, should have established a full independent inquiry into the granting of citizenship. They failed to do so, once again trying to hide beind a Departmental Inquiry knowing such an inquiry can not question Ministers over their actions.
Now it is slightly more difficult for John Key to launch a public inquiry, as it is into a former Minister and could be seen as partisan. But what he should do is approach Phil Goff and get Goff’s agreement to a terms of reference into the granting of citizenship to Liu. Key and Goff would both be praised for ding the right thing, and a break from the past practice of trying to over these things up.
November 21st, 2008 at 1:56 pm
I would love to see Jones get busted. If anything, it may get him off Holmes’ show!
November 21st, 2008 at 1:58 pm
But will Goff agree to do the right thing.
He spent the entire last 9yrs going along with all the lies and deceit even voting on it.
Is it that that’s then and now’s now?
November 21st, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Its heartening to see you granting Wishart the credit he deserves, DPF.
One hopes that it won’t remain possible as it has done for so long, for the “MSM” to successfully leave damning issues off the public radar. Half the stuff in “Absolute Power” would be complete and utter “news” to the great majority of NZ-ers.
One also hopes now that H1 is gone, the climate of fear in the civil service and maybe other departments of NZ’s life, will thaw out and further secrets be revealed.
November 21st, 2008 at 2:17 pm
The left are a corrupt and manipulative political force, and we need the bastards out of our lives. Get a real Police Commissioner in place (not the present leftist toady) and prosecute these arrogant bastards, from Klark to Jones to Carter to the full extent of the law. They think they’re above the law. Put them behind bars. Let’s have some real damn justice in this country for a change.
November 21st, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Can’t the man just be deported. It’s happenend before for far less.
November 21st, 2008 at 2:42 pm
I would like to know how popular ‘absolute Power’ was.
I would bet a week of my student allowance, Maori wouldn’t like it.
November 21st, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Can’t the man just be deported. It’s happened before for far less.
Come on, which country would really want Shane Jones ?
November 21st, 2008 at 2:57 pm
You can’t deport a NZ citizen.
That’s the whole crux of the matter.
November 21st, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Well there you go. Now you know why.
But Gooner, can you revoke his citizenship?
November 21st, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Watch the mainstream media spike the story. The stupid self important Marxist Jones is one of their political favourites.
November 21st, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Wikiri:……………As far as I can recall there is nothing adverse to Maori in the book except maybe passing reference to the ‘Wananga”. I can’t recall anything else Wishart has written being hurtful to Maori feelings. Why don’t you subscribe to TGIF and get a cheap copy of the book. In this case it seems to me that the Minister “Carter” knowing he had a hot potato on his hands passed it to JONES knowing that his natural arrogance would take the desired course. JONES of course has a lighter skin colour than the average Welshman.
November 21st, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Redbaiter … we have agreed to disagree on occasions. Your 4.11 pm is right on the ‘money’.
November 21st, 2008 at 9:04 pm
Alln the more reason that Helen Clark cannot accept any International Appointment.
November 21st, 2008 at 9:14 pm
So it is fine and dandy to import a dodgy Chinese Person, and yet since the turn of the decade some 25,000 Investor Category immigrants have been denied access. They had all the right qualifications. Winston ‘Chopper’ Peters put the block on so many inward immigrants in cahoots with Labour, as they were concerned that these ‘Rich Pricks’ that are liers like Keys might vote blue!
Labour need investigating, and Helen Clark is unfit for office. Any Office.
Winston Peters is a xenophopic, racist, charlatan. A thief and a robber. A twister and proven Liar.
How the hell the Greens thought that they had a good deal with these bastards is beyond me!