Comments on: Amy Adams Maiden Speech

By: Straight Shooter

Straight Shooter — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:57:45 +0000

I watched the Amy Adams maiden speech and I couldn’t believe she chose Sir John Hall as an inspirational figure. She obviously did not do enough research.

Sir John Hall was at the helm of the most corrupt government in New Zealand’s history. In 1882 election he got Parihaka invaded and destroyed as an election stunt. His actions during this horrendous event exposed his opportunistic and cowardly character.

No doubt he was an effective politician as he achieved many of this goals. It is just his goals and his motives I question. His ‘support’ for female suffrage is as cyncial as it was opportunistic. He supported something he did not expect to get support. It was one of the few times he was truly outplayed (by the suffragettes) in his political career.

Learn from you history, Amy, or you will be condemned to repeat it.

By: dad4justice

dad4justice — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:15:41 +0000

Cut the crap about the St Bedes mafia jacob van farthog. Interesting development to come for Selwyn.

By: jacob van hartog

jacob van hartog — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:17:30 +0000

No thanks to David Carter ??.

he was of course the pre selected candidate for Selwyn until his crooked dealings forced him out

Not another St Bedes mafia too

By: pdm

pdm — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:00:06 +0000

I thought Hekia Parata was equally good – an assured and articulate lady.

By: Adolf Fiinkensein

Adolf Fiinkensein — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:47:18 +0000

Now this I’d like to see.

“…successfully sheppard…. ”

Has even Hansard succumbed to the NCEA virus?

By: dave strings

dave strings — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:23:42 +0000

An excellent beginning

I’m glad that the facts of business are starting to be shouted out again in the chamber. The fact that thousands of my fellow Kiwis are prepared to take on the responsibility for feeding, housing and entertaining other peoples’ families in return for their labour is the base on which our economy is built.

When I owned and operated a small business, many people thought I was a rich-prick, my wife thought I was a contributor to bankers bonus schemes! When I needed to hire someone I did everything possible to make sure they were right for the job, but it didn’t always turn out to be so, and then I was stuck with another mortgage and fridge and set of power-bills and restaurant bills and school bills and bills and bills and bills that no additional profit was coming in to pay for. It took me two months to see through the bastard (whose ex-employers were too PC to tell the truth about,) and another six months to get him out of the door. The 90 day probation period would have solved my problem, but it wasn’t there to use, and you can’t go after someone who gives a ‘suspect’ reference for compensation either!

The new Parliament seems to have enough people in it who have gone through the risks of helping develop the economy to have a chance of getting us back on track again at a time when the country is facing disastrous times. (Deja vu – wasn’t that the case after the last Labour Government?) We should be grateful to the deity we hold dear for such fortune being ours – again.