Great quote
July 31st, 2009 at 2:20 pm by David FarrarFrom Hansard yesterday:
Hon Clayton Cosgrove: Will the Minister give the House a further assurance that she will not be releasing private information held on Department of Corrections databases about these prison officers—or any other staff who choose to exercise their democratic rights and oppose her Government’s policies—in an attempt to intimidate them in the same way that her ministerial colleague Paula Bennett did in respect of two solo parents?
Hon JUDITH COLLINS: I do not think that question even deserves the dignity of an answer. It is so bad. Quite clearly I do not have access to such information; I do not want access to such information. Frankly, if I wanted to intimidate someone, they would know it.
Heh indeed they would. I understand there was a huge amount of laughter from all sides for that rejoinder.
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July 31st, 2009 at 2:41 pm
The clashes between Collins and Cosgrove is probably the most interesting in parliament.
Vote:July 31st, 2009 at 2:44 pm
I don’t understand why Cosgrove keeps coming back – the way Collins keeps slapping him down, he’s a glutton for punishment.
Either that or he’s just stupid.
Me thinks the latter.
Vote:July 31st, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Labout MPs have a thing about BDSM it seems.
Vote:July 31st, 2009 at 3:16 pm
I think Clayton is trying to make people forget that he was at the time chairing the said select committee where the Garrett incident occurred,
He should have ruled the comments out of order at the time, but did he ………
Vote:July 31st, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Can you get brain implants these days? You know, just drill news bits in through the skull and hope like hell they grow?
Vote:July 31st, 2009 at 3:36 pm
What’s that flying out of the park? Oh its cosgroves weak ass. Collins is the Terry Tate of the house http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzToNo7A-94
Vote:July 31st, 2009 at 3:38 pm
Smash em Judith
Vote:July 31st, 2009 at 4:01 pm
We had a word for people like Cosgrove back in the day : Wanker.
Such a wonderful word and so under-used these days.
Is there any film of him going up to Collins and asking for his balls back?
Vote:July 31st, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Agreed CraigM – I reckon he was one of those kids at school who had no mates.
Vote:July 31st, 2009 at 4:19 pm
Cosgrove is the Labour equivalent to Brownlee. Both are loud, have limited talent and been promoted far above their level of competency.
So who cares?
Before someone points out that there are a few others who have been promoted higher than they should, Goff and Wilkinson spring immediately to mind. However the St Bede old boys seem to excel (add Dunne, David Carter and Damien O’Connor to the list)
Vote:July 31st, 2009 at 4:46 pm
CraigM (520) Vote: 3 1 Says:
July 31st, 2009 at 4:01 pm
We had a word for people like Cosgrove back in the day : Wanker.
Such a wonderful word and so under-used these days.
Is there any film of him going up to Collins and asking for his balls back?
How do get something back you never had in the first place??
Vote:July 31st, 2009 at 5:02 pm
I found this answer far more amusing:
Hon JUDITH COLLINS: I have heard some reports about what happened in the select committee yesterday. I am clearly not responsible for comments that Mr Garrett made, but I note that the member who is asking the question was the chair of the committee, and the order of the committee should have been controlled by him.
Vote:July 31st, 2009 at 6:59 pm
“..# Adolf Fiinkensein (1029) Vote: Add rating 2 Subtract rating 1 Says:
July 31st, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Can you get brain implants these days? You know, just drill news bits in through the skull and hope like hell they grow?..”
is that a cry for help..?..adolf..?
..and yeah..!..collins’ comment fits with the whole ‘real face’ of national we are now seeing..
..and untill the penny drops that they are ensuring they will be a one-term government..
..it’s just gonna get uglier..
..(gonna campaign on a campaign of ‘privatisation’..?..next time out..?
..hilarious..!..
..do ya really believe..that after three years of a government doing nothing .. save for to save their own class..
..that the mug-punters/reef-fish will be able to be conned again..?
..into voting for you..?
(good luck with that one..!..eh..?..)
..one-term-john it is..
phil(whoar.co.nz)
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