John Key said this morning that Phillip Field’s case was an isolated incident and there were no other cases of corruption in NZ politics. Although I fervently believe we need an Independent Commission I wont hold my breath as it would appear that Mr. Key doesn’t/wont believe there is/was anything wrong with the way politicians did business.

To be kind I can only think he is trying to protect NZ reputation overseas. Big mistake.

August 5th, 2009 at 2:00 am
Paul – the short answer to your question is “yes”. The law is still valid.

Graeme – Thank you for that. I was sure that would be the answer of course, but does it not raise constitutional issues where laws (hypothetically) could be passed by the vote of an individual who say was engaging in criminal conduct at the time that the law was passed, but subsequently found guilty of that criminal conduct that would ban him/her, from office? I wonder if such a matter has ever been tested in a court of law, anywhere in the world??

Here’s the headline:

Loyal Servant Shafted By Labour.

Here’s the subtext:

After years of doing the right thing for Labour by organising heaps of ‘extra’ votes and sending hundreds of thousands of dollars to the party, our father and our family has been treated like dirt. They knew what our father was doing because they asked him to do it. blah blah and so on and so forth.

And John Armstrong thinks Labour can heave a sigh of relief because the verdict is out? He’s dreaming.

“Ms Hunter said her stepfather was innocent and accused the Labour Party of orchestrating a conspiracy.”

in keeping with the left strategy of ‘the truth is nothing, perception is everything’ there’ll be a few TPF supporters who wont forget that

MP’s (more especially Electorate MP’s like Field) are elected to represent a specific constituency, but none of these illegal workers/immigrants were lawfully in New Zealand, so they should never have been regarded as constituents – he should not have been making representations on their behalf to Government agencies and Ministers.

Surely MP’s should confine themselves to representing only those people who are lawfully in this country?

…tee hee hee..vileness from the sub-standard…they just dont know when to bend over and take it do they…

DPF,
Your preparation of this post, taking into account your background and your connections, will raise some suspicions around the Press Gallery me thinks! I hope it doesn’t backfire.”

Not really, it was fairly obvious what the outcome was going to be, and had it gone the other way “Holy shit!” probably would have sufficed.

The title is ever so slightly wrong here.

LABOUR have NO SHAME.

Keep going Mr Goff. We love you!

Remember don’t change a thing. Everything is fine and dandy. You are doing a sterling job.

Well if he gets a cell next to Graham Capill he may be able to start planning for the 2055 election!

[DPF: It will raise no suspicions. Most of the gallery know me well enough that if I say I compiled it 100% myself, they will believe me. And I did. All I did was the same think the media did in the Weatherston trial - prepare a piece in advance of the verdict. I started work on it on Monday afternoon]

All good, Sorry I wasn’t having a go at you personally about being quiet on this. Clearly your other posts in this thread illustrate that you and I agree on this issue.

I wasn’t trying to frame you personally in what I saw as a stunning silence from many [workers rights activists] seemingly because it was a Labour MP and the PM’s inquiry eventually ‘exonerated’ Field. I mainly recall the McCarten situation because I had taken a bath on a blog a few weeks earlier because I had no defense to something along the lines of; ‘It is only ‘right wing numpties’ speaking up about Field – It’s a beat up and you have been sucked in…’

McCarten publishing what he did a few days/weeks after that was a refreshing read.