As well as the same script, same plot stuff etc, it is suspicious when people appointed to top jobs take their glorified PA’s with them too. After all H2 would have had absolutely ZIP experience in the UN organisation and thus bumped out someone else from within the organisation that had been there previously in that role (or has denied existing staffers the opportunity to apply for the position etc). Wonder who that was and is there a story there waiting to be told?

October 21st, 2009 at 9:05 am
“We have some serious issues to face in NZ and many of them are caused by a lack of accountability, which leads to lack of responsibility. Why follow the rules if there are no consequences for breaking them?”

“Leaders are supposed to set an example. The rot starts at the top. Whichever way you want to look at it, Clark failed to provide any moral leadership to NZ’ers during her tenure. There is nothing in her past that young NZ’ers can look up to and aspire to. ”

You are so right Craig. Unfortunately so is Shunda barunda “It is no accident or luck that she got this job, it is necessary for the UN to reach its goal of greater global authority and reducing the sovereignty of member nations, ”

Every treaty/agreement signed with the UN reduces our sovereignty and puts us one step closer to a global government.

We can no longer count on the USA as an example of a free people as that to is changing.

When the president of the USA will not go to Europe to celebrate D-Day or the collapse of the Berlin Wall and communisim but will go to plead his case for the olympic games and to receive a peace prize that he hasnt earnt you know you have a shallow man who has warped sense of priorities.

When you have a PM who recommends an ex PM, the leader of a party who amongst so many other things breached the public finance bill for a senior position with the UN and who recommends the finance manager of that same party for a lead position with public entity then you know that you have swapped one set of morally bankrupt politicians for another.

What is John key ‘aspiring to’ I wonder? A position in the world government obviously.

I think its because DPF knows that the current government is lame. Yes they are hideously compromised by a decade of economic failure, and have been handed a hospital pass of a huge welfare state and no funding.

But the Nats havent exactly gone about developing any coherent policy yet. It must be tough for DPF watching the party he believes in floundering around like amateur hour. So lets go back and remember what we have certainty about.

in fact the country is so far gone that the Nats are simply possums in the headlights. They have nowhere to go, they have promised to keep the stupidest welfare state in the world, they can’t address “entitlements”, and they’ve left their “economic growth agenda” run too late.

They havent got their shit together, and the way they are going, they are going to rush things, screw them up in the Budget, and then enjoy a winter of discontent during 2011, where the world will see Greenpeace “activists” absailing down smokestacks with dead cows “proving” that NZ isnt clean and green, where “party central” demonstrates that McCully’s idea of a grand vision is a shed with a bit of tinsel on it, and the buses to eden park will be on strike.

In fact where is McCully? taking responsibility for his Maori TV F++k up? or has he found a vital and urgent need to be in Niue again?

Quelle surprise!

Oh how we will laugh! and the world will laugh with (at?) us…

Democracy should be about have elections, having a winner and a loser, accepting the result and moving on. Being stuck in these endless relitigations helps nobody.

We have a National gov’t, and a weak Labour opposition. So why is the site always going on about the past?

Don’t you think it strange that the UN’s third most senior leader refuses to give press conferences?

Don’t you think it strange that the General Secretary, who has a much bigger job manages to do monthly press conferences, but the UNDP Administrator can’t, so its clearly not the “busy schedule” but a matter of choice.

Don’t you think it strange that the UNDP scandals all seem to be in place?

Don’t you think it instructive that the Clark political machine is operating in NY EXACTLY as it operated in Wellington.

As for “robert winter” well some socialists never learn do they. What were these “significant achievements” the right are trying to trash – building a no-nothing beneficiary culture that can’t understand you need to grow wealth before you distribute it?

Look at NZ’s actual economic performance over the last decade – pathetic.

Look at the growth of welfare roles – astronomical

How well positioned is NZ to earn its way – worse than in 1999

nearly 1/3 of our most skilled workforce has left the country for God’s sake!

Even her crap about “sustainability” and “carbon-neutrality” turned out to be stump speeches for her next job, but wholly illusiory in fact.

Then there was the corruption – how many National Government’s have had Ministers in Office engaged in criminal activity. How many former National Ministers are now in jail for fraud. How many National Ministers have been in Court for Assault charges? How many National Prime Ministers brazened it out, knowing that a supine media and sycophantic party would never dare to question them?

Yeah, I’m jealous all right, so jealous I could weep!

The UNDP will very shortly become the most powerful part of the UN if Copenhagen goes the way of the political ideologues currently drooling at the prospect.
Clark is a very careful appointment, she and her girlfriend are incredibly efficient in moving quickly behind the scenes, Clark is the political equivalent of a stealth bomber.
It is no accident or luck that she got this job, it is necessary for the UN to reach its goal of greater global authority and reducing the sovereignty of member nations, even Key was scared off even talking about S59 before his visit to New York.
With the seeming incompetence and idealism from the current US administration I think the extreme left have the best chance in a lifetime of implementing their goals for the developing world and beyond.

there are consequences. Labour lost, and are now in disarray.

But there is a point you make that I accept. When Clark was PM, she did encourage divisiveness. Her dislike of the business community was at times pathological.

But we are not going to see balance by seeing Clark ‘burned’, now that she has gone. At some point this cycle has to be broken, and now would seem a good point to start. . .

In other news, the right still gets off on hating HC!

We have some serious issues to face in NZ and many of them are caused by a lack of accountability, which leads to lack of responsibility. Why follow the rules if there are no consequences for breaking them?

Leaders are supposed to set an example. The rot starts at the top. Whichever way you want to look at it, Clark failed to provide any moral leadership to NZ’ers during her tenure. There is nothing in her past that young NZ’ers can look up to and aspire to. Anything good is only highlighted my the smoke and mirrors of Heather Simpson and a cowardly local media.

That her behaviour was rewarded with the No.3 UN job is shameful. her performance in that role over the past year has demonstrated her lack of ability and once again Simpson has moved into the role of protector.

If Clarks true personality and limited ability was clearly shown to NZ’ers then we could move on from the politics of divisiveness that Clark herself implemented and encouraged during her tenure.

We need some balance in our political landscape and seeing Clark burned on the alter of truth would be a good start.

DPF, this may all be good fun, but if you had any historical sense you would know that encouraging further polarisation – as these sorts of posts do – is reckless. The US is now rooted, in large part because its politics is so polarised. We are copying that model here, and we wonder why we can’t build the sort of policy consensus they have in Australia.

Have you heard the left screaming about how Jenny Shipley screwed the minorities as a director of Richina Pacific? No, because no one cares.

Move on, for NZ’s sake

Why do you think we’re no longer reading the media?