What a fucking dickhead.

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“The worry for me is that Hone was the leader of that delegation and I guess that what we are going to be questioned about in future, in terms of any trips overseas, is that `can we give a guarantee that this won’t happen again, it happened in Australia?’ And with hand over heart I don’t think we can give that guarantee.”

“All of us have to be really conscious as to the perception that’s created as to how we use public funds, the public doesn’t actually fund us to go on holidays and to have a look around and that’s the reality.”
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Source: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10607633

As I’ll say in my Public Address Radio piece this week (Radio Live, Sunday, 7pm), you don’t need to think too hard about how Hone would react if John Key blew off a hui to go tiki touring with his family — then said it didn’t matter because he’d kicked around the kaupapa at dinner the night before and, anyway, Pita Sharples and Georgina Te Heu Heu were there to take notes and report back to him. The Maori Party would be embarrassed and more than a little pissed off — and rightly so.

heinie..?

and why is it a bye-word for boring..

phil(whoar.co.nz)

Brussels blew me away. Clean city. Shedloads to see and well set out. Culture oozing from all over the city. Excellent beer and great food, and cheaper than Paris. Never got round to shopping as I was sightseeing nonstop for 4 days. People who diss it either have never been there or don’t have many brain cells to rub together.

This is a thread about Hone – FYI I feel exactly the same about Rodney’s recent exploits.
You are of course, assuming that I too am white.

It’s OK for the white guys and gals to do it, but not the Maori boy.

Says it all, really.

Seriously, it fucks me right off, good and proper. I see it in the corporate world as well. Senior managers usually executives taking overseas junkets to conferences when if they had any loyalty to the corporate they worked for, they would send the people who actually do the work – operate the system, organise the logistics, etc etc.

On the grounds it would be of most benefit to the organisation for those ground-level people to get exposed to the thinking since those execs have no idea whatsoever what half the presentations are about.

You see it all the time in corporates. The one place you hardly ever see it, is on-to-it private consultancies who actually do send the right people. Forget the big six, they’re corporates. I’m talking the small consultancies. For some reason, those businesses manage to carve out their own niche and become very successful indeed. Who woulda thunk.

Put every politician’s travel on hold for a decade except for the Foreign Minister and the PM, and send instead the permanent staffers from their offices.

They claim this is for information/best practice/idea sharing. So if that’s the case, why the fuck does the Minister/MP go? I mean, their staffers are MUCH more experienced in the portfolio than they are, so IF that’s really the case, we’d get much more bang for our very very precious buck sending the most experienced people, wouldn’t we.

I await with interest a response from any politician.

He has demonstrated, that
It is okay to bunk off school
Particularly if you have something better to do
And when you are questioned about it – you justify it by saying you had a great time, and give the finger to the authorities.

With huge numbers of Maori youth failing to turn up to the classroom every day, Hone has demonstrated exactly why these young people are over-represented in our national crime statistics and failing to reach their potential.

What’s worse he did it while representing the NZ Government using tax payers money.

grumpy, swallow your sarcasm and have the courage to criticise your fellow Maori trougher, or is it that the blood/race bond have blinded you to Hone’s misbehaviour?

Harawira is as guilty as Hide, Douglas, Hunt, Bunkle, Hobbs, etc. In fact, the list of parasites of all races is endless.

Give me F-ing strength