Who knows maybe there is something more to it (like media and opposition suspect, the perception is there), but yet AG investigating it in the full course of actions taken make Key look good.

I think the suspicion of there maybe being more into it comes from them cutting the press conference short when they started to question Heatley why he was resigning over a small matter instead of just stepping aside till the AG report, so the perception is created that ‘Maybe he has something to hide and it will come out when the AG reports back). But in his defence if he comes back squeeky clean may have been the exhaustion he would have been under and wanting to cut it short (press conference) etc, but that perception (he may have more to hide) is still there though…

As it is Key expressed that he would have been happy for Heatley to just step aside as opposed to the full resignation, but if he comes in squeeky clean it looks like he will be rehabilitated a lot quicker than Clark put own her minions back into Cabinet…

You want Greenfly back here yet your own site bans people for what you guys class as “trolling”.

Not very consistent is it, even for a socialist.

If Heatley gets a clean bill of health then that makes it easy for Key to ease him back into Cabinet in the fulness of time a la Ruth Dyson. If it’s clear he played fast and loose with the authorisations a number of times, Key simply says that he was right to accept his resignation and that there is no chance of him being part of the Executive again.

If the former is the case then Heatley has shown rare integrity and an astute political antennae to head off a political storm at the pass. If it is the latter then Heatley was wise to jump before he was pushed.

So much more neat and tidy than the way Clark handled the $900k pledge card rort.

You are deluded, greenfly was a watermelon. Looked green, hard core lefty through and through and abusive to boot.

Yes, still 5th form French – actually, I did 6th form French too, but have had very little time in Francophone countries, so pretty rusty with it.

;Je fais aussi bien que je peux sur Kiwiblog, même si je dois m’occuper de “Le Grande Fromage”. Je peux parler le Français, la mouche verte. La pitié vous ne pouvez pas vous trouver présent pour parler te reo Maori!

Te Reo Maori est acceptable – Te Reo Maori devrait être la langue de chacun dans ce pays.

Mais presque personne ici parle le Français. Je m’excuse.

Yep, I know this is a plaintive plea to DPF to let my mate greenfly back here as a commenter. Come on DPF, the humour ‘fly provides has to be worth the occasional pisstake at your expense. No-one else from a Green perspective can do that better (apart from Catherine Delahunty, and you wouldn’t want her commenting here on a regular basis, would you?)

So how about letting greenfly back DPF! Pretty please? With sugar?

Oh, and ban d4j, on the basis of the “Nigger” comments yesterday. Just for a wee while – I do not support censorship, but that effort from d4j was extraordinarily offensive. Needs a carrot, but also needs a stick.

I don’t dispute that is a possibility. However the difference in application of standards between National and Labour is stunning. Absolutely stunning. Thank you Phil Heatley for starting the restoration of accountability in parliament.

Wishart covered the David Parker saga quite well. Stories of selling air conditioning units from a development while it was in receivership was a key plank if I remember correctly. A chap I know in Dunedin was named in the article as a sub contractor to the development company that Parker was involved with before the liquidation. The story rumbled around parliament for a brief moment before it was moved on. Then the story refocused on the false company office returns which became a slap with a wet bus ticket. Perhaps the $70 will be the slap, keep your eyes open for a whitewash.

If you had waited till an internal poke around found a discrepancy prompting an external audit then yes you probably would have resigned, and it may have been accepted. In your example you didn’t wait to be caught. I agree, question of intent or perhaps an issue of entitlement.

Public money has a much higher standard of accountability – and rightfully so.

However I agree it is a severe consequence but I do wonder if I think that it is severe because compared to the previous crowd where people didn’t resign over hundreds of thousands of dollars I’m just not use to seeing the high standard of accountability that we see now.

I think it sets a good example and resets the bar – which was very much needed.

as for toad, his track record isnt the best. he spent weeks ranting against the “fire at will” bill, promised multiple cases where an emplyeee had been hard done by. so far he hasnt produced any.

its just a way of looking for cheap political points, score em now. muse that “who knows what they AG will find”.. knowing full well the report will take a while and when nothing comes of it.. who cares. points have been scored.

youre better than that toad, i think.