Carter’s website
October 15th, 2010 at 12:00 pm by David FarrarFrom Chris Carter’s website:
Well they say a week is a long time in politics. The last 3 months have been an even longer time for me. I know that you are probably wondering what on earth went wrong and why.
The simple truth of the matter is that I have had a really difficult 12 months in Parliament. Not from the people I would expect in the National or ACT parties but from some members of our own team. I felt really angry and let down by Phil Goff and his advisors over their lack of support for Peter and I over the vicious media campaign against my travel expenses. After all none of my travel was private and all of it was approved by Cabinet when I was a Minister and by the party leadership up until a couple of months ago. Remember Phil Goff and Annette King were members of the Cabinet that signed off all my ministerial travel.
Three months ago a journalist called me and revealed that Phil Goff’s office had leaked details of my travel expenses again to the Press Gallery. I had not even received these figures myself. I flipped out and in anger and poor judgement lashed back.
It would be interesting to know if this can be verified. While I have little sympathy for Carter over his travels, if Goff’s office did leak his travel expenses then that is an act of very bad faith.
It would seem that the current leadership of the party think that me saying in public that Phil Goff is a nice guy who works hard but doesn’t have the charisma or the clear policy directions to win the next election is more of a crime than some of the criticisms levelled by other Labour MPs in the past at Labour leaders. Richard Prebble called David Lange mentally unbalanced in 1987. Annette King and Phil Goff tried to roll Helen Clark in 1996. John Tamihere said he had 15 MPs to roll Helen Clark in 2005 when he did that infamous interview in Investigate magazine.
I think the difference is Tamihere didn’t carry on repeating it.
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October 15th, 2010 at 12:03 pm
Wa wa.
And on the subject of expecting National and Act to be meaner who is he kidding? You just have to appear to be against your political enemies but ultimately they’re not competitors for jobs etc. Yes Minister explains it much better than me.
Vote:October 15th, 2010 at 12:05 pm
Self obsessive self justifying self indulgent crap.
Just another narcissist.
With his unending attacks on Goff and his own party, Carter’s the gift that keeps giving.
To the National Party.
Vote:October 15th, 2010 at 12:08 pm
Any day now – Carter releases a version of Warren Zevon’s Poor Poor Pitiful Me:
“Poor poor pitiful me
Vote:Poor poor pitiful me
Oh these boys won’t let me be
Lord have mercy on me
Woe woe is me.”
October 15th, 2010 at 12:13 pm
I think he is ill, he needs to put a plug in it for a while.
Vote:October 15th, 2010 at 12:15 pm
Carter has got to be a contender for the Guinness Longest Tantrum world record. Generally two year olds calm down after a few minutes or an hour at the most, whereas Carter just keeps on going and going and going.
Vote:October 15th, 2010 at 12:17 pm
And this just about sums up Carter:
I’m So Ronery
So ronery
So ronery and sadry arone
There’s no one
Just me onry
Sitting on my rittle throne
I work rearry hard and make up great prans
But nobody ristens, no one understands
Seems like no one takes me serirousry
And so I’m ronery
A rittle ronery
Poor rittle me
There’s nobody
I can rerate to
Feel rike a bird in a cage
It’s kinda sihry
But not rearry
Because it’s fihring my body with rage
I’m the smartest most crever most physicarry fit
But nobody else seems to rearize it
When I change the world maybe they’ll notice me
But until then I’rr just be ronery
Rittle ronery, poor rittle me
I’m so ronery
Vote:October 15th, 2010 at 12:17 pm
QUESTION!, why is the Te Atatu Labour Party Branch allowed to have its political meetings at a state owned Primary School?
and the NZEI and Principals federation expect us to believe they have genuine impartial concerns!
Vote:October 15th, 2010 at 12:17 pm
An extended chrissy fit.
Vote:October 15th, 2010 at 12:23 pm
Carter’s been on various radio news bulletins saying how he’s upset that Smith is kicking him whilst he’s downm, and he’s feeling victimised. But the clincher was RadioLive at 11am where he said he was upset that Lockwood Smith’s action was “damaging his reputation”
Isn’t Carter “damaging his reputation” every time he opens his gob at the moment?
http://keepingstock.blogspot.com/2010/10/give-us-strength.html
Vote:October 15th, 2010 at 12:26 pm
While it’s very pleasing to see the Liarbore loons at each others throats surely Carter must at some stage realise he is cutting his own throat. Who in NZ has not heard of the infamous Chris Carter and his love of big time troughing and who in their right mind would now offer him a job. Carter better hope that Peter can supplement his income as I would assume he is very high maintenance.
Vote:October 15th, 2010 at 12:27 pm
Inv – when Lockwood fines him for shirking his duties, it’s damaging the reputation Chris thinks he has. Every time Chris opens his trap he’s *reinforcing* the reputation he actually has…
Vote:October 15th, 2010 at 12:28 pm
“Lack of support for Peter and I over vicious media attacks”. Is the freudian slip where his written expression varies from that which Mrs Pocock taught ME and the rest of the third form in the 1950s or is it just the narcissistic thinking that has I as the center of his thought process. Of course it is all about me though where Koru Carter resides isn’t it.
Vote:October 15th, 2010 at 12:31 pm
Looks to me like Chris is rewriting history. I may be wrong, but weren’t the travel details of the former Labour ministers released by National? What gets me about Chris is that he still does not seem to have grasped that it is his own actions that are in question. It is always someone else’s fault with this guy. He put his hand up for every trip going when a minister, and Clark signed them all off, then when later called on to justify his excessive travel, did he own up? No, it was the media’s fault. Then it was because he was being picked on for being gay. Then it was Goff’s fault. Then the media’s fault again. Now it’s Goff’s staff’s fault. And now it’s Lockwood’s fault for picking on him by fining him for not turning up for work. It is really sad that this guy can have achieved election to Parliament and have been a minister for so long, yet still behave like a 9 year old. The guy is a case study in narcissism and denial.
Vote:October 15th, 2010 at 12:40 pm
It’s all very amusing to see this petulant twat, giving encore after encore, but….
..it just serves to take the focus and electoral pressure off the real problem in NZ – namely, an ineffective National government which has no vision or ideas for making NZ a more prosperous place. On our current trajectory we’ll be sucked dry by Australia, UK and USA. Then NZ will be just a backwater of retirees and bludgers.
Vote:October 15th, 2010 at 12:43 pm
@ Tom; it’s a rare old day. First, I agreed with Phil Goff when he descrivbed Carter as a narcissist. Now I agree with you when you talk about Carter’s expenses.
I listened to him talking to Willie and JT yesterday afternoon, and he seems to have completely self-justified every dollar of taxpayer money that he spent. The most revealing part of the interview (apart from Jackson TWICE calling Carter a “poofter”) was that his apology on 25 June where he said “I’m sorry” 27 times was a fraud, and his sackcloth-and-ashes act was just that; a wind-up for the assembled news media. Carter is not only a trougher; he’s a narcissistic oaf.
Vote:October 15th, 2010 at 12:44 pm
I think Chris needs to turn up at the Labour Party Conference this weekend with the UNITE Union demanding reinstatement .. said it before and I’m saying it again. It seems to be a dispute between a Employeer, of sorts, and an employee. Why arn’t the unions helping Chris?
Vote:October 15th, 2010 at 12:44 pm
Carter clearly fails to see the wood through the trees. He openly is not sorry for his travel expenses and cannot understand why he is victimised. I really cannot speak about the justification for his foreign travel. I question why a minister of Education need to travel so extensively. That said, my biggest problem was his behaviour during travel. I came across credit card reciepts for luxury tourist resorts in Fiji, a place where Peter could have a spa treatment at the expense of the taxpayer. OK they paid for the Spa, but surely Fiji has Hotels suitable for business purposes at a much lower room rate. No reason why Peter cannot taxi out to get his spa treatment. Another occasion there was a trip to Christchurch where he stayed in a hotel frequented by other Ministers. Most would pay $150-200 per night which is acceptable. Carter seemed to get rooms that were twice the price. I could not be bothered going through all his credit card bills, but compared to other Ministers, it appears he had no problem charging a few extra luxuries to the state.
Vote:October 15th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
Apartfrom DPF does anyone else read Carter’s blog and if they do why?
Vote:October 15th, 2010 at 12:54 pm
@Pete: re “chrissy fit”, very apt. I hope that gets widespread usage.
Vote:October 15th, 2010 at 12:59 pm
Grizz, fairly simple explanation for why the education minister was an international frequent flier. Two words: Helen Clark. Perpetual victim Chris was her pet. He gained selection solely as an identity candidate. He got into cabinet on the same basis. He was pampered and lauded for his ground breaking contribution, that of being a homosexual in parliament and then of being a homosexual in cabinet. Little wonder that he cannot understand how come he is being judged against the standards by which all other MPs and ministers are judged. He is there because he is a homosexual. So as long as he keeps being one, he has met his obligation. And of course, he cannot understand why the media and the public cannot see that as a trail blazer for homosexuals, he should be treated as such, like Mandela or Obama for example. Poor Chris has been so sheltered from the real world, he cannot cope when his parallel universe disappeared.
Vote:October 15th, 2010 at 1:10 pm
Words fail…
I think even Aunty Helen will be distancing herself from him now. In fact I am sure she will – at least she has enough shreds of integrity to value her party ahead of any individual within it (current of former)
Vote:October 15th, 2010 at 1:15 pm
The links to Carter’s site do not work. Has he turned it off, or has it collapsed under the weight of people suddenly clicking on it?
[DPF: Working ok for me now]
Vote:October 15th, 2010 at 1:17 pm
When on the Willie & JT show, Chris even had the gall to compare his exhile to that of Leon Trotsky !
Vote:October 15th, 2010 at 1:19 pm
Oops, exile, I mean. Where is the edit function when I need it?
Vote:October 15th, 2010 at 1:32 pm
I simply cannot believe that Carter refuses to admit that his travel was excessive, a minister of foreign affairs would be asked questions if he spent as much as Carter but for a minister of education to spend that much is simply not justifiable.
Vote:October 15th, 2010 at 1:45 pm
Let’s see if Carter is brave enough to let this comment through moderation
“Bruv:
Your comment is awaiting moderation.
October 15, 2010 at 1:44 pm
Chris;
Until you admit that you abused the travel perk very few people are going to have any sympathy for you.
The amount you spent on overseas travel and expenses for a minister of education is simply not acceptable.
Nor is it acceptable to hide behind the “it was signed off by Clark” or “it was signed off by Cabinet”, everybody knows that this is a smokescreen.
Grow up, admit you were wrong to abuse the tax payer in such a fashion and you may well find that the public start to get in behind you, your basic message is right, Labour cannot and will not win under Goff but that message is lost while you maintain that you did nothing wrong.”
Vote:October 15th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
Interesting that the heading is “Message to friends and supporters.” Chris could have saved time and rung both of them himself.
Vote:October 15th, 2010 at 2:45 pm
Cheeky to sneak that one in, BB. So to speak.
Vote:October 15th, 2010 at 3:20 pm
So I’m with GPT1 all I heard was wah wah wah.
time to STFU now Chrissy, theres a good little nappy wetting egomaniac. Your time is up.
Vote:October 15th, 2010 at 3:20 pm
The funny thing is – if you did a poll now – I reckon Carter would get better name recognition that goofy goff, and would probably poll higher in the preferred PM state between the two.
@ chrissy-fit – that was brilliant.
Vote:October 15th, 2010 at 3:31 pm
Name recognition isn;t the same thing as popularity. Ask Times man of the century.
Vote:October 15th, 2010 at 3:37 pm
“he needs to put a plug in it for a while.”
rakuraku, ewww, did you really mean to say that?
Vote:October 15th, 2010 at 3:45 pm
For “Cabinet” read “Helen Clark (and maybe Heather Simpson)”. And for the reasons why he was indulged, refer Tom Gould’s 12.59 pm comment, which sums it up perfectly.
Given that it’s obvious that his homosexuality was what brought about his patronage by Clark (a conclusion supported by his lack of talent, vision and hard work) it’s appalling that Carter was willing to trade on it in the way he has. By contrast, I have a lesbian friend who’s absolutely paranoid that any positive thing that comes her way – from a good mark on a university paper to a promotion – isn’t an example of tokenism that she requires extensive reassurance that she got it on merit.
I put that down to her pride, her self respect, and her unwillingness to be defined solely by her sexuality – all things which Carter clearly lacks (along with any sense of proportion or realistic assessment of self).
Vote:October 15th, 2010 at 4:02 pm
Chris will be found a job . Thats one of the things that really pisses me off to see all sides particpating in the troughing.
Look at them all. In central government local government if they lose their seat they are appointed to various useless Boards and Committee all paying a nice earner daily rate plus expenses.
At least Banksie didnt. He went back to the private sector.
No one in their right and I do mean right mind would employ Carter or any other Leftie in the commercial world.
They have no understanding of business.
Vote:October 15th, 2010 at 6:12 pm
Have a listen to his whining victimhood on today’s Morning Report:
Chris Carter denies shirking his parliamentary duties at 7:52 AM
Sorry I can’t link straight to it, it’s a download file.
But honestly, his thinking is seriously self-centred, to the extent it’s almost childish in its naivity.
Vote:October 16th, 2010 at 7:36 am
No wonder this country is in the “Shit”.
Vote:October 16th, 2010 at 1:14 pm
I think it would be helpful to know how often Carter took his partner Peter Kaiser overseas with him at taxpayers expense (and how much the bill came to), compared with other Cabinet Ministers taking their partners.
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