The Wilce claims
October 28th, 2010 at 4:18 pm by David FarrarThe Herald has a full list of all the claims Stephen Wilce made:
- claims to have served in the Falklands War, Northern Ireland and the First Gulf War;
- Claimed service in Forces/ Special Boat Service;
- Having been awarded the Distinguished Service Order, Military Cross and Bar, and
- Giving the impression he was a helicopter pilot at the same time Prince Andrew was present.
- was on the IRA death list;
- had a degree of medical experience or background,
- played guitar on the British folk circuit;
- claimed to have been a member of the Royal Society in the United Kingdom;
- a member of he British Olympic bobsled team;
- the captain of the Royal Navy Swimming Team;
- Represented England in the 1990 Commonwealth Games swimming team;
- was a member of the Welsh Rugby team that played against the All Blacks.
- hold an honorary PhD in Astronomy from Cambridge
- a Masters degree in aerospace and astrophysics from Cranfield and Cambridge;
- have been a university lecturer, professor and doctor.
- To have served in MI5 and MI6 or at the Home Office.
- to have designed the guidance system for the Polaris missile.
What I find most amusing is the claims to have been a champion bob-sleigher, swimmer and rugby player. How many people really do become champions in three very different sports like that?
I can’t find the full report online anywhere, but blame seems to lie with both the NZ Defence Force and Momentum. Amazingly his actual CV turned out to be correct – he just lied about everything else verbally. The failing was not talking to all his referees it seems.
Related posts:
- The Wilce Inquiry Report
- A further inquiry re Wilce is needed
- SIS failed with Wilce clearance
- Inquiry into Wilce hiring
October 28th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
Legend. If that is what he served up in an interview imagine how fun it would be to go on the piss with this bloke as he lets rip with how he put away Princess Diana and Claudia Shaefer in a threesome.
Hilarious.
Vote:October 28th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
DPF, isn’t Momentum chaired by Jenny Shipley and isn’t their top recruiter Michelle Boag? I guess you just can’t trust Tories to get anything right?
[DPF: Michelle was not employed by Momentum at the time, so nice smear attempt. And yes Dame Jenny chairs the board and she is as culpable for the mistake of an individual staff member as the PM is responsible for the mistakes of a govt employee - the PM at the time being Helen]
Vote:October 28th, 2010 at 4:54 pm
So, what’s his next job, spokesman for the MEAA?
Vote:October 28th, 2010 at 4:55 pm
Pfft, that’s nothing. I flew dam-busters during the Vietnam war.
Vote:October 28th, 2010 at 4:57 pm
You think he’s a fantasist? He’s an amateur compared to the Global Warming Crowd with their tales of Global Meltdown
Vote:October 28th, 2010 at 5:13 pm
DPF, isn’t Momentum chaired by Jenny Shipley and isn’t their top recruiter Michelle Boag? I guess you just can’t trust Tories to get anything right?
And wasn’t Helen Clark the Minister in charge or the SIS at the time his employment was engaged?
Oh that’s right, its not the SIS’s fault once you realized it happened during Clark’s tenure…
Vote:October 28th, 2010 at 5:15 pm
Pfft, that’s nothing. I flew dam-busters during the Vietnam war.
I call bullshit – I never saw you on the plane…
Saw some snakes but.
Vote:October 28th, 2010 at 5:21 pm
And you trust these guys to run education, health, defence, and provide public services? Total, utter incompetence.
Vote:October 28th, 2010 at 5:38 pm
Having read the outlandish – even ridiculous – ‘claims’ made by Steven Wilce and listed at the head of this post my first thought was: ‘This guy’s just a Pommy practical joker from way back who has been ‘having a laugh’ at the expense of all those sober-sided Kiwi citizens gullible enough to believe his crap!’
IOW: Wake up Kiwis – he’s just a kidder!
But, having been a resident of this fair land myself for the last 36 years, the Kiwi-ism that I have absorbed instead prompts me to display the same fulminating outrage as everyone else about this affront and to demand that ol’ Wilce be taken out and shot at dawn.
Take your pick!! (I still think anybody who actually believed him must be a sandwich short of picnic, though!)!
Vote:October 28th, 2010 at 5:40 pm
DPF, nice try, but they handed over huge bundles of taxpayers’ money for Momentum to check and verify the CV. They failed, utterly. Like I said, you can’t trust Tories to get anything right. Maybe big Jenny should pay the money back? Or would that be taking accountability too far?
[DPF: Momentum should pay the money back I agree. Your attempts to make this a partisan issue are pathetic and trolling]
Vote:October 28th, 2010 at 5:44 pm
Tom Gould,
The recruiters don’t hire the individual – the employer does. Perhaps they should have asked some more probing questions of Wilce themselves. Or is this yet another example of a Labour govt outsourcing responsibility for anything negative?
Vote:October 28th, 2010 at 5:45 pm
“like I said, you can’t trust Tories to get anything right.”
That statement is evidence you cannot get anything right. Neither Boag or Shipley are Tories. I only wish they were. We might be a lot further down the road to getting you ugly parasitical tyrannical scum out of our lives.
Vote:October 28th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
Maybe big Jenny should pay the money back?
So, you have gone from Homophobia to making fun on Matt Mccarten for his disability, and now your at calling someone fat…
Wow, witness the inclusiveness of the Left…
Vote:October 28th, 2010 at 5:56 pm
Think of the poor applicant who missed out because of that guy’s bs and the head hunter’s incompetence. The ‘also ran’ applicants spend time on CV’s and covering letter, having to take time off work to deal with some jumped up arrogant so and so at the head hunters office, then is doomed by the antics of a fraudulent applicant.
Then to make matters worse, they then become a bain in the backside to their staff, but spend all the time licking the boss’s boots, until it is time to move on and pull another fast one across a prospective employer.
The head hunters are supposed to hire the best applicant but as far as I can see hire the best bull artist.
The Government should blacklist Momentum for a year. And job applicants should tell the prospecive employer (if known) they do not want anything to do with that firm.
Vote:October 28th, 2010 at 5:58 pm
Ever noticed how, once you reduce the discussion of a particular situation, event or object down to generalisations of “the left this…” / “the right that…” you actually get nowhere?
Vote:October 28th, 2010 at 6:03 pm
Sorry RRM, I do forget that their are a few decent lefties remaining. Tom is just giving you all a bad name….
And Christina Hendricks does have a decent rack! You got something against large breasted women?
Vote:October 28th, 2010 at 6:04 pm
As much as possible, yes I do.
Vote:October 28th, 2010 at 6:13 pm
As much as possible, yes I do.
Well leave those large breasted women alone. What have they ever done to you?
A lot of them cannot help it, although some admittedly have helped it – heh heh.
Vote:October 28th, 2010 at 6:16 pm
Useless tosser, hasn’t milked a cow.
Vote:October 28th, 2010 at 6:23 pm
Peterwn is on the right track. Recruitment agencies have sunk into the same ethical lows as real estate companies. They used to be the agent of the employer, charged with getting the best person. Then they became the agent of the applixant – these days they have “their” pool of applicants who they seek to place. And from there, a short step to becoming an agent of themselves – which candidate, if appointed, will bring the agency the most business in the future. Borderline corruption; government agencies shouldn’t go near them.
Vote:October 28th, 2010 at 6:28 pm
“Sorry RRM, I do forget that their are a few decent lefties remaining.”
Yeah RRM is one of those 99% who give all the other leftists a bad name.
Vote:October 28th, 2010 at 7:16 pm
“…ol’ Wilce be taken out and shot at dawn”
Well good luck cause Wilce would probably act like a one-man Korean Bodyguard Unit and take out the entire firing squad, kick the assembled dignitaries in the balls and run away swerving like Lomu did in SA, occasionally lobbing the odd grenade into the pursuing vehicles.
Vote:October 28th, 2010 at 8:56 pm
“a member of he British Olympic bobsled team;”
Shit o dear how could the bloody recruiters have missed an obvious clue like that?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpdg5XOZZDY
We all know that it was the Jamaican Olympic Bobsleigh team that covered themselves with glory.
Vote:October 28th, 2010 at 9:06 pm
My experience of employment agencies has been universally negative. Though of course that’s just me.
Vote:October 28th, 2010 at 10:50 pm
Tom Gould (141) Says:
October 28th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
DPF, isn’t Momentum chaired by Jenny Shipley and isn’t their top recruiter Michelle Boag? I guess you just can’t trust Tories to get anything right?
And then Gould got owned by Farrar. Ha hahahahahahhahahahahahhaah
Vote:October 28th, 2010 at 10:59 pm
Naval swimming team and he was in the SBS. Now that would be an interesting concept.
I reckon he is a true superhuman. FFS why isn’t Walter been made to pay his salary back? How embarrassing for Herr Klark
Vote:October 29th, 2010 at 12:06 am
Shooting him wouldn’t go any good, he’s been instructed by Chuck Norris in how to catch a bullet with his teeth and spit it back at fatal velocity. Got gold for it at the commonwealth games.
Vote:October 29th, 2010 at 10:41 am
I think the claims that he was a guitar player on the British folk circuit and also on an IRA deathlist may be related.
Vote:October 29th, 2010 at 12:20 pm
You would have to be quite dysfunctional to pretend all these things, I wonder what the psychology behind this sort of lying would be? Did he lie because he his self evaluation was that he was a loser and no one would ever take him for who he was? And once he told one lie, did the positive results he felt led him to tell another lie and another until he had invented an overall story about himself bordering on the ridiculous? In a way I feel sorry for him, I imagine his day to day life must be quite sad.
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