Puerile attempt at blame game backfires on Labour
February 15th, 2011 at 7:00 am by David FarrarMany will have seen the story about how two victims of sex abuse were named on a Ministry of Justice website.
Simon Power announced there would be an independent review to find out how this happened.
Rather than wait for anything resmebling a fact, Labour MP Carmel Sepuloni announced she had worked out who was to blame – the National Government of course.
The breach of name suppression of two sex abuse victims by the Ministry of Justice is a mistake that should never have happened and is another example of the National Government’s failure to protect the rights of victims.
Simon Power says he will be asking questions of the officials tomorrow morning to ascertain how this mistake occurred, when really he should be pointing the finger at himself and his Government. The slash and burn cuts that the National Government have continued to make across the public sector, are inevitably going to result in mistakes being made. The funding cuts to resources and jobs across the sector – equate to, additional pressure being placed on those still working there – leaving them stretched beyond the limit.
Rather sad that two victims of sexual abuse have had their identies revealed, and that Labour merely sees this as an opportunity to smear National and continue their ideological arguments that the public sector should be immune from the impact of a recession.
So was it some over-worked staffer in the Ministry of Justice who made an error, and ignored the Judge’s supression order? Is Carmel’s smear attack justified?
Well this later story reports:
The Chief High Court Judge, Justice Helen Winkelmann, says the court failed to note suppression rules on a judgement which led to the publication of the names of two sexual abuse victims on the Ministry of Justice website.
Justice Winkelmann, in a statement this evening following her inquiries, said it was an error and she very much regretted it had happened.
I’m amazed Labour have not yet found a way to blame the Canterbury Earthquake on public sector staff cuts.
Tags: carmel sepuloni, Labour, name suppression
February 15th, 2011 at 7:26 am
Yep, the Septic Camel truly is a nasty piece of work.
Vote:February 15th, 2011 at 7:46 am
And as a result of Justice Winkelman’s investigation, we can of course expect a full and sincere apology from Ms Sepuloni can’t we? A statement that she ‘jumped the gun’ and got it wrong.
Oh, but of course we can’t – Ms Sepuloni is Labour and a Socialist and they NEVER admit that they make mistakes (Helun taught them well)
Ah well, it was a nice thought – that HONESTY might have actually made a (very) fleeting appearance amongst the Reds . . .
Leopards, spots, and all that.
Vote:February 15th, 2011 at 7:53 am
Carmel is a nasty piece of work. She is tribal Labour but without any intelligence that a couple of her colleagues have. She has been well and truly slam dunked in the comments that follow and deservedly so. So where is her update to apologise for getting it wrong?
Carmel – your posts are nasty and puerile – better to write nothing at all if that is the best dribble you can come up with. It is people like yourself in Labour that are responsible for your miserable polling.
Vote:February 15th, 2011 at 8:26 am
Yes, but National does have prior form in breaching the privacy of citizens, vis-à-vis Paula Bennett’s “implied consent” hoo-ha.
Vote:February 15th, 2011 at 8:46 am
As always labour party members could be replaced by shit slinging monkeys and the only difference would be an improvement in their manners.
Vote:February 15th, 2011 at 8:53 am
Everything that Labour got wrong under Klark’s cruel Jack Boot Regime was National’s fault because they didn’t win the elections!!
Vote:February 15th, 2011 at 9:01 am
Thats not that far away from being true except that i blame the New Zealand public for tis own stupidity Guy.
Vote:February 15th, 2011 at 9:12 am
So these sexual abuse victims have been victimised again, by Sepuloni for political purposes.
Vote:February 15th, 2011 at 9:14 am
the link to the labour blog appears to be down? database error?
i had never heard of this lady before. she has a degree and a post gra diploma.. impressive… in teaching of course lol
Vote:February 15th, 2011 at 9:15 am
Original post has been removed, still in Google cache of course.
Vote:February 15th, 2011 at 9:16 am
Carmel Who?
Vote:February 15th, 2011 at 10:45 am
I thought it was widely accepted that John Key’s cuts to the numbers of public servants directly lead to the Hindenburg disaster, the sinking of the Titanic and the great flood of Genesis (think Noah’s ark for you heathens.)
Vote:February 15th, 2011 at 11:43 am
oh boy – gotta love its reply:
“Oh right wingers. The day I apologise to the National Government or any of its members, will be the day that the National Government publically apologise to us for falsely accusing the former Labour Governement of causing the first recession in this country, rising unemployment, rising debt and the second recession….ain’t gonna happen eh:)”
Classy.
Its right up there with Fentons “its not me who’s disgusting – its National and all that support them”
Vote:February 15th, 2011 at 11:44 am
Carmel has given a full apology at Red Alert. Well, not quite an apology; she’s actually dug a deeper hole for herself. Her arrogance is breathtaking.
Vote:February 15th, 2011 at 11:50 am
Little wonder that she’s all-but last on Labour’s list …
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