Fenton v Leitch
September 30th, 2011 at 11:56 am by David FarrarAt Red Alert Darien Fenton blogs an apology to Sir Peter Leitch:
Peter’s a top bloke and he’s done a lot for Kiwi communities, and even though we might disagree on politics these days, I’ve still got a lot of respect for him.
So, Peter, if you are reading this, sorry about the comments.
Leitch has raised over a million dollars for charities.
We will be charitable and assume Darien’s apology was spontaneous and the timing at 10.43 pm was coincidence, not after she got phoned by the NZ Herald in relation to the story they were running today:
Sir Peter said from Melbourne yesterday that he did not know what to say when he heard what Ms Fenton had said about him.
“I honestly don’t know what to say, to be fair – and it’s not often that I’m lost for words. I don’t know what I’ve done wrong.
“I’m very disappointed and it’s just taken the wind out of my sails. I’m absolutely gutted by her comments.”
Sir Peter said he supported Helen Clark when Labour was in power and took her to Warriors matches.
“The National Party never complained that I supported Helen Clark,” he said.
“I’ve done nothing with John Key that I didn’t do with Helen Clark – I’ve been a little bit more vocal.”
Poor Sir Peter. He doesn’t realise that this makes him a class traitor. They don’t see it as supporting the PMs you like, they see it as betrayal.
In response to Ms Fenton’s claims that he was “sucking up to John Key big time”, he said: “I thought freedom of speech was one of the things people went to Gallipoli for. But obviously in her opinion, it’s not.”
Ouch. Of course that is not to say that free speech doesn’t have consequences, but advocating not to shop there because someone praised John Key is rather over the top. Phil Goff got it better:
Labour leader Phil Goff said today he did not agree with Ms Fenton’s comments about Sir Peter.
“I’m a real Warriors fan. I’ve been going to their matches for years and have caught up with the Mad Butcher many times. He is a great guy and a great ambassador for rugby league. He is absolutely entitled to express whatever opinion he likes. Go the Warriors against Manly.”
Much smarter.
UPDATE: Sir Peter reveals to Whale Oil how Fenton’s attack made him break down and cry, and how he spent all day cooking at David Lange’s funeral:
“I have been hurt immensely by her, last night I broke down and cried, I just feel stabbed in the back”. Sir Peter then went on to outline all the things he has been doing recently for Christchurch and the huge effort and toll that has taken on him. ” For her to attack me when I am trying my best for this country, well mate, I’m gutted.”
“The worst part in all this is in trying to attack me she has instead attacked 37 hard working, working class franchisees, she is taking the bread from their mouths” he said. “I sold the business 3 and half years ago and she didn’t even get that right”
“I though Labour was for the working class, after this I just don’t know”.
“But the thing that hurts the most is that I feel stabbed in the back. I gave free product and spent all day cooking at David Lange’s funeral, another working class hero, and this is what I get?”
And Whale concludes:
When I asked him some political questions he refused to answer them, he said “Mate, I don’t want to get political, I’ve never been political, I just want what is best for this great little country.”
Just as well for Labour there isn’t an election in 57 days or anything like that. Oh shit …..
Tags: Darien Fenton, Peter Leitch, Phil Goff
September 30th, 2011 at 12:03 pm
I guess this is the political equivalent of not messing about shooting ones self in ones foot but going straight for the head.
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 12:10 pm
I struggle to find anything about Darien Fenton that makes me want to even listen to her, let alone vote for her. A screechy, stupid, troughing, useless woman.
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 12:22 pm
How on earth did she think slagging off Peter Leitch was ever going to help her, or Labour?
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 12:22 pm
This is why I have no time for the left, they can’t contain their nastiness. The only reason that Darien fronted with an apology is that the MSM has got wind of it. Too little too late, another own goal by the party that just keeps giving.
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 12:24 pm
Who is Darien Fenton? If I passed her in the street, I would not recognise her. However by calling Peter Lietch a sycophant she outs herself of being an even worse Labour Sycophant.
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 12:26 pm
I note in the Herald article it says her Facebook profile has been shut down.
Does this mean the Captain of the Titanic has ordered one of his thicker crew members to stop steering for the pretty white things?
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 12:29 pm
I commentd on this thread and said:
“its a pity that you didnt come out and correct your Facebook post or say sorry before now. Instead you waited until it made the front page of the nzherald.co.nz
That made your apology look a little insincere – after all you did call him a sycophant. Im guessing you are more upset with all the votes you have lost over this. Shame on you.”
Despite this being true – and me using my real name and email Clare Curran deleted my post warned me and stated categorically that “That that was a lie”.
But its Curran who is telling lies – and I can prove it. Whale has the link to the post where she made the comment (indeed even the Herald mention it) – and I have screen shots of the post that I made – before Curran edited it and called me a liar.
So there you go – Curran is telling lies – and I can prove it.
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 12:30 pm
nzclassicalliberal – no she just deleted that post – what still has a copy tho’
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 12:30 pm
First sensible comment I’ve seen from Phil Goff in a while.
Go the Warriors!
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 12:34 pm
Kiss of death from Phil MM?
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 12:40 pm
Vile woman. Mad butcher should put her through the mincer and make hound logs out of her. Feed the guard dogs at Liarbore HQ.
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 12:41 pm
What on earth was up with Phil Goff???? Someone hide his stupid pills or something.
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 12:53 pm
It’s a very stiff and through-gritted-teeth kind of “apology” on red alert.
Anyone who needs a lesson from Phil Goff on the eloquent turn of phrase and sheer political nous probably needs to have the trainer wheels on for a bit longer…
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 12:54 pm
I grabbed a screenshot of Fenton’s comments before she sanitised her Facebook account. Download and share around:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/30697024/darienfenton-madbutcher.gif
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 12:59 pm
One of Labour’s most visible MPs – she’ll be back in Parliament on the list if Labour gets anything over 24% – attacks a working-class hero, a huge donor to charity, and NZ’s biggest league fan, in the week that an NZ team plays in the NRL Grand Final… for being a “sycophant” and “sucking up”. And Phil Goff’s reply when questioned about this is “Go the Warriors against Manly”?
There’s a sycophant in the room, yes, and I don’t think it’s Peter Leitch.
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 12:59 pm
I grabbed a ton of screenshots that prove Clare Curran is telling lies – and deliberately distorting this story.
Remember this when she wants open government and online submissions – she simply deletes and misrepresents them – I give for your reading enjoyment: Clare Curran, Liar: http://bit.ly/oXcHcd
(and yes Im willing to swear that they are unedited and true as to what was posted)
edit – feel free to post everywhere you may want
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 1:10 pm
Darien Fenton told the truth when she vented her spleen at what she perceived at class treachery from Sir Peter Leitch. She is typical leftie who holds the belief that the working classes should have an automatic allegiance to the Labour Party. This the same party that Damien O’Connor MP recently called a party of “self interested unionists and a gaggle of gays.”
Vote:She now trys to make an apology and trys to rewrite history by claiming that she never advocated a boycott of the stores that he no longer owns!!
The arrogance and sense of entitlement of the Left seems to know no bounds.
They deserve to be crushed in 8 weeks.
September 30th, 2011 at 1:13 pm
chris123 – that’s a bit sad, they don’t seem to operate well under pressure.
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 1:16 pm
Repost from GD:
Darien Fenton walks into a Mad Butcher’s shop. She spots Peter Leitch gettin’ his hands dirty with the workers, so she says, “Have you got pigs feet Butch?”
Peter says, “To be fair, yes I do, to be fair.”
So Darien says, “Well trot over and get me a pound o’ mince then, porky!”
To be fair, she did apologize.
I’d expect them to all join hands and sing Kumbaya, as Pig’s Anus Sausage @3.99 a kilo is a Labour voter’s staple.
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 1:35 pm
I can’t wait for Labour’s smear campaign against Sir Edmund Hillary. That class traitor, sucking up to the Queen. Order of the Garter? ORDER OF THE SYCOPHANT.
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 1:35 pm
“I’ve done nothing with John Key that I didn’t do with Helen Clark…”
Peter, the public don’t need to know what you did with Helen Clark. You’re both consenting adults – it’s your business.
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 1:38 pm
OH GOD ROSS!!!!!!
No one needed THAT image.
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 1:42 pm
Fenton is a very ugly person and the face of what is wrong with socialists. She and her Clark/Simpson ilk have done more to destroy a lot of what is good in New Zealand.
However long may she continue to show us what not to vote for.
Goff is an innefective sad and a weak leader. He obviously cannot control such stupid vitriol.
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 1:46 pm
post of the day … ross 1.35
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 1:47 pm
That is a great update! If that is how Labour makes its traditional supporters feel, then I can only imagine the “treatment” they have in mind for people like me. It is just as well they don’t know where I live.
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 1:51 pm
I know that it was first said in jest, but I’m really starting to think that someone has infiltrated Labour in order to destroy their campaign. And they’ve done a fantastic job!
The collective incompetence within Labour knows no bounds – if a business unit behaved like them, they would’ve been sacked long ago. In fact, Labour is currently bankrupt – no fresh ideas / no ‘product’ or ‘service’ to sell / no personnel / no credibility and clearly diminishing support. This latest attack on their constituent vote has plunged them to a new nadir.
The party that was in government just three years ago is nothing more than a total clusterfuck.
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 2:00 pm
Third party status is on the way Labour. Coming ready or not. None of you should be surprised at socialists behaving as they do.
cheers
David Prosser
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 2:07 pm
Was the phrase Hater and Wrecker coined with Fenton in mind?
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 2:09 pm
Grizz
“If I passed her in the street, I would not recognise her”
Now you can – Whaleoil has an up to date photo posted. Be warned, its not for the squeamish.
Nice timing all of this – on the day we get a credit downgrade. Thanks Dazza
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 2:21 pm
The scales begin to fall from the eyes of yet another believer. I don’t imagine Peter ever was that interested in the fate of working class heroes at the hands of politburo elites and their ever-present Yagodas’, but he might now appreciate the history.
By contrast look at how another set of the handmaidens of the left are dealing with a complete and total asshole who is not a class traitor – Omar Hamed. Just read the comments: earnest and well meaning efforts to engage with a person who is clearly a misogynistic, sexual abuser of the first order, appeals to anyone who cares about you to seek help, and so forth. The whole ethos perhaps best summed up by this response to a suggestion that they just call the cops:
Of course not, but Omar still is fighting for social justice and an end to capitalism – so he can be treated with strong compassion whereas anybody else who acted the same way (especially a business building butcher) would be subject to volcanic evisceration. Imagine their reaction to the claims of – say the Roman Catholic church – that sex abusing priests were being treated with compassion and their sins being confronted, with expressions of contrition at the end being deemed sufficient.
Another in the endless history lesson of the different treatments meted out to class warriors and class traitors.
No, this is the equivalent of using a giant machine press to insert the same, small piece of pointed lead into the cranium one poll at a time.
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 2:21 pm
So Fenton’s not a pin-up model. Neither is the Mad Butcher. Neither, for that matter, am I.
I don’t care one whit what she looks like. I care about the nature of her character and her principles as a Member of Parliament. And those sure look ugly.
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 2:26 pm
Don’t suppose good ol’ trustworthy Pete, in his role as former owner and current marketing guru for the Mad Butcher Chain might have switched loyalty because 55% of his potential customers are National supporters?
Might explain Darien’s chagrin and cynicism.
Nah. Not good old trustworthy, naive working class Pete.
Wonder if this wee spat has made a difference to sausage turnover……reckon he might have topped JK for NZ’s ‘most favoured babysitter’
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 2:27 pm
I bet the mad bitch wouldn’t boycott the Mad Smack Dealer just because he votes “Tory”
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 2:34 pm
The mad butcher has done so much for New Zealand during his life time, it amazes me that any politician could be critical of him.
Nothing surprises me with Labour these days.
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 2:40 pm
The most astonishing thing is that she apologised to him . . . . on Red Alert.
Vote:“So, Peter, if you are reading this, sorry about the comments.”
Yeah something tells me that Sir Peter Leitch is going to join the vast majority of New Zealanders in never ever reading anything in that little echo chamber of hate.
It makes you wonder whether the aim was to get right with the nation or the party — the problem Labour has is that they place the interests of the party above the interests of the nation, and the nation knows it.
September 30th, 2011 at 2:44 pm
This is a gold medal Rolls Royce clusterf**k for Labour – the Mad Butcher gutted and having a cry, his scathing attack on Fenton’s put down of the “working class” heroes who bought the MB franchises, his tireless efforts to help in Christchurch – this stuff is worth -2% in the polls it is that bad. The word of mouth on the streets of Otahuhu and Mangere from the Labour heartland who see Leitch as a classic kiwi rags to riches hero will do real damage. Manning the Lange funeral BBQ was the glorious final nail.
Goff’s comments shows he actually has good instincts – they’ve been squashed and supressef by having a party and caucus dominated by the “gaggle of gays and trade unionists.
Epic fail!!
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 2:51 pm
Good point Marty, it doesn’t look like an apology to Sir Peter at all, it looks like she’s been told to apologise and is being seen to “apologise” amongst her own and that’s all.
It’s significant that even on Red Alert she is being mostly criticised, still.
If ever I wonder if I could measure up in parliament I think of the Darien Fenton’s and am confident “much better than that”. I saw her speak just after the VSM bill completed the other night, there was nothing clever or useful at all in what she said, it was all snide negative attempts at put downs. The saddest thing is that she seems to think she is doing what her colleagues want her to do.
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 2:53 pm
Fentons a stupid bitch just like all the other stupid bitches in the Socialist party. None have any class. Just a bunch of sad losers all of them.
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 2:59 pm
Fentons a graduate from the KGB school of charm and deportment
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 3:00 pm
Darien Fenton is the poster-child for everything that’s wrong with MMP. In the 2008 election she stood against John Key in Helensville. Key got 26,771 votes to Fenton’s total of 6,224; a majority to Key of 20,547, the biggest in the country. Labour didn’t fare much better in the party vote either; they got 6,826 votes. Ms Fenton got 16.78% of the electorate votes cast, and Labour got 18.3% of the party vote, but she was returned to office.
This year, Darien Fenton is at #18 on Labour’s list, so she will be almost certainly returned to Parliament instead of back to her job with the Service and Food Workers’ Union. And sadly, there is nothing that those of us who do not party vote Labour can do about it.
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 3:21 pm
Yuck! just had a squiz at the Fenton Woman over at Whale’s place – god she’s fruggly!
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 3:24 pm
I am pleased I gave WhaleOil the heads up when I saw this on Facebook. Whale was quick and grabbed the screen image and did the posting of course. At the time I could not believe it, and I think Darien did regret it – but she also continued to dig herself deeper.
But what was also an interesting insight was that there were plenty of Labour / Leftist scum pretty happy to get in and agree with her.
I also sent messages to Trevor, Clare, David C, and Phil Goff advising them to give Darien a slap-down. That obviously did not happen either.
Nasty politics is the way of the left. Darien and others have shown that negative politics is the the only way they know. It is Clark Politics 101
Still we all have Darien to thank for the wonderful rendition of the Gambler from the 2008 Labour conference and that will be one of the lasting memories of her.
All need to be evicted
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 4:02 pm
From KB a few days ago
The latest Fairfax poll is out and details here. I’ve done an analysis at curiablog.
According to my time and size weighted average of the public polls, the seat allocation would be National 69, Labour 34 and Greens 12.
For National this would mean everyone on the list up to and including Denise Krum would get in.
For Labour it would mean everyone up to and including Carol Beaumont would get in. Andrew Little would be the only new List MP, and Davis, Sepuloni, Barker, Nash and Chadwick would miss out.
For the Greens they get everyone up to and including Holly Walker
So Labour approx 24% and no Darien Fenton
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1104/S00194/labour-party-list-2011.htm
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 4:04 pm
Darien has now revealed her true colours.
Vote:Too late to back pedal now babe. your nasty personality has set your party back big time.
No question of resignation. Snout in trough, very hard to remove.
Labour rate her 33 from the top in all they have.
In all the land there are only 32 persons with more to contibute in Labours scheme of things.
Is there any such thing as a cured smack addict ?
i blame Terry Clark.
September 30th, 2011 at 4:05 pm
If 75% of voters prefer the Mad Butcher over Darien Fenton then she will be gone.
Vote:this is the shame of MMP that such hateful people have to be rejected not by 50% but by 75%.
September 30th, 2011 at 4:17 pm
Megatron,
True. But isn’t the word fuggly.
Captain Jack could be responsible.
i realise these are nasty comments but she asked for it.
Vote:Suck it up Darien.
September 30th, 2011 at 4:31 pm
Fenton is still angry at John Key as he kicked her a** in the 2008 victory in the Helensville seat. Fenton lost by about 20 000 votes, a record in any electorate.
Vote:Watch Fenton in Parliament and you see the re-run of class warfare that I thought had disappeared. People today are not like that – maybe during the Great Depression of the 30′s. People get along with people unless they are so immature they fight wars that are long gone. Most people have friends on both sides of the political debate.
Carol Beaumont,another ex-unionist probably believes that kind of stuff but has enough brains and integrity to desist from this pathetic behaviour. She can even raise a laugh on both sides of the house.
Labour needs to lighten up and start preparing for setbacks galore. Better get plenty of valium out for November 26 !!!
September 30th, 2011 at 4:47 pm
Neil. She is angry alright.
But she is close to the very best Labour has.
Google, “Darien Fenton drugs” to see just how good she is.
It’s called hubris Darien.
Vote:Sow and you will reap.
September 30th, 2011 at 5:27 pm
This leftie is right with you lot on this issue. Labour in 2011 has been embarrassing to watch.
The ineptitude. The shocking foot-in-mouth episodes. The never-worked-a-day-in-their-lives disconnect with the real world. The sense that the peasants/workers should damn well get in line and support us if they know what’s good for them, and more fool them any that don’t.
This episode has got to be some kind of final nail in the coffin. To attack Peter Leitch, after all the good work hes done, just because he’s hung out a bit with the National Party Prime Minister of NZ and he doesn’t see the evil they keep insisting he represents. And then to grudgingly pretend to apologise while not really understanding why there’s a fuss in the first place.
Just idiots. This leftie looks forward to their destruction at the election…
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 5:40 pm
Can someone use the screen shots to show darien is being a tad unlikely when she says she didn’t call for a boycott? I read it on facebook. That is what she was saying. What else would ‘I have a choice too’ imply? then you had other labour people commenting saying ‘yes I agree I will never shop from any of those stores again either’. The timing of the apology seems a tad suspect given her hatred of apologies.
Scott Chris, how is that relevant? Is Mr Leitch not allowed to have a point of view of his own? does it seem he is justified in being polite to National given Darien and your own reactions?
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 5:42 pm
My last word on Darien.
Anyone with any experience of smack addicts will know that if they are not endowed
with a gigantic bank account, they will be the most manipulative, conniving, thieving,
stealing, blackmailing, drug dealing rip off scum on the face of the earth in order to score their shit.
Even if they start with the huge bank account they soon revert to type.
Maybe Darien is different.
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 5:53 pm
Okay so in the Herald article she says “I have never ever called for a boycott, that is simply not true”. What she commented on her facebook was “…he’s gone way out on a limb. It’s about consumer choice. I choose not to buy stuff from those who support Tories”. So its true, she didn’t call for a general boycott, but she is saying she personally is boycotting him because he expressed some support for John Key, notwithstanding his services to labour and NZ. This is as ratty as it comes.
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 6:32 pm
Darien has another crack at it:
I don’t know if the Mad Butcher does pies and I’m still not sure if Darien does humble.
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 7:38 pm
http://www.investigatemagazine.com/tgif29aug08.pdf
Two for the price of one. Not about the addiction ,good on her if shes cleaned up , but who she was hanging around with. People voted for this line up FFS.
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 8:04 pm
i bet the Labour list candidates who rank below Darien are behind her and supporting their better in this “stuff up”
Vote:as she calls it.
September 30th, 2011 at 8:10 pm
Hey Pete, 6.32
It’s not crack, its smack.
Doubtless Darien will go on to a long selfless career of service to New Zealand.
ps hope you read my apology to you last week.
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 8:27 pm
Darien Fenton was anything but apologetic and repentant when she got on my case on Twitter on Tuesday after I had blogged about her SMOG (Social Media Own Goal). Among other things I was a liar, and I had defamed her by making reference to the SFWU’s generosity to the Labour Party in 2005. I guess that she only realized the scale of the shit-storm she had created when the Herald came a-calling yesterday.
Vote:September 30th, 2011 at 8:36 pm
Revealing – I’d heard of Darien Fenton but always assumed “she” was a bloke. We live and learn.
“In the heat of the moment” is an acceptable excuse from some people in some circumstances. But not from an MP who is assumed, by virtue of being a politician, to be a professional communicator.
Vote: