Is this why Trevor buys tickets for Homegrown?
February 20th, 2012 at 12:00 pm by David Farrar
I couldn’t work out why Trevor would regularly buy tickets for Homegrown. I did have suspicions he was in it for the profit. But this photo from the Dom Post suggests that possibly Trevor’s interest is not entirely financial 
February 20th, 2012 at 12:07 pm
Either the creepy uncle or the profiteering scalper. Neither is a good look and Shearer’s just letting him get away with it.
Sick.
Vote:February 20th, 2012 at 12:12 pm
Young girls are only a profit making opportunity for Mallard. They’re probably students, almost certainly not well off, and so why shouldn’t an old man on $170k a year sting them for their concert tickets? It’s what the 1% do to the 99%.
At least we’re not going to hear Labour banging on about grocery prices this year. There is no way they’d have the cheek to criticise a retailer adding their margin to milk in order to cover their real estate and staff costs, when Mallard can add $100 to a concert ticket in return for no effort or expense at all.
Vote:February 20th, 2012 at 12:13 pm
The girls mostly look like deranged harpies baying for blood
Vote:February 20th, 2012 at 12:22 pm
davidp
Well said….
But you need to remember – it’s different when Labour do it.
Vote:February 20th, 2012 at 12:27 pm
What are you trying to say, DPF? That these girls are hot?
Those girls look all of 15-16. Yellow arm bands at Homegrown meant you weren’t allowed to buy alcohol.
[DPF: I wasn't encouraging a literal interpretation. I was suggesting that the youthful crowds could be a factor in attendance]
Vote:February 20th, 2012 at 12:39 pm
He would be there looking for their Grandma’s, wouldn’t he? Wouldn’t he?
Vote:February 20th, 2012 at 12:55 pm
NEWSFLASH: POP CONCERTS ATTRACT SKIRT
You learn something every day huh?
Vote:February 20th, 2012 at 1:00 pm
For underage girls? Tasteless.
Vote:February 20th, 2012 at 1:02 pm
Regrettably I recognise a couple of the faces in the front row…
Who knew Trevor was after the Palmy girls? I thought he’d leave them to Iain.
Vote:February 20th, 2012 at 1:03 pm
Actually, the thug Mallard looks like a dirty old man.
Vote:February 20th, 2012 at 1:04 pm
Scott Chris:
The difference between David Farrar and Cameron Slater is that Whale Oil would just come out and say TREVOR MALLARD ONLY GOES TO HOMEGROWN TO PERV AT TEENAGE GIRLS
At least on Kiwiblog there is some attempt to phrase such cheap smears ever so slightly more delicately…
Vote:February 20th, 2012 at 1:04 pm
Yellow armbands means you can’t buy alcohol. So if you pull off the armband, you can buy alcohol? What genius dreamed up that plan?
Vote:February 20th, 2012 at 1:06 pm
That’s quite some “if”…
Vote:February 20th, 2012 at 1:15 pm
geez a couple of you wimps make it seem like perving at young chicks is a bad thing
Vote:February 20th, 2012 at 1:22 pm
PaulL
You get a diffirent coloured arm badn if you are over 18, retard.
Vote:February 20th, 2012 at 1:28 pm
There is a difference between admiring their youthful beauty and perving dime.
Vote:The bottle blond bottom left looks cute
But if “perving” at girls under the age of consent is your thing I suggest some form of counseling before a problem develops.
February 20th, 2012 at 1:32 pm
Immigant: I’d probably be a bit careful chucking around the retard word if I couldn’t even spell.
Vote:February 20th, 2012 at 1:44 pm
i said perving at young girls. to me 16 – 20 qualifies. they hardly look like they are 15 or under.
some of you need to lighten up with your faux outrage.
Vote:February 20th, 2012 at 1:54 pm
Gruff says:
‘The girls mostly look like deranged harpies baying for blood’
So Trevor would get along just fine. After all that is pretty much what most of the females in Labour are like.
Vote:February 20th, 2012 at 2:12 pm
Forget the girls you silly slavering blokes.
The point is we have a highyl paid Labour MP who thinks it is perfectly OK for him to profiteer off students, or anybody else, and do so on a regular basis.
Instead of the ‘ribbing’ one commentator suggested he deserved, surely this kind of behaviour shows up a new ethical low even for Labour.
It is usually the ignominious behaviour that brings people down and this reveals Trevor to be a hypocrite, and worse, a greedy one despite his lavish salary.
Am I the only one who thinks what he did is disgraceful?
Vote:February 20th, 2012 at 2:13 pm
thepolecat>Yellow arm bands at Homegrown meant you weren’t allowed to buy alcohol.
Mallard would be happy to buy them alcohol. With his 50% agent’s markup added.
Vote:February 20th, 2012 at 2:17 pm
beaB>Am I the only one who thinks what he did is disgraceful?
No, I’m with you. Labour used to look out for the less-well-off, not look for opportunities to profit from them. It’s the sort of “it’s legal” ethics that loan sharks use while they prey on the poor. It’s bad enough that Mallard does this and has shown no shame in his media appearances last week. But why hasn’t Shearer sacked him? Or at least said that profiting off students is unacceptable and that Mallard must refund the excess?
Vote:February 20th, 2012 at 2:21 pm
PaulL
Next time I’ll take more care with my typos when posting answers to retards.
Vote:February 20th, 2012 at 2:36 pm
I prefer middle-aged women…. 21, 22, 23
Vote:February 20th, 2012 at 2:49 pm
beab – im not sure its disgraceful. Definitely stupid though. If I was Shearer I would be thinking “do i really want a guy like this in charge of a portfolio?”
As a one off its hardly a sackable offence. But when you add up everything Mallard has bought to the table over the last few years i imagine its time to let him go.
He will be highly valuable in the private sector no doubt.
Vote:February 20th, 2012 at 4:27 pm
Strange system we have, the lasses cannot drink alcohol at those functions on their own if aged 16-18.
Vote:Yet they can happily bonk their brains out, yep strange.
February 20th, 2012 at 4:33 pm
grumpyoldhori: without them drinking alcohol, how do we have any chance of convincing them to bonk their brains out?
Vote:February 20th, 2012 at 4:37 pm
this may not be relevant, but I laughed. Gordon Ramsay gives some advice…
Vote:February 20th, 2012 at 4:45 pm
To quote Mr Jagger-
“I can see that you’re fifteen years old
No I don’t want your I.D.
You look so rest-less and you’re so far from home
But it’s no hanging matter
It’s no capital crime…”
Stray Cat Blues- The Rolling Stones 1968
Vote:February 20th, 2012 at 7:30 pm
Yellow armbands = not allowed to buy alcahol. Does not mean not allowed to drink alcahol.
Now Mr Mallard, why would you want to go to a place like this? Dirty pervert? Scalper? or just greedy?
I think your tickets were complimentary and you sold them as a fundraiser for the Labour Party Election Campain funding.
Vote:I may be wrong though
February 20th, 2012 at 7:38 pm
Well our HONOURABLE Mr Mallard has a great history of being committed to relationships,just ask his first wife and kids.
Vote:Wha t a fine , upstanding gentleman who makes laws and preaches from on high to set standards for our country and all who have the misfortune too suffer a cretin such as TWEVOR
February 20th, 2012 at 7:42 pm
Well, Trevor certainly brings the haters out doesn’t he?
Vote:February 20th, 2012 at 9:32 pm
The so called haters just get pissed off Mike.
Vote:Trevor will not admit mistakes, it is someone else’s problem not his.
Now you get up to the yard and sort those Matangis out ok
February 21st, 2012 at 8:28 am
jesus what a painful and vapid read. Most of the responses here are flut out embarrassing, left your game people
Vote:February 21st, 2012 at 9:11 am
An attempt to portray Mallard as a Pedo, sick gutter snipe sensationalism.
Hands out of your pants people, it was a music festival that he didnt go to.
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