Comments on: The hit squad

By: Viking2

Viking2 — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 05:58:57 +0000

Yep, can’t you just imagine Trev with his robe climbing over the bench to take a poke at Tau or some other unsuspecting MP who transgressed Trevs rules and wouldn’t sit down.
Make for hillarious Parliamentary TV.
Be a bit like some of the scenes we see form other parliaments.

Preview to the Next Speaker.
The Honerable Trev From Wainui. ( P.S. not a mistook either)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/feb/14/georgian-mps-fight-tv-video

By: stigie

stigie — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:54:28 +0000

@ Elaycee
Trevor might make a good speaker,

he was a teacher by the way. Bwahahahaaaaaa !!

By: sparky

sparky — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 23:55:45 +0000

Elaycee (3,321) Says:
February 26th, 2013 at 12:35 pm
Trevor Mallard as Speaker?

How right you are. He would be like a Ring Master of the Circus.

By: Elaycee

Elaycee — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 23:35:55 +0000

Trevor Mallard as Speaker?

Bwahahahaaaaaaa… that’s a good one.

He would make Margaret Wilson’s tenure as Speaker, be remembered as a Parliamentary highlight!

By: tvb

tvb — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 23:00:15 +0000

Mallard aspires to be Speaker. Being part of the dirt squad will make that appointment highly controversial. I assume Mallard will stay away from Winston the Greens Mana the Maori Party Peter Dunne. Everyone except Banks and National.

By: tvb

tvb — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:56:55 +0000

Labour’s dirt squad. The involvement of Goff indicates what a nasty piece of work he really is. They will know what buttons to press and how to do it.

By: greenjacket

greenjacket — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:21:50 +0000

“I see Shearer as a modern Richard Nixon, with Mallard leading his group of plumbers.”
Nixon was capable, ruthless, politically adept, and capable of communicating in English. Shearer is not.

By: krazykiwi

krazykiwi — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:21:38 +0000

Behind them, keeping them honest...

LOL. Politicians rank as some of the most dishonest professionals according to Roy Morgan, Gallop, and just about every other survey on the subject. Far from 'keeping them honest', Goff and Mallard's roles will be to use their seasoned expertise of clever dishonesty to hide the rank-amateur dishonesty of the rest.

By: RRM

RRM — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:01:04 +0000

She doesn’t really have Helen Clark’s good looks either…

By: sparky

sparky — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:00:14 +0000

Jacinda Ardern is being groomed to be the next Helen Clark.

LOL, she is as thick as two short planks.

By: marcw

marcw — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:59:23 +0000

Has Lianne Dalziel given Shearer some inside info on her plans for the future. Interesting that she is not even named as Earthquake Recovery spokesman – the position is vacant. Given that even Len Brown or Adolf Hitler could stand against Parker for Mayor in Christchurch later this year, and win by a landslide, has she maybe had second thoughts (or always had them) about the Mayoralty. Considering the calibre of the women named in the shadow yesterday, she really is head and shoulders above them all in terms of ability. Or just a thought, maybe the UN beckons yet again… yes Aunty.

By: La Grand Fromage

La Grand Fromage — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:58:28 +0000

The best thing Labour could do now is turn their guns on the Greens. It may sound counter intuitive but it much easier to make Shearer look like a real leader when putting the boot into those drips (who have yet to really face any real fisticuffs) than into Key.

Also by poking holes in Green policy there is the chance that Labour might get credited with having some common sense.

They don’t have to worry too much about this Lefty coalition rubbish as there is a solid 6% total retardo’s who will always vote Green and Labour might mop up the other losers, plus a bunch from the centre who might have been scared of the influence a strong Green party would have in a potential Government.

The Greens also have nowhere else to go in terms of coalition partners so they would have to just suck it up.

If Labour don’t make Russel and Fatso public enemy number one, then they are missing a trick.

By: dime

dime — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:44:18 +0000

“Jacinda Ardern is being groomed to be the next Helen Clark of Labour party folks. So don’t make fun of her.”

yep and its hilarious to watch. what labour dont realise is there is just nothing there.

By: hinamanu

hinamanu — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:25:16 +0000

“They successfully destroyed David Cunliffe’s career through background briefings to media, so if they can manage that with one of their own colleagues they might be able to do it with other MPs!”

That’s a conspiracy Mr Farrar

Can’t be true.

Of course the oil companies conspire to keep us all dependent on oil but that would be a conspiracy too

By: sparky

sparky — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:54:27 +0000

The Labour Party couldn’t get any worse with the mud raking. It is time they stopped the childish crap, and got on with telling the public what they would do IF they ever became Government, and tell us HOW they would pay for all there hypothetical, policies. The yap, but don’t give any details. The biggest reshuffle demotion should of been Shearer, they have the brightest man on the Back Bench. Talk about pathetic.
PS: Annette King was absolutely hopeless when she held the Health Portfolio back in 1999 to 2005, and what a mess it was. I remember that well, as I was receiving treatment for Cancer, at the time.

By: Sir Cullen's Sidekick

Sir Cullen's Sidekick — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:48:10 +0000

Jacinda Ardern is being groomed to be the next Helen Clark of Labour party folks. So don’t make fun of her.

By: barry

barry — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:47:15 +0000

Oh Paulus – how mean of you to get soooo excited over things like “The Olde Yeller” (King) and the bucktoothed one….

Brilliant.

By: RRM

RRM — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:40:49 +0000

More H-Fee revelations anyone?

Richard Worth anyone?

Muck raking is pretty sad politics, but as Francis Urquhart said; in order for muck raking to occur, there needs to be muck to rake…

By: PTM

PTM — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:40:34 +0000

Not sure if anyone noticed during question time last week but it is evident that our “grossly overated buck teeth teenager” to quote Paulus, has been undergoing workplace training in how to look and project anger to the point where attack has been turned into pure comedy.
Her trainers need to get her to throttle back on the anger part and focus on research and convincing delivery. I hope she gets more questions this week to increase the entertainment value of question time.

By: Ross12

Ross12 — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:37:54 +0000

With comments like this from Small ( you can almost see him salivating and dribbling over his keyboard )
“with extra research and media resources to dig and dish the dirt.” is it any wonder the general public have a dim via of politicians and Parliament in general.