Goff just getting worse

First of all Phil Goff attacks John Key for not speaking te reo at the World Cup Opening Ceremony. For fucks sake, how politically correct can you get. I loved the ceremony and thought it was stunning and made me proud to be a Kiwi. But I think it is fair to say the Maori culture was not under-represented in the ceremony, so really why get obsessed over such tokenism over whether or not John Key said kia ora.

But I think Goff has managed to get even more stupid, with his claim that whomever was the Minister for bad manners has committed a sackable offence.

So according to Phil Goff, heckling the Australian rugby team is a sackable offence. Let’s contrast that to the list of what Phil Goff and Labour have said are not sackable offences, helpfully compiled by Whale Oil:

• Watch­ing porn on tax­pay­ers ticket
• Tiling your house with immi­grant labour
• Per­vert­ing the course of jus­tice and corruption
• Tak­ing home a drunk teenager who sub­se­quently runs naked from your house.
• Los­ing your lug­gage three times so you can get a new suit each time
• Tak­ing ille­gal dona­tions and lying about it
• Forg­ing paintings
• Speed­ing through the coun­try­side like an African dictator
• Buy­ing a set of golf clubs and a bike on the taxpayer
• For­get­ting you were briefed by the SIS and then lying about it
•  Steal­ing $840,000 from the tax­payer to fund your re-election campaign
• Con­tin­u­ally break­ing elec­toral law
• Claim­ing you had sold the sky­hawks when you had done no such thing
• Hid­ing ACC blowout from PREFU

There are probably many more than this that readers can add to that list.

Goff would do well to reflect that it is sometimes better to not comment on a story. The Minister for Bad Manners story was already getting massive media and blog coverage. He achieved nothing  by sticking in his 2c worth, except to make himself look stupid and hypocritical.

The same goes for the te reo story. How many votes does Goff thing he will win by whining that the PM didn’t speak in Maori. It just reinforces all the negative attributes the public sees in him.