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Should be getting the third degree not a honorary degree

by Whaleoil on December 9, 2009

The University of Otago has done an outrageous and egregious thing. It has given Michael Cullen, the man who said “fuck it” to a Treasury official when asked if he should put the ACC exposure in the PREFU, an honorary Doctor of Laws.

“University Vice-Chancellor Professor David Skegg says that Dr Cullen’s honorary degree recognises his contributions as an Otago academic and as a respected and highly influential politician.”

What a disgrace, the guy should be serving time for breaking teh Fiscal Responsibility Act. Plus the prick lives in Napier Ohope, hardly an Otago academic anymore.

All Otago alumni should be called to cut donations and support immediately. I am sure there are many other good causes to give to rather than this school of felching sycophants.

The prick pretended to be a lawyer the whole time he was in parliament and was even the Attorney General for a time and now he’s getting a fake degree.

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  • http://intensedebate.com/people/apeteryx apeteryx

    Well, it's Dunedin politics. He was the local MP until MMP. Then gave his seat to a jobbing member of the teacher's union. South Dunedin is like Papatoetoe, one of those places where you can stand a border collie as your candidate and if it has a labour rosette, it will be elected.

    And many politicians and worthy people get them

  • petal

    Sickening.

  • Cadwallader

    This treacherous bastard isn't fit to scrub the dog-piss off the footpaths outside any reputable university! Otago Uni is a national disgrace by doing this!

  • Chris

    congratulations dr cullen. i can't think of a more worthy candidate than one of our best finance ministers. eat it wankers

  • MT_Tinman

    Doctor of Michael Laws?

  • Lucy

    Nothing suprises me anymore in this sick little country.

  • Rod

    Academic honours is one thing – they give those hon docs out to all ex pollies, don't they? – but the bloody NZ Institute of Management has him as the 2009 Designworks Visionary Leader!! Now that's downright weird.
    (NZ Management Journal, Dec 09)

  • jabba

    crazy giving that rich (is he happy being rich I wonder) prick anything .. we have 2 border collies and they are pretty smart in fact I thing he has one as well

  • anon

    Cant wait to piss on his grave

  • mediatart

    Ahh the Prefu. Yes the very inquiry set up by English found that Cullen wasnt responsible for the FU over the prefu. -

    How could he , it was written by treasury like all the rest of the bullshit they put out, but the Treasury Secretary offered his resignation… Well sort of he said we wont do it again… for 2 weeks.

    Meanwhile the baubles of office glittr for English, Hide and the usual bandits. The trips , the flowers, the cars

  • George Romero

    Ruddy little mahn.
    He is just a WALKING BAG OF PUSS as far as i'm concerned , ''hoek!'

  • John Boy

    Makes the study more worthwhile for those who had to earn it the hard way I guess.

  • John

    well done Mr Cullen. Well deserved.

  • jabba

    I think that Dr Cullen should be confirmed as a QC .. and I don't mean Queens Counsel