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Whaleoil Awards – Worst List MP

by Whaleoil on December 30, 2011

So many to choose from. However the commenters were unequivocal. The nominees for the Whaleoil Awards – Worst List MP are:

Katrina Shanks – Dopey, and stood up and made one of the most embarrassing speeches ever seen in parliament on the so-called Skynet Bill, proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that her time is up. But for the vagaries of MMP, Katrina would be pursuing employment opportunities elsewhere.

Catherine Delahunty  - seriously doolally, deluded and hopeless. Plus she is a Green MP. One commenter, perhaps unfairly commented that she had been campaigning for Movember all year.

Darien Fenton – where to start, she epitomises nasty, single handedly derailed any traction Labour was making with the Rugby League crowd when she stupidly attacked the Mad Butcher for daring to voice an opinion. This clothe cap wearing hard left unionist is only in parliament because of the hold unions have over the Labour aprty and her high list ranking despite any redeeming features. Darien Fenton has already won the Worst Politician and the Worst SMOG, could she make the trifecta and take out this award too?

Sue Moroney – Another of Labour’s nasties. This woman is so unlikeable that every electorate she stands in results in her opponent winning and usually increasing their majority. This has become known as the Moroney Effect. National MPs keep their fingers crossed and a few pray that Labour will select Sue to stand against them.

Gareth Hughes – Green, an idiot, big mouth, and scare-monger. He was the one who claimed wrongly that the MV Rena had broken up and sunk and that Tauranga’s beaches would be closed for 20 years because of the oil spill. He stood in Ohariu and is Wellington based but racks up massive travel bills. He has taken to the trough better than most.

Worst List MP

  • Darien Fenton (53%, 459 Votes)
  • Gareth Hughes (20%, 169 Votes)
  • Sue Moroney (11%, 98 Votes)
  • Catherine Delahunty (10%, 85 Votes)
  • Katrina Shanks (6%, 50 Votes)

Total Voters: 858

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  • Guest

    Has to be Fenton. Shanks is a fool, but hardly “the worst” Your blurry photo of her is actually a good analogy of Shanks’ political career. Delahunty is a loon in a party of loons, so nothing truly special there. Moroney is pretty awful, but in a singular way. Her awfulness only negatively affects her. Gareth Hughes quote about 20 years of ecodisaster in Tauranga should be used against him as anti-tourism scaremongering, but again, not truly in the league of Fenton.

    Fenton, on the other hand, has a special quality of awfulness that has affected her colleagues, and unified the public against her. I look on her photo, and think that there is a woman who truly deserves her face – and believe you me, thats not a nice thing to say about a middle aged woman.

  • Bo Jangles

    All from the moist hippie mould, a good scrub-up with JIFF and they would evaporate

  • kevin

    What a sad sack bunch

  • Gazzaw

    This is the biggest challenge yet WO, this is surely an instance where FPP is not exactly the right system to use! I was very tempted to say Hughes but I was consistent and stuck with Fenton as she has absolutely no redeeming features whatsoever. A tough call. 

  • Gazzaw

    Isn’t it appalling that we collectively pay these five numpties $700k a year PLUS whatever else they can glean from the trough? I wonder what they would get on the open job market.

    • Anonymous

      In most cases, I’m guessing a welfare cheque.

      • Anonymous

        They are on a welfare cheque.

  • ConwayCaptain

    I beleive that Delahunty is known as “the member for Mars” in Parliament.

    When they do the select committee on changes to MMP I hope that the electorate gets some say over who is “on tye list” and we might get rid of these loons.

  • Scanner

    Jeez Whale, what a hard choice, the whole lot bundled together aren’t worth one pinch of goat shit.
    Perhaps we should bring in a system that MP’s especially the list are paid in accordance with their contribution to the taxpayer, this would put all this lot in the debit column, again we have MMP to thank for this gaggle of dunderheads.
    Outside that the clear winner must be “Smackhead Fenton” this dopey bitch only opens her vile mouth to change feet.

  • Anonymous

    Fenton: sung to the previous Mad Butchers add:
    “the mad bitch that everybody haaaaates”

  • YNFEM

    This is almost too hard to call! 

  • Kelvirsux

    Fenton by a mile – she is clearly suffering a mental illness that should warrant her immediate retirement on medical grounds from parliament – and as for her face – can someone slap a paper bag over that one before I throw up!

  • David

    What does this say about the push for more women MP’s?

    • Phronesis

      INDEED….

  • http://keepingstock.blogspot.com/ Inventory2

    Glad you’ve included Hughes WO, and he gets my vote. It was he who tried to make political capital out of the Rena stranding, bu suggesting that oil should have been being pumped on the day she stranded; clearly, that was never possible. And as I pointed out yesterday, he has taken to the trough like a fish to water; he rivals Kris Fa’afoi in the “I’ve been Everywhere” stakes, traversing the country at will during the election campaign and since. Goodness only knows what kind of carbon footprint he’s creating!

    And because he’s so young, there’s the prospect that he’ll have a nice little earner for even lo9nger than Phil Goff or Winston Peters, and you and I will bear the cost of it, and be unable to do anything about it because of MMP.

  • Beans

    Hughes is also the spokesman for libraries and archiving. At one point, he asked why documents aren’t presented in the House on CD instead of on paper as they are. Anyone with even a passing knowledge of IT, let alone archiving, knows about the problems of long-term data storage considering format obsolescence and wear and tear of discs. The Boy Hughes doesn’t seem to be able to exercise a small amount of logic and reason though.

    Total post turtle, along with every other Green Party MP brought into a cushy lifestyle by a threshold that’s too low.

    • MrV

      But he is still an expert on ship salvage though.

  • Anonymous

    How about we return being a politician to a performance of civic duty where the MP could pay say $50k pa for the honour of being in parliament and the cost thereof of running it? It should surely get rid of these useless no-hopers.