Darien Fenton

Oh dear. “Hundreds of Protestors”

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Not thousands……hundreds.

Spies forwarded footage and Police reports of just 300 people tired old hacks marching.

This matches Labour stooge Arena Williams’ glowing report via twitter. Wow 300 people!!  This woman is apparently a future Labour super-star.

We know the numbers were that light because The Standard started the excuses early on.  They ran a mile from the debacle and silly comments from Ms Williams.  Old heads like Lynn Prentice know this was a cluster fuck of the highest order for the left.

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Labour’s noddies have again shown themselves to be complete tools.

In a desperate attempt to be seen to be meeting people, Noddies 1, 2 & 3 decided to pop into Paremoremo prison to visit serial prisoner Arthur Taylor.

Kris Fa’afoi couldn’t find the time to go to the Police College for a graduation, preferring to have a BBQ with David Shearer, and bnow his priorities are to support criminals having a fag.

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Three senior Labour MPs are sucking up to a career criminal. Yesterday they went to Paremoremo to visit Arthur Taylor to support his attempts to remove the smoking ban in prisons.

Three Labour MPs have met career criminal Arthur Taylor to discuss his court battle to overturn a prison smoking ban.

Justice spokesman Andrew Little, police and corrections spokesman Kris Faafoi and Darien Fenton, who holds the shadow labour portfolio, visited Paremoremo jail yesterday.

Taylor, 56, has racked up more than 130 convictions, including armed robbery, kidnapping and escaping from prison.

Mr Little said the MPs agreed to visit to discuss Taylor’s legal bid to reverse the smoking ban at the prison.

Judith Collins slammed them with a good set of sledges.  Read more »

A Chinese migrant is making waves with his ideas about the stupidity of the minimum wage.

Expect howls of outrage from labour, especially Darien Fenton over this story.

A Chinese immigrant is campaigning to have fellow migrants paid below the minimum wage.

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The New Zealand Government’s immigration requirements are flawed because they allow migrants without valuable skills to move to New Zealand, [Easter] Wu said.

And if a migrant does not have the skills to get a job paying at least the minimum wage, they should be happy receiving payment that reflects their competency.

“How much you are worth is how much you get. You got an $8 skill, I pay you $8,” he said.  Read more »

Fortunately for New Zealand opposition MP’s they’re not the only ones that say dumb shit on social media. This will come as a great relief to Trevor Mallard, Asenati Lole-Taylor and Darien Fenton. Here’s a collection from the internet:

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Chris Trotter has named names in a column in The Taranaki Daily News, and it is brutal:

I’m told there were six of them, and that they hunted as a pack. Their prey?

Delegates who had voted the wrong way.

Moving through the excited crowds at the Ellerslie Conference Centre last November, an angry group of Labour MPs was seen taking dissidents aside and telling them, in no uncertain terms, which way was up.

Leading the pack was Labour’s employment relations spokeswoman, Darien Fenton, and her grim lieutenant, Dunedin South MP Clare Curran.

No surprises there. Ms Fenton and Ms Curran were among the caucus members most alarmed by the Labour Party rank-and-files’ sudden outbreak of democratic distemper. The other members of the pack, however, came as a surprise.

I had never thought of Jacinda Ardern, Megan Woods, Kris Faafoi or Phil Twyford as attack dogs, but my sources assure me that they were there – chewing people out. So what?

Such brutal vignettes are the stock-and-trade of party conferences. Certainly “The Pack” was far from being the only example of caucus aggression at the Ellerslie conference.

Fairly specific details…but there is more:  Read more »

Yesterday I blogged about deadbeat degrees and the deadbeat jobs you get as a result…turns out that a “incomplete” BA gets you a job as an MP.

But it was pointed out to me today that you’d have to be a little desperate to claim a failed BA as a qualification … in fact I wasn’t aware the university would hand out an incomplete BA as a qualification.

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I’ve been thinking a fair bit about David Shearer’s leadership.

To my mind he is doomed. The much heralded and signalled…well required…leadership vote was held and afterwards Labour rather embarrassingly announced that David Shearer was endorsed as leader in a ballot that had only one candidate by “an overwhelming margin“.

That got me thinking and it got me scratching around my Labour sources…that didn’t sound right…”an overwhelming margin”…what does that even mean?

Then I was emailed by a reader who heard Katie Bradford-Crozier talking to Justin duFresne this morning on NewstalkZB. She said that int he leadership vote there were 10 abstentions.

This confirms what I have heard too from my Labour sources. Ten abstentions.  Read more »

The Labour party has said that they would repeal the Hobbit law…a law that looks set to  encourage Arnold Schwarzenegger to make the sequel to Conan the Barbarian in New Zealand.

Are Labour people of their word? Will they match their rhetoric with action?

A Labour-led government would change the law around film workers, even if it meant losing the The Hobbitfilms overseas, as part of a major policy release around employment relations.

The Work and Wages policy, released yesterday, has at its centrepiece the establishment of an independent Workplace Commission to set minimum standards of pay, conditions and union rights across industries such as security workers, supermarket workers or retail workers.

The standards would apply as statutory minimums, but individual contracts would be exempt and the commission would have the power to exclude small businesses.  Read more »

Comrade Kate is facing increased pressure to do a proper resignation, from all her positions:

Praise for Kate Wilkinson’s decision to quit as labour minister over the Pike River disaster has quickly turned sour, with pressure building on her to resign from the Cabinet altogether.

Within minutes of the publication of findings by a royal commission that the Labour Department contributed to the deaths of 29 miners by not closing down unsafe operations at Pike River, the MP for Waimakariri fell on her sword.

After initial admiration from West Coast-based Opposition MPs, questions were raised yesterday about why she remained in the Cabinet on a $250,000-plus salary.

Before publishing the commission’s report, the Government spent six days trawling through paperwork before Prime Minister John Key announced that none of Ms Wilkinson’s “actions or inactions” made her “culpable”.

But yesterday Labour’s industrial relations spokeswoman, Darien Fenton, called for her to step down from her remaining portfolios which include conservation.

Asked yesterday if she was going to resign from the Cabinet, an emotional Ms Wilkinson replied: “What else have I . . . what have I done wrong?”

Well there is quite long list on that…especially in Conservation, but that is for another day.

The problem Labour has in pushing for her total resignation (hey are bitter that she stole their thunder) is twofold. First, if she had to quit all posts then there really is no real reason to stick around and so would probably throw her toys and quit parliament altogether forcing a by-election which National would lose, thus ending the government. Second, the focus would then also be drawn to forcing Labour’s responsible former ministers to likewise quit.

Fortunately for Kate Wilkinson she has the double insulation of those reasons protecting her from too much pressure.