Gareth Hughes needs to take lesson in social media from Judith Collins.
As a well-travelled Green MP who is resides in Wellington, you would think that he would be alert to his carbon footprint and the evils of climate change by swimming then walking to Christchurch.
24 hours after protesting against NZ’s fourth largest export worth $2bn each year, oil, you think he would be careful about travel and the stench of hypocrisy. Read more »
Cactus Kate writes about the pay equity battle and new evidence that women are letting their own side down.
She is at her cutting best:
Finally a decent piece on how professional women shirk their responsibilities in the workforce.
Find it hard to get a medical appointment? Especially in a tax payer funded area of medicine. Yes, well this has been building for years. A bit like female legal partners who only work three days a week. Who wants to employ someone who will not answer your emergency call on a Wednesday? I want to know what they do for those two days off. Play golf? Do their husband’s laundry? Read more »
Fran O’Sullivan outlines her thoughts on the Green/Labour power sabotage:
It’s blatantly obvious that Labour and the Greens have been attempting to short the returns the National-led Government expects to receive through next week’s Mighty River Power float.
Yup, and the gloating of the likes of Gareth Hughes in his now infamous Hey Clint moment was brutally apparent.
[T]ilting at the style of the political intervention and asking the two parties to withdraw their interventionist plan is a waste of space. Not because of their own rationale in doing so (this was soundly based). But because Labour leader David Shearer and Greens leader Russel Norman don’t give a damn about such requests at the midway point of the electoral cycle.
The 10 leading business lobbyists – including major leaders such as BusinessNZ’s Phil O’Reilly and the Chamber of Commerce’s Michael Barnett – who sent a public letter to Labour and the Greens this week – know this in their bones.
They know that the two parties are “not for turning” (at least in the short term). It makes political sense for the politicians to damn the power companies as rapacious commercial beasts, led by overpaid directors and chief executives who will suck all the spare cash out at consumers’ expense.
This tactic works well for Labour and the Greens with their own political power base. Their supporters hate fat cats. Demonising the power company bosses could rile them enough to ensure more of Labour’s and the Greens’ voting base actually turn up to cast a vote in 2014. Or so the hope goes. Read more »
After announcing their plans for economic sabotage masquerading as power policy, the beltway started chattering about how the supposed Green/Labour alternative can work together.
Don’t tell Shane Jones.
Just look at the body language of Shane Jones. He actually loathes the little Green twerp Gareth Hughes.
It will be interesting to see a Green/Labour government unfold, just for pure giggles.
The country might not like what they get though.
Patrick Gower explains why the 3News political team threw Gareth Hughes and Clinton Smith aka James Henderson aka Steve Pierson under the bus this week:
The “Hey Clint!” moment – where Gareth Hughes stops mid-interview and asks a spin doctor what to say – has generated a bit of chatter here and there.
Some people – including even colleagues here in the Press Gallery – have suggested it was wrong to run it, that it was a big call, or even that there were journalistic ethics at stake.
To be perfectly frank, I don’t think this was the ethical issue of the century, or the year, or the week.
Because screening it was the right thing to do. In fact, it was the only thing to do.
I cannot believe there are journalists out there who would think otherwise. Read more »
Gareth Hughes has been shown up as a glove puppet. Patrick Gower has really done a number on him and also on Clinton Smith.
Green Party energy spokesperson Gareth Hughes had to ask his spin doctor Clint Smith for some advice while the cameras were rolling.
Political reporter Tova O’Brien asked Hughes whether the party was “pleased” about their power policy damaging the Government’s asset sales program.
He started answering, stopped, and then looked behind the camera: ‘Hey Clint! Are we pleased?’
Clint responded: ‘Well, it’s not why we did the policy… we don’t want the assets sold” Read more »
Metiria Turei likes a bit of larping, living in a make-believe castle and playing ukelele in a band called ‘Kill Martha’.
Meanwhile, Green Energy spokesman Gareth Hughes spent his student allowance studying aliens and he ditched the ‘boring’ commerce papers…
Great Cabinet minister material in the Greens Labour Government. God help us.
The full interview is here.
