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Samuels sticks up for besmirched former foe – Former Labour Party minister Dover Samuels has stuck up for Richard Worth, saying he had advised him to “hold his head high and walk back into that Parliament”. Mr Samuels was the first minister disciplined under Helen Clark’s… [NZ Herald Politics]

Dover Samuels has stuck up for Richard Worth, now there is a reccommendation I’d rather not have. Being supported by another doddery old rooter with a weak bladder!

According to National Party sources, Neelam Choudary, has approached numerous National MP’s with camera in hand asking to have a photo taken with them and unprompted made light of her Labour party affiliation and said “but we are all friends around here”.

There are unconfirmed reports that she also made specific requests of National MPs an introduction to John Key, non of these requests for introduction have been as explicit as Phil Goff’s request, on her behalf, for a meeting with the most popular Prime Minister in living history.

Further Whaleoil can now reveal that Neelam Choudary has been an integral part of the Daivid Shearer campaign in Mt Albert. She is credited with running the “Get out the Vote” for the Indian community.

Exhibit A:

Masquerading as an ordinary Mt Albert voter from “Manukau”, she had this comment on the Mt Albert by-election.

The Waterview Motorway and Super City issues will play a vital role in the by- election. A number of Mt Albert residents are unhappy with the government’s decision to construct a combined surface tunnel through the communities to save cost.

Labour is in a strong position to retain the Mt Albert seat.

Besides, this constituency has had the benefit of strong and able representation by former prime minister Helen Clark. It is vital that the constituents bring a strong candidate who will represent them best in parliament. Labour’s David Shearer has the potential to be a good lawmaker and has experience with people.

FYI Phil Goff, a Zardozi is not a see through garment, it is an embroidery technique common in Indian fashion. More on Phil goff’s dishonesty later.

Brian Rudman: Old goats need a swift kick – The God’s gift to women delusion is hardly a rare phenomenon in parliamentary or legal circles. They’re both trades that attract those with the messianic gene. What is disillusioning is that more than a century after Kate Sheppard… [NZ Herald Politics]

Cloth cap socialist Brian Rudman agrees with Cactus Kate and with Chris Trotter.

The God’s gift to women delusion is hardly a rare phenomenon in parliamentary or legal circles. They’re both trades that attract those with the messianic gene. What is disillusioning is that more than a century after Kate Sheppard and her fellow suffragettes won for women the right to vote, and half a century after the radical feminists strutted their stuff, mature women continue to be strung along by these randy old goats.

It seems the left are growing some balls with the exception of Phil Goff who is still trying to milk the salacious stories of Richard Worth’s sex life slowly.

In actual fact the way Phil Goff is milking this it is almost as thogh he is taking a long slow wank.

I digress. Back to Rudman’s article. I think he smells a rat.

According to Mr Goff, the woman says Dr Worth met her and offered her a job as an ethnic affairs adviser. After that meeting he called her again and offered her a job as a member of the Lottery Grants Board, but told her she would have to leave the Labour Party and join National.

To me, it’s puzzling why a loyal Labour Party member would be engaging in such discussions so soon after an election anyway.

Yes very puzzling, and Rudman also lets slip that this woman is no mere Labour Party “member” either, she has in fact tried to get selected as a candidate for Labour at the least election.Hmmmm… a bit of digging is required here. Very curious.

As for the mystery business woman, she has now complained to the police about a sexual encounter that occurred when Dr Worth spent the night in her hotel room – arranged by Dr Worth – during a trip to Wellington.

In both cases, why didn’t they give him a swift kick in the goolies, or in the case of the serial texting, send a copy of the messages to his wife – or to the press? We love to spring to the aid of fair damsels.

When the story first erupted, it sounded like another chapter of the television series, Boston Legal. I waited for Dr Worth to plead Denny Crane’s defence of “mad cow disease” which is how the William Shatner character tries to excuse his outrageously politically incorrect overtures.

And I waited, also in vain, for the women to stand up for themselves, as they do on Boston Legal, belittling Crane, treating him as a figure of fun, or threatening to sue.

Both actions seem so much more effective than the weeping and wailing we’re now getting in the real-life drama.

Heh, very hard to not agree with Brian on this. In fact Rudman should have gone further and asked why it is that Phil Goff let Richard Worth contiue to pester this woman, where was his protection of her? The Phil Goff managed allegations have all the hallmarks of a honey pot trap even though Richard Worth was not exactly a difficult target with his constant philandering with any woman of colour under the age of 60 that showed a spark of life.

Finally Rudman has a word for Key and a hint for the Party hierachy that echos my call yesterday.

As for Prime Minister John Key, having sacked Dr Worth from his ministerial team for undisclosed reasons, why didn’t he rapidly walk away from the whole affair? For nearly a week now he’s been batting around questions about whether or not Dr Worth should be expelled from the party, removed from the party list for the next election and so forth.

Why is he continuing to remain embroiled in the issue? Labour leader Helen Clark was smart enough, when she was Prime Minister, to leave that sort of dirty business to the party organisation. That’s why you have a party machine in moments like this – to keep the prime minister’s hands clean and to take the issue off the boil.

After the Dover Samuels sacking, at about the same stage into Ms Clark’s prime ministership that Mr Key is now at, she tossed that whole mess across to party president Mike Williams to sort out. She went back to more lofty topics. After a day or two, the pursuing media sleuths tired of the takeaway pies and retreated back home and the immediate furore died down. It’s a lesson Mr Key might want to follow.

Well, quite.

Labour are desperate to win in Mt Albert and the TV One poll hs thrown them. They are now faced with an uphill battle to motivate the troops this week after a poll that suggested that they didn’t have to do any more to win. That leaves the prospect of a lower turnout than expected because some supporters may well not bother because they think that David Shearer will win hands down. If that coincides with appalling weather and Green voters switching back to Greens because they think Shearer is safe then it could be all on for the weekend.

Meanwhile Labour’s spending continues unabated. Not only have they promised over $3 billion of taxpayers money for a tunnel that they can’t afford nor deliver, they have also spent up large on the campaign directly.

I have taken the liberty of estimating conservatively how much has been spent by Labour of their own money but more importantly how much of taxpayers money they have spent to ensure victory in Mt Albert.

As you can see this is quite some amount and far in excess of the $50,000 allowed under the law. The interesting amounts are the costs paid for by the Manukau City Council (more on this later), EPMU and Parliamentary Services.

Labour has literally thrown their caucus at this campaign.  Even Russell Brown has inadvertantly shopped out of town Labour MP’s canvassing the electorate.

They knocked on doors too. The weekend before last, I came out my front door to find Labour MPs Grant Robertson and Maryan Street visiting every house in my street. That’s old-fashioned campaigning of the kind that is possible in an electorate race, where you actually stand a chance of making direct contact with a significant proportion of voters

It is very difficult to see quite what was so important for an MP from Wellington Central and a List MP from Nelson had yo do in Mt Albert that they also had time to go door knocking. 

Not only that we know for sure that Darren Hughes from Otaki, Trevor Mallard from Wainuiomata and Taupo, Annette King from Wellington, Parekura Horomia from Gisborneand other out of town Labour MP’s have traipsed the streets in support of David Shearer the candidate from Amman, Jordan.

Even most of the Young Labour tossers who were campaigning on Sunday outside the National Party function were from Wellington.

Labour quite simply is spending huge amounts to ensure they win. David Shearer had better come in more than 5000 in front of Melissa Lee or else it may well be seen as a moral loss let alone a financial loss. I wonder if they will fight as hard for Horomia’s seat when he chucks it in shortly.

Remember when Labour Party activist Rochelle Rees denied that she was involved with the Labour Party, when she tried her petty google-bomb on John Key?

Auckland computer programmer Rochelle Rees told the Herald on Sunday she emailed friends a year ago, asking them to put links on their websites to Key’s site with the word “clueless” as the link text.

“More than anything, it’s fun,” said Rees, who said she was interested in politics but not affiliated to any party.

Not only that DPF found out that despite her assurances she was not affliated to any party she was in fact on the Young Labour Executive.

Now it turns out she’s had yet another conversion-of-faith. She’s got posting rights on David Shearer’s campaign website.

These people just keep re-appearing despite all their obfuscations continually working for the Labour Party. Does the Labour party not have enough activists of their own that they have to rely on workers from other parties and those who “are interested in politics but not affliated with any party”?

The Budget has been received well with a slight blip in support for National while Phil Goff’s floundering labour party and their goofynomics alternative have suffered yet another slide in popularity. The latest Roy Morgan poll is out and it isn’t good reading for Labour or for the prospects of the pro tem leader Phil Goff.

They are getting closer and closer to falling under 30%. Note to Gary Morgan please stop showing NZ First, they are no longer in parliament and are therefore irrelevant.

In early June support for John Key’s Coalition Government is 57.5% (up 0.5%) comprising National Party support 52% (unchanged), Maori Party 3% (up 0.5%), ACT NZ 2% (unchanged), and United Future 0.5% (unchanged) according to the Roy Morgan New Zealand Poll conducted May 4-17, 2009.

Support for Opposition parties is 42.5% (down 0.5%) – Labour Party support is 31% (down 0.5%), Greens 8.5% (down 1%), NZ First 1.5% (up 0.5%), Progressive Party 0.5% (unchanged) and Others 1% (up 0.5%).

I call time of death on The Progressives.

In Mt Albert it has been observed on numerous occasions that David “Blackwater” Shearers media minder is John pagani, former loyal lieutenant to Jim Anderton.

Spotted today sporting a fetching Labour party rosette was Matt Robson who is/was number 2 on the Progressives list.

I think that The Speaker, The Hon. Dr. Lockwood Smith needs to look at the funding of Jim Anderton as “party leader”.

I’d like to thank Matt Robson and John Pagani for proving in Mt Albert that the progressives have ceased to exist and that now we can have a fiscal saving in cutting the “leaders” budget of Jim Anderton. They have finally achieved something afer all these years.

Perhaps Jim could now confirm the rumours that he is flagging it all away.

The Labour Party clearly hasn’t learned anything from the election. They treat the electorate with complete contempt.

Check out this latest “joke” they have posted on Red Alert, the Labour MP’s blog.

Yes that is two top Labour MP’s from WELLINGTON campaigning in Auckland, in Mt Albert. Labour has so few people on the ground they are now flying in at considerable expense to the taxpayer senior MP’s to stuff letterboxes and have gay little sniggers at sign placement.

If I had my way their erstwhile leader and deputy would be before fraud investigators for painter-gate, the pledge card and the PREFU lies. Annette king the architect of the Electoral Finance Act thinks it is funny laughing about fraud but then what would a fat arsed failed Dental Nurse know about anything, she thinks crime increases when it is hot and there is a full moon.

I think the media should be asking who exactly is paying for these Wellington MP’s to be having their little snigger, it bet it is at the taxpayers expense.

This is a public service post.

Have you seen this man? At least I think it is a man.

A man described as glowing un-naturally orange and with a strange grin permenetly affixed to his face, of medium height and known to lurk in Wellington has just been moved on from the gates of a Girls School in Mt Albert. He is not known to have ever shaved either.

He was seen clutching brochures from the Labour Party though is unlikely to be a member otherwise he would have been seen hanging around the men toilets or outside a boys school. Nevertheless he scuttled off when confronted.

Have you seen this man?

On another note, just who is paying for these Wellington based MP’s to be walking the streets of Mt Albert?

The Labour Party is struggling in Mt Albert. There loyal members cultivated over the years by having the Prime Minister as their MP have abandoned them.

At their campaign rally today they had just 40 people in attendance and over half of them were MP’s.

Now we know why they had to abandon their filibuster after Trevor Mallard told us all they could go on for weeks. They all had to rush to Auckland on the taxpayers ticket to make up the numbers at the campaign rally for their soldier of fortune candidate David “Blackwater” Shearer.

One thing is certain though. Trevor Mallard through his bully boy misogyny has ensured that every one knows the name of Melissa Lee and no one knows who their parachute candidate is.