Budget Sledge of the Day
After David Shearer’s lacklustre speech, filled with flubs, false starts and bombed lines it was the turn of John Key..and he let rip.
But the best sledge in his speech was this one:
John Key
Green Taliban on Convention Centre
And the Greens are out in front of David Shearer already promising to renege on the Convention Centre deal. Labour will follow.
This would leave ratepayers and taxpayers paying for the centre, and the compensation. The Greens/Labour are opposed to all investment, except if it involves them spending taxpayer money.
Unbelievable.
Party Co-leader Metiria Turei says extending SkyCity’s operating license to 2018 is unconstitutional and a breach of Parliamentary sovereignty
“As a result we are calling John Key and SkyCity on their bluff. We can and we will legislate to repeal this dirty deal and we won’t be threatened by John Key or SkyCity with this contract.” Read more »
An Aussie perspective on NZ
The left wing here likes to bag New Zealand, but how do the Aussies see us…well, a little differently than you would imagine.
Larry Pickering makes some astute observations as Australia heads into election season.
New Zealand was on the brink of recession prior to the Conservative government of John Key taking the reins in 2008. This small economy of 4.4 million people is now preparing for a series of record surpluses… and without the help of a mining industry.
Helen Clarke’s [sic] Labour Government left the country facing severe recession with a bloated Public Service sector and disastrous losses due to her takeover of the NZ rail system.
Abbott could do worse than take a look across the Tasman when attempting to repair the damage left by the union government of Julia Gillard and the incompetency of Kevin Rudd.
Are unions really the problem? They seem to be in Australia, having never really really dealt with them like we did in the 90s. Read more »
Tagged: Australia • Helen Clark • John Key • Julia Gillard • Kevin Rudd • Larry Pickering • New Zealand • Wayne Swan
Job Done – Gilmore’s gone
It looks like the back-room boys have done their work after the call went out mid-week that the board wasn’t getting anywhere.
Some calls have been made, some stern words been had, and Aaron Gilmore is gone. Job done.
Disgraced National List MP Aaron Gilmore has announced he will resign from Parliament.
“It is with a heavy heart and great sadness that I announce my intention to resign from Parliament,” Mr Gilmore said in a statement.
“After taking counsel from colleagues and family in recent days, I have decided that to stay on in Parliament would only serve to cause my loved ones more upset, and cause me undeserved further stress.”
Mr Gilmore said media scrutiny in recent days since reports of his night out in Hanmer Springs where he was abusive to a waiter had “put me and those who are important to me under immense pressure with an attempt to discredit me”.
“I have made mistakes. I am human. But the attacks on my integrity have started taking a toll on those around me and this is unfair on them.”
Mr Gilmore said he’d advised the National Party’s whips of his decision.
“I also want to make clear my support for the National Party and Prime Minister John Key remains unwavering.”
Questions now need to be asked about some key members of the board and their performance over the past few weeks, notably Peter Goodfellow and Roger Bridge.
A couple of phone calls and the knifing was done…that is how it should be done not endless conference calls with yelling and finger-pointing.
Remembering what your mother taught you #FAIL
Doesn’t look like the gene pool has flowed down when it comes to the Preston’s.
Remember just the other week struggling actress Chelsie Preston Crayford? No? Not surprising really.
Chelsie Preston Crayford was the tool that got her tax-payer funded film-maker mum Gaylene Preston mum to take a photo allowing her to mock John Key with a sign “I’m with stupid”.
The Gilmoron lies again, just go Aaron Gilmore, go. [VIDEO]
More damaging and threatening Aaron Gilmore emails have been released. Once again we see that Aaron Gilmore is extremely economical with the truth.
Embattled National list MP Aaron Gilmore was warned by a Government department over inappropriate emails.
The emails were not sexually explicit but had an “inappropriate tenor”, the Ministry Of Business Innovation and Employment said.
Gilmore was employed as a contractor for the the-then Department of Building and Housing from May to November last year. He was a senior policy analyst.
Gilmore’s contract was due to be extended to Christmas but Crisp said this did not happen “as a result of this behaviour”.
He rang the analyst to personally apologise.
Prime Minister John Key’s chief of staff Wayne Eagleson was told Gilmore’s contract would not be renewed because “there had been an issue” – but did not detail the complaint.
Those emails make this statement on TV last night a bit of a problem. Read more »
A letter to Aaron Gilmore
Ele Ludemann is a blogger and a long time servant of the National party. She is also a decent hard working person, one of the nicest people you could ever wish to meet.
She writes on her blog a letter to Aaron Gilmore. I suggest he reads it. I suggest he thinks long and hard about what it says and I suggest he quietly resigns before anymore damage is done to his already poor reputation, and especially his family. For her to write this letter shows how deeply angry and disappointed she is. Normally Ele would work quietly behind the scenes.
Dear Aaron,
If you were at the Mainland Conference in Hanmer to the end you’d have heard West Coast Tasman MP Chris Auckinvole’s final words.
You might remember him talking about the importance of the two wings of the party, the MPs and the volunteers, and the good that can be achieved when they’re working in unison.
That was before we knew you hadn’t been at the conference dinner as any MP who took his responsibility to the party seriously, and respected the volunteers, would have been. Read more »
Sick of Aaron Gilmore? How do you think he is feeling?
If there is one person in the country that would like to be someone else today, it would have to be Aaron Gilmore. I suspect he’s gotten very little sleep, unless he leaned on his friend Dionysus for support.
And to be honest, apart from upsetting all of your colleagues, the Prime Minister and the party leader, you really don’t want to make an enemy out of Batman.
