Jordan Carter

A massive stoush has broken out over who said what and even who didn’t hear what over the homophobic name calling of Trevor Mallard.

David Farrar has been called a liar as has the Wellington Central Act candidate Stephen Whittington, by Jordan Carter and by Grant Robertson. Green MP Kevin Hague has backed up Farrar and Whittington.

In the debate Charles Chauvel has stated that he has never heard the “tinkerbell” insult and that if he had he would have said something. Well the man must have clothe ears.

In the video of the incident where Trevor Mallard clearly, both over the sound system and recorded in Hansard calls Chris Finlayson “Tinkerbell Charles Chauvel can be seen sitting there not more than 3 seats away from Trevor Mallard.

Charles Chauvel cannot claim not to have heard the insult. The video evidence suggest otherwise. It is looking more and more like it is Labour MPs and apologists who are the ones doing the lying. Here is another shot just after Mallard has been pulled up for his insult.

You really have to wonder why these MPs tell bald faced lies when the video evidence is available to all to prove their lies.

Clare Curran chats with herself, Trevor Mallard tells another lie and a Labour Candidate accuses Duck of being campaign manager.

General confusion reigns in the Labour party.

Focussing on things that matter.

The Herald editorial talks about the paucity of talent in Labour’s list:

The Labour Party has 43 seats in the present Parliament. If it wins at least that many at this year’s election it will bring in eight new names from the list it published on Sunday: Andrew Little, Deborah Mahuta-Coyle, Michael Wood, Kate Sutton, Jerome Mika, Josie Pagani, Lynette Stewart and Jordan Carter. If the party maintains its improvement in the latest poll – suggesting pressure on its leader over his handling of Darren Hughes has done Phil Goff and his party no harm – Labour can look forward to many more than 43 MPs.

The names Christine Rose, Glenda Alexander, Susan Zhu, Rino Tirikatene, Sehai Orgad and Megan Woods could be in the House too. There are not many pale males among all those names. Party lists are intended to bring a better gender balance and more ethnic diversity into democratic representation. Labour’s makes a meal of it.

It has also learned from recent experience not to put old names low on its list where they could be next in line to replace any list MP who fails to serve a full term. There are no Judith Tizards in a position to return at the expense of fresh talent this time.

They also note the long term effects of the T-Bomb. There doesn’t appear to be any Tizards lurking down the list to embarrass them after the election.

But the downside of that lesson is that there are no new names high on the list. With few exceptions, sitting MPs occupy all the places down to number 35. Most of them are also standing in electorates, which means that if any are rejected by the voters they will return on the list. The real winners of any party’s list selection, in the public eye at least, are probably electorate MPs who want no place on it.

They go on to commend Lianne Dalziel as I have for her decision to abandon being ont eh List. She knows better than most that scum list MPs are hated.

The list system remains an unsatisfactory element of MMP to members and voters alike. The lists are drawn up by party panels out of the public eye. Electorate candidates are selected in similar secrecy, but at least those selected have to pass muster at public election meetings and voters have put a tick beside their names.

The list system is the single worst aspect about MMP and one of the reasons why it should be chucked aside.

This blog has a clear policy on gays, and gay issues. For those that do not remember, during the 2010 local body election it outlined the following position on Gay Marriage.

So before any intolerant fool on the left starts having a go at me for being a redneck or being anti gay please do your research and understand that I am not anti gay. I have made it clear I believe New Zealand could have a gay Prime Minister, and the gayness of someone like Grant Robertson or Charles Chauvel would not stop them from becoming PM, if they are good enough.

Likely they will get bashed for being out of touch, liberal elite wankers who want to waste taxpayers money on stuff like the NZSO, RNZB and Nikki Kaye’s gay mardi gras, but that doesn’t mean their homosexuality will stop them being Prime Minister.

What I do stand against is putting one class of citizen ahead of any other class of citizen because of their race, gender or sexuality.

So Gay New Zealand needs to consider if it would be acceptable to welcome ”white straight males” getting a promotion on the Labour list. It appears they don’t.

“Maryan Street is in seventh position, two higher than her place heading into the 2008 election, in a list that has seen significant changes at the top in the past three years. Phil Goff, Annette King, David Cunliffe, Parekura Horomia and Street are the only two MPs ranked in the top ten who were in the top ten before the last election.

Charles Chauvel has made his way from 27th place to 11th place in a solid three years in Parliament, while Grant Robertson has soared from 46th spot to 14th.

Incredibly gay-friendly Auckland Central candidate Jacinda Ardern is another first term MP who has clearly impressed, moving to 13th place from 20th, while another very gay-friendly colleague Kate Sutton has climbed to 35th from 63rd.

Gay candidate Jordan Carter is in 40th place, a good jump from his ranking of 70th in 2008.”

Labour will continue to struggle in the polls until it realises factional promotions of people based on identity issues pisses off the majority of New Zealanders. Labour should select on merit, not sexuality.

Cactus Kate has done a massive public service and nominated Lisa Lewis for the Veuve Clicquot Business Woman of the year award.

To my mind Lisa Lewis is a real contender rather than the usual set of patsy contestants.

As Cactus says;

Lisa Lewis a true New Zealand entrepreneurial online pioneer of a profession pre-dating that of Madame Clicquot herself.

Lisa can now add “Nominee for Veuve Clicquot Business Woman of the Year 2010″ to her extensive CV. Best of luck Lisa and I trust your adoring public will get in behind you to sway the judges of your mass appeal in not just positively promoting yourself through this event but the event itself with such a high profile figure nominated.

The Application is here in full with the reasons Lisa is deserving to win the award under the strict set criteria and was submitted to organisers last night with the names of two professional referees.

Accordingly a Facebook Group to support Lisa has been set up and you can read her nomination details here.

The old saying in gambling is to not bet against the house and a quick check around the Aussie betting establishment confirms that you’ll do your dough if you back Labour.

Centrebet

National $1.30

Labour $3.00

Sportingbet.com.au

National $1.38

Labour $3.00

Sports Bet

National $1.50

Labour $2.50

DPF has already noted the growing overseas exodus of Labour MPs and my sources now inform me that Pamela Mills – pamziewamzie of Red Confectionery fame – an unreconstructed Clarkist, has jumped to ditch to take up a position within the NSW public service. Even the lefties have had enough of Clark’s low wage, low growth record in Government.

[quote]George Galloway: A hundred thousand or more of the Iraqi patients have died. Sectarianism and extremism, fundamentalism, is now rampant in Iraq. The entire Muslim world has been radicalized. There are flames spreading throughout the Muslim world. They are even reverberating outside the Muslim world, in Europe, including in the capital city of London, where I sit.
Now even amongst the crazed Zionist Crusader fundamentalists who got us into this war, Richard Perle is an extremist. In fact, most of the neo-con Zionists who talked Bush into this war have now begun to admit that this has been a terrible catastrophic mistake. Unfortunately, it is not their blood, which has been shed. It has been the blood of entirely innocent people, whose lives have been destroyed.So nobody serious, outside the lunatic asylum of Richard Perle’s circle, any longer believes that the invasion of an Arab Muslim country by hundreds of thousands of Crusading soldiers has done anything to make the world a more peaceful place.
And that’s why Bush, in November, will pay a very high political price, and Mr. Blair will be out within a few weeks. I assure you, anyone who studies the politics in London knows that Mr. Blair is in his last days in Downing Street. And when they come to write his obituary – the word Iraq will be engraved at its heart.[/quote]