lies

Phil Goff decided to make this election campaign about lies. His definition of a lie is saying one thing earlier and then despite circumstances changing saying another thing later.

Back in April David Cunliffe says Labour has already got all their promises costed…he even says he has a spreadsheet prepared.

Full Audio Interview: Labour has already got all their promises costed

Fully Costed snip: Fully costed?

But yesterday Phil Goff said…

“We’re just completing them now as we’ve finalised the last of our policies.”

Was someone lying?

David Parker has put a weaselly explanation on Kiwiblog for his lies:

Garth McVicar has today (25 October) said that the Sensible Sentencing Trust has not made donations of money to any political party, including Act. It appears from his statement that the only gift the Trust itself made to Act was David Garrett. What donations, if any, came from members of the so-called Sensible Sentencing Trust to Mr Garrett or Act  I do not know.

Those are just weasel words, David Parker. That isn’t an unreserved apology and retraction. It is rude, condescending and still leaves his lies hanging out there.

Not good enough. I hope Garth McVicar sues his weaselly arse off.

Felix Marwick has reported that yet more evidence has emerged about Phil Goff’s role in the “gone by lunchtime” non-quote that he shopped tot he nedia against Don Brash.

Leaked US diplomatic cables are casting fresh doubt about the”gone by lunchtime” phrase famously attributed to Don Brash.

A cable written by former Ambassador Bill McCormick in November 2006 said Mr Goff had misquoted a MFAT staffer’s notes when he claimed the then leader of the National Party had promised the anti-nuclear policy would be gone by lunchtime if his party won the election.

Now another embassy cable, from 2004, backs up that assertion.

The summary of the meeting between US officials and Don Brash and Lockwood Smith says the Kiwi politicians did say the legislation had a negative impact on our defence forces.

But the cable says they also offered little hope the New Zealand public would be willing to see the legislation scrapped.

This is now the second Wikileaks cable that proves that Phil Goff either lied about the quote, or he either wilfully or carelessly misquoted Don Brash.

We really are getting a long term pattern of behaviour from Phil Goff now, where he says one thing, evidence then proves him wrong and he spins out of control covering up what he said before.

Phil Goff broke long­stand­ing for­eign diplo­macy con­ven­tions to smear the Leader of the Oppo­si­tion with ‘Gone By Lunchtime’. This smear was sub­se­quently proved to be a lie by the release of the Wik­ileaks doc­u­ments. Now it has been proved wrong again. He defended the breach at the time.

Phil Goff: “If an MFAT offi­cial released some­thing that they were not enti­tled to release, that would be against the inter­nal rules and pro­ce­dures. In these reports Dr Brash is not a young player, he’s 63 years old. He knows there’s an offi­cial record­ing of what he says. Maybe it was naivety on his part, but I’m afraid that when you indulge in that sort of deceit then you are likely to be caught out.“Q:Is this an exam­ple of one law for all?

Phil Goff: “If I’m caught out in any­thing I say that is not con­sis­tent then I should face the con­se­quences.”

Phil Goff should honor his own words. He has been caught out again, just like on the SIS briefing issue. He is constantly being caught out, he must face the consequences.

Since we are all experiencing a good dose of global warming it might be useful to look at the list of all the things that have been claimed by warmists as being the “first casualties” of “climate change”.

Tim Blair compiled the list.

And Gavin Atkins has checked the veracity of all these “first casualties”.

Here are some examples:

The claim:

Polar bears are set to become the first casualty of global warming.

The reality:

The total number of the world’s polar bear population is still thought to be between 20,000 and 25,000.

The claim:

Losing winter: as climate change takes hold, North America’s coldest season is the first casualty.

The reality:

North America has experienced some of its biggest snow seasons on record.

The claim:

First Casualty of Global Warming? Rare breed of possum may be extinct.

The reality:

Live possums were discovered four months later.

And every single claim by the warmists on the list is proven to be false.

Phil Goff has continued to lie about the SIS briefing he said he didn’t have that documents prove that he did.

Mr Goff has said the release was politically motivated and it was strange that the blogger got the documents before media which had also asked for them.

“I think the last thing you do is politicise (information releases) as the Beehive did over the incident last week.”

He suggested Slater was directed on what to ask.

“I am sure that Warren Tucker didn’t brief Cameron Slater on what he might ask for under the Official Information Act.”

Quite right, Warren Tucker didn’t brief me, but he did brief Phil Goff. Has Phil Goff thought, for just a moment, that the reason I got the documents first is because I asked for them first? Has Phil Goff thought, for just a moment, that I was treated worse by the SIS and waited longer than media outlets for their requests to be met in this instance? I asked on the 26 July and received the documents on the 4th of August. When did Fairfax put in their request? They got their request met the exact same day as me, did they get preferential treatment?

The fact that he sees conspiracies everywhere tells us more about how the Labour party used to run things than anything else.

Funnier still is Phil Goff trying to say that his leak of confidential documents is different from my OIA request.

Mr Goff today disagreed that was an example of similar politically motivated release of information.

“It wasn’t intelligence information, it was (exposing) a blatant example of hypocrisy where politicians were saying one thing to you in the media and to the public and saying the absolute opposite when they thought they weren’t being recorded.”

In that respect, and only slightly, is he right. He leaked the documents, I put in an OIA. He also lied about those documents he leaked and Wikileaks proved he lied about it. However it doesn’t stop Phil Goff from continuing the falsehood that Don Brash said something that was only ever a figment of Phil Goff’s imagination.

Phil Goff has a proven history of leaking, he has a proven history of lying and he just keeps on keeping the story alive. Phil Goff needs to accept he forgot about teh briefing, got it wrong, and was wrong to attack a senior civil servant. There was a point where I could accept that Phil Goff just forgot. That point passed when he insisted that he and he alone has things right.

But pause for a moment and think about what Phil Goff is suggesting. If he is right and he was never shown anything, or even briefed. remember his first contention was that he was never briefed, then he was briefed just a little bit. But think, about what Phil Goff is really suggesting.

He is suggesting that Warren Tucker has falsified documents, made up minutes for briefings that never occurred and lied about it all. That really is too unbelievable. The alternate is Phil Goff simply forgot about it, tried to make political capital, got sprung and then made some stuff up to cover for his faulty memory.

What is more believable? That the head of the SIS falsified documents and lied about meetings, or that Phil Goff forgot.

Labour continues to use taxpayer funds to lie to the population.

There “Not for Sale” flyers are still being distributed.

An astute reader noticed that the fifth bullet point says:

Peter Goodfellow sums up Winston Peters and his lies perfectly:

“This is the type of rubbish we’d expect from Winston. None of it’s true. It’s all part of his on-going campaign to make himself relevant.”

There may be some in National who leak to Labour but no one would leak to Winston Peters.

I have heard Winston repeat his lies about internal National polling data and I know them to be blatently false, like everything that ever utters from his mouth.

When New Zealand’s most corrupt politician, Winston Raymond Peters, 65, pensioner of St Marys Bay pays back the New Zealand taxpayer the $158,000 still outstanding then perhaps I will take the time to listen to his lies, for the truth and Winston are definitely strangers to each other.

The record for Philip Bruce Goff lying on foreign affairs issues is not good:

Kiwiblog: Goff exposed

First the SAS quote:

Goff told the General that he could expect a positive outcome on redeploying the PRT past Sept 2006 and was reasonably assured the SAS (Special Forces) would deploy again after regeneration.

And the Iraq quote:

Goff noted Senator McCain’s comment that New Zealand should think about replicating its success in Bamiyan by heading a PRT in Iraq.

The Minister said he told McCain that New Zealand was not averse to doing so once the security situation had stabilized.

If I was a Young Labour member who has stuck up posters about how Don Brash would send troops to Iraq, I’d be looking for a new party, or at least a new leader, about now.

and Fran O’Sullivan: WikiLeaks a quid pro quo for Phil Goff

He had no compunction using notes of a private meeting between former National leader Don Brash and a visiting United States delegation to claim New Zealand’s anti-nuclear policy “would be gone by lunchtime” under a National government.

The WikiLeaks documents have something to say on this score too.

Former United States ambassador Bill McCormick wrote in November 2006 that Goff had “misquoted” an Mfat staffer’s notes from the meeting to claim that Brash had promised the nuclear ban would be “gone by lunchtime”.

“Brash denied he intended to get rid of the ban without a referendum, but was unable to respond credibly when Labour said that must mean he was planning to scrap the legislation, which many Kiwis view as an iconic part of the country’s identity,” McCormick said.

It’s notable that Goff refused the Herald’s request under the Official Information Act to release the full notes of the meeting that Brash had with the six visiting Republican senators.

And, Labour was still telling the lie as recently as May 2011 – five months after the falsehood was revealed.

You can’t trust Labour and you can’t trust Phil Goff for anything other than for them to lie.

Now Phil Goff is lying again, this time about a briefing he said he didn’t get.

Trevor Mallard can’t lie straight in bed. He is crippled after all. He has to resort to lies, innuendo and now racism so desperate is he to prove that the Gnomes Underpants Stealing plan for election victory is working.

Today he really goes all out and defames me, Simon Lusk and insults and defames Aaron Bhatnagar for being an Indian amongst other things. I wonder what Labour’s Indian supporters think about his racial slurs, and I wonder what Phil Goff’s good friend Neelam Choudary has to say about it too.

I’m of a mind to stick his fucking bike race up his arse because of his constant lies and now his racist attitudes.

It certainly looks like the Buggers Muddle has been leaking and lying to Mallard again, in the hope that their favourite will get through.

There will be more on this later, who in National has been leaking to Labour and to Mallard, worse been lying about it too.

Labour are pushing their line about asset sales hard out. By John Armstrong has pointed out the obvious flaw in their plan:

Labour’s private member’s bill has about as much chance of becoming law as Namibia has of lifting the Rugby World Cup. Probably even less.

It will need something close to a miracle even to make it onto Parliament’s playing field this side of November’s election.

That is because Labour sees their number priority this election cycle as stopping students from having the same rights as everyone else does in choosing wheter or not they belong to a union, more to the point they wish to use up as much legislative time as possible opposing a private members bill from Heather Roy.

Priorities? Yeah it’s got me stuffed too.

It is here the problems start. First, the bill has to be lucky enough to be drawn in the irregular ballot of private member’s bills. At last count there were 24 other competing bills in the ballot.

As Labour’s opponents point out, the order paper is now clogged with 11 private member’s bills at various stages of debate because Labour has been filibustering an Act bill promoting voluntary membership of student unions.

The killer blow, however, is the provision in the 1995 rewrite of Parliament’s standing orders that any requirement for a 75 per cent majority for altering or removing something must itself get a 75 per cent majority to become entrenched.

To top things off, were the bill to hurdle that obstacle and become law, a future National-led Government could still repeal it with a simple 50 per cent-plus majority.

Labour are just sabre rattling but the problem is the blade fell off a long time ago. All they have is a scabbard, albeit a rusty one and a broken hilt.

But more to the point history shows that when it comes to asset sales and the record of the current Prime Minister vs. the man who would be Prime Minister, head to head only one Party Leader has a track record of selling assets.

His career average is a pretty solid 17 assets that sold for $9,490,000,000.

That party leader is the MP for Mt Roskill, and the most experienced asset seller in the New Zealand parliament, Phil Goff.

Treasury handily provides all the evidence.

State Asset Sales 1988 – 1999

These statistics do not show the sell off of Housing NZ state houses. Labour will say that they were surplus to requirement but the fact remains that they were an asset that they flogged off too. The value of those would probably add another billion onto Labour’s total.

Phil Goff was in Cabinet between 1984 and 1990 (Minister of, variously, Housing, Employment, Youth Affairs, Tourism, and Education). Annette King was elected to Cabinet in 1989 and had responsibility for Employment, Immigration, and Youth Affairs.

When Labour talks about asset sales and what National did, then know with certainty that Labour are hands down winners of the asset sales crown and any talk otherwise is more lies from the mouth of Phil Goff.