Naida Glavish

If there was an award for stupid PR then Jetstar would win hands down with daylight to second place. This month has seen their brand destroyed all because one fool at Auckland Airport dared Mike Earley to go to the press. What the soon to be unemployed fool didn’t know was that Mike is a child of the now and he had gone first to the blogs then onto twitter before it even got to the press. By the time Jetstar even thought about press releases they had copped a flogging online for two straight days. It is now day 8 of their humiliation and still they have not apologised.

Their MO has been blame, accuse, and lie. The Herald editorial gives them a lecture on how they should conduct business, this is perhaps unprecedented for such a new business. Other businesses are slamming home the advantage. Air NZ rescued 50 passengers on friday, and Pacific Blue made at least 4 announcements on my flight to Wellington thanking us for flying Pacific Blue and mocking Jetstar as a carrier that doesn’t carry.

The final ignominy for any new business in a competitive environment is to be mocked on a Tui billboard. Jetstar hasn’t even been going a month and they made it to Tui.

I’ve said it many times, bad things happen to people or those in contact with people who have Silly First Names. The syndrome of which i am a leading expert, has again been found in West Auckland.

The man accused of raping a 13 year-old girl in the Auckland suburb of Waterview can now be named.

He is Aukustino Faatafa, 34, of Massey.

Faatafa is charged with abducting, drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl in April.

He is also charged with intent to facilitate sexual violation through stupefying the girl and making her incapable of resistance, by forcing her to smoke cannabis.

When will the mayhem end, when will the authories act to prevent such crimes by lacin all people who have contracted Silly First Name Syndrome into a monitorin programme.

A pod of Orca visited Auckland Harbour yesterday and it seems that the stingray of the harbour have caught Phil Goff’s chickenitis.

They didn’t want to play with the whales!

So cool to have Orca visiting Auckland Harbour.

I heard an Orca expert on the radio yesterday who said that stingrays are like chocolate biscuits to Orca.

Anyway, I’m off to Wellington for a couple of days, will go and see if Phil Goff will talk to me off camera.

Probably won’t, the list of Labour MP’s too afraid to talk to the Whale is building.

We have seen those MPs snapped troughing in Mt Albert provide us with all manner of excuses for why they were in Mt Albert.

Trevor Mallard explained to me and to others at Back Benches that he had been careful to arrange meetings “as cover” for him being in Auckland.

Then all of a sudden it hit me. Labour’s campaign slogan was “Putting Mt Albert First”.

Clearly they meant that for the whole country, putting Mt Albert first before all others. If I was a constituent from Wainuiomata and Palmerston North I’d wonder why I bothered to elect a Labour MP whose motto now seems to be putting Mt Albert first at the expense of my own electorate.

The fact that MPs seem to think that scheduling a number of meetings outsidfe of their own electorate as some sort of justification for troughing it up at the taxpayers expense shows just how arrogant and out of touch they become once elected.

This is particularly true of constituent MPs, they are elected to represent a local area and they saw fit to do exactly the opposite and put Mt Albert first above their own electorate.

Rush to Mt Albert – the list grows – Out-of-town Labour MP Iain Lees-Galloway used a rental car to campaign in the Mt Albert byelection and says it was not paid for from his taxpayer-funded expenses. But it could have been covered by a colleague’s expenses claim. Mr… [NZ Herald Politics]

The Herald has another article about troughing MP’s campaigning in Mt Albert on the taxpayers tit. The most interesting comment from a troughing MP is about Trevor Mallard.

Labour MP Trevor Mallard said he made three visits to Auckland during the byelection campaign and did a lot of parliamentary business.

He used taxis and rental cars, but as Mt Albert was on the way to the airport, he did not incur any extra expense.

Really! A quick ring around the most well known cab companies would have told the repeaters from the Herald that unless you are going to Henderson, Mt Albert isn’t on the way from the Airport to anywhere! At Backbenchers I asked Trevor where he was staying and he told me in the city. So I plugged in details of Auckland Airport to Auckland City and lo and behold the quickest direct route to the City from the airport, inconveniently for Trevor, goes nowhere even remotely close to Mt Albert electorate.

I can just imagine…jump in a cab and say “City, pal, via Mt albert” The cabbie would have a grin from ear to ear, it would add about $60 to the fare. Trevor Mallard you’ve been found out.

Taxpayers get bill for MPs’ campaign trips – MPs dipped into the public purse to help campaign in the Mt Albert by-election by taking free flights to get there and attending unrelated meetings so taxpayers would pick up their hotel bills. At least 17 MPs from outside Auckland… [NZ Herald Politics]

The Herald has an article on troughing MP’s using our money to travel to Mt Albert for campaigning. Labour of course had the most.

MPS IN MT ALBERT

The Herald saw at least 17 out-of-Auckland MPs on the campaign trail.

LABOUR HAD 12

Annette King, Darren Hughes, Maryan Street, Moana Mackey, Sue Moroney, Grant Robertson, Jacinda Ardern, Clare Curran, David Parker, Charles Chauvel, Grant Robertson and Clayton Cosgrove.

NATIONAL HAD THREE

John Carter, David Carter and Aaron Gilmore.

THE GREENS HAD TWO

Metiria Turei and Sue Kedgley.

They omit Trevor Mallard and of course Russel Norman. I note also that Simon Bridges was also spotted in Auckland but that may well have coincided with a visit to his wife who has a business in Auckland.

Technically speaking if John Carter is counted then so should Phil Goff, he lives about as far from his electorate as John Carter was from his.

Now you know why I say Labour litterally spent our money securing Mt Albert which was a must win for them and Phil Goff. The irony is that they may well have assisted in putting in parliament Phil Goff’s eventual successor.

The tipline has been running hot. Loyal informers are suggesting that Lianne Dalziel is soon to announce her candidacy for the Mayoralty of Christchurch.

Fair play to her if she does, going from cabinet minister to opposition is pretty soul destroying, and the word is there are a number of other former ministers looking for exit options. Despite being kicked out for lying, the socialist republic of christchurch may vote for someone of dubious ethics if she bribes them enough.

The big question for Lianne is not whether she will run for mayor, but if she will resign before she does run, following the party line of the tactical Labour MPs attacking Sam Lotu-Iiga for staying on the Auckland City Council and being an MP. The whale is going to love bashing any future Labour MP that doesn’t immediately resign from a council, or if they try running for council as an MP and will constantly bring up the really dumb press release put out by Carol beaumont, Su’a William Sio & Carmel Sepuloni calling for Sam’s resignation.

In fact if Lianne does stand for mayor without resigning she could face a horde of black and white whales chasing her around Christchurch demanding she resigns. Not a great way to run a campaign, but poetic justice after the stupid tactics her dumb juniors have adopted in Auckland.

Carol, Sio & Carmel, you have made a massive strategic mistake, and it wont be forgotten. Labour have a long history of using council as a training ground for future MPs, so your stupidity will reap a grim harvest.

Not so good by the looks of it.

Another cold snap is on the way for New Zealand with snow to low levels and extremely low temperatures, says WeatherWatch.co.nz.

A southerly is expected to arrive on Sunday in the deep south reaching Auckland by Tuesday. Daytime highs are expected to plummet following a mild few days thanks to a northerly.

If Neelam Choudary was so scared of Richard Worth, how come she kept having little coffee dates with him until at least Friday 27 March?

That’s when Whaleoil’s spies saw them together, happy and comfortable in each other’s presence, chatting about India, at Circus Circus Cafe, 447 Mount Eden Road, Auckland.

Phil Goff has many questions to answer and answer them he must because this whole honey trap is atarting to stink like a crate of week old scampi.

Questions for Goff:

1) Did he know about the coffee date on Friday 27 March at Circus Circus, 447 Mt Eden Road, Auckland?

2) Did he know about other coffee dates?

3) Did he ask Neelam Choudary to set up this or other coffee dates?

4) Did she report back to him what was said?

5) When did Neelam Choudary stop having coffee dates with Richard Worth?

Police probe into Worth claim spans two cities – Officers in Auckland and Wellington are continuing to investigate a complaint against National MP Richard Worth, police said this afternoon. The person who complained to the police about the former government minister is an Auckland… [NZ Herald Politics]

This Richard Worth saga is getting a bit silly now. Especially the silly cow that thought Phil Goff would protect her from the preying silly old goat that is Richard Worth. That story stinks almost more than Winston’s stale old scampi sandwiches.

Still Richard Worth has been touting for roots with any woman below the age of 60 and breathing and wearing a skirt. His modus operandi is clearly jobs for jobs. Silly old goat. He should just resign and disappear in ignominy.

Perhaps the funniest story though, is the mad ravings of Pork Chop aka Rachel Glucina. She oinks from her blog;

Richard Worth never offered me a job. Not a sniffle of a vocation prospect. Not a shout out to come swimming. Nor a late-night phone call, or a dirty text message. He wasn’t sporting a welcome home banner at the airport from those long MTV parties I attended overseas. Hell, I never even felt his squinty eyes mentally undress me when I saw him at the many, many social functions at which our paths crossed.

There is more than one reason for Richard Worth never hitting on you. It defies belief that Pork Chop thinks anyone would be surprised by that. I dont think any man would hit on her…except perhaps the head of the Pork Board.

For a start she’s too fat for even Worth to bother, then there is the psoriasis, the scabs and the constant stuffing of food into the yawning maw of a mouth. She only posted her blog post because she is pissed off and jealous that Richard Worth sought quality PR from Malcolm Boyle and Cedric Allen at Star PR and not taudry glitteratti pap from Pink PR. With a name like Pink PR you’d think they only represent tired old homos masquerading as men about the town……oh wait!