When Phil Goff says it is…or isn’t.
Phil Goff flips, flops and flaps all around the issue.
And here is the video of the interview. Good grief Phil Goff is such a hapless, goober.
Phil Goff has been caught telling lies so many times you now know that when he opens his mouth what ever he says will be a mis-truth.
Yesterday was no different as his shameless politicking over the MV Rena and silly photo opportunities and disaster tourism became the news.
When asked about why he went down tot he beach in contravention of official advice his reply was that he was asked to by people on the beach.
Goff lies to Newstalkzb by whaleoil
This was in stark contrast to an eyewitness account of what actually went on. Plus there is the photo of Goff in his shiny suit and equally shiny shoes. Not the attire of someone going to assist as he says.
I really do wonder why politicians in general and Phil Goff in particular always seem to default to a lie when the truth would do?
When Phil Goff was confronted with his lies over the SIS briefing he said he didn’t have but actually did have he chose to dig the hole even deeper. What he should have done then is simply say he forgot and it would have killed the story. He didn’t and history now shows that he was briefed, that he used a tragedy to politicise the event and it backfired.
Likewise with the Rena photo opportunity. He should ahve simply said “Of course it was a photo shoot, that’s what politicians do”. The story would ahve died but now he is on record as saying that people asked him to help and so he did. We know that this wasn’t the case and so now the story becomes Goff’s lies.
Silly, silly man.
Phil Goff likes to have pictures taken of him with shovels.
This is the one from this morning which we now know was staged:
And then this one from Christchurch which is presumably staged as well:
And then this one from Christchurch as well where he is standing next to a shovel which is in the hands of an expert:
Yesterday Phil Goff went to Tauranga to share his world class expertise with sinking ships.
Trevor Mallard went large on the issue last night posting screenshots of Phil Goff’s Facebook page and John Key’s Facebook page with the clear inference that Phil Goff cares and John Key doesn’t.
Then we had this photo appearing on Stuff of the caring Phil Goff in his shiny shoes and suit using a shovel.
A caller to Leighton Smith’s show this morning though puts this all into perspective:
Goff caught staging a photo op by whaleoil
Goff was ditched by the Otago Chamber of Commerce because they couldn’t sell any tickets and so he legs it to Tauranga to stage a photo-op.
Phil Goff the disaster tourist milking tragedy and playing politics.
There has been all manner of scare mongering about the oil spill of the MV RENA. It must be remembered though that this is a container ship not an oil tanker and so the amount of oil spilled is actually tiny compared could what could have been. While still bad it is nowhere near the catastrophe that politicians who should know better are desperately trying to make it out to be.
Maui Street posted an Infographic that tries to show the scale of the problem of RENA. Unfortunately it doesn’t. I have added on some perspective. The Greens and Labour can’t complain about that perspective because they decided to conflate MV RENA with deep-water drilling and so it bears some comparison.
For ease of use I have used the typical size of current NZ coastal tankers for measurement and the the recent Deepwater Horizon event in the US that Gareth Hughes is so exercised about.
Deepwater Horizon spilled the equivalent of 21 tankers of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, in contrast the oil spill of MV RENA will only be 5% of just one tanker.
If the Federal authorities in the US would get off their arse there is a ship available that could help skim up the oil in the Gulf of Mexico. Fittingly it is called the “A Whale” and it is a massive ship 340m long and 60m wide with a draught of 11.3m.
A massive, newly-retooled supertanker that its owner claims could skim millions of gallons of oily water a day is now in the Gulf of Mexico, where government and BP officials intend to run tests shortly to see if it actually works.
With residents of four states complaining about the dearth of skimming vessels off their shores, the 10-story tall, 372-yard long Taiwanese-owned behemoth — called A Whale — could be an enormous boon to the region.
Or it could be a really, really big disappointment.
Nobu Su, the CEO and founder of Taiwan Maritime Transport (TMT), told reporters in Norfolk on Friday that on account of the special holes he had cut in its sides, his vessel would roll across the Gulf “like a lawn mower cutting the grass.”
Though the ship and the process are entirely untested, Su insisted A Whale could ingest and process some 15 million gallons of oily water a day. By comparison, the entire emergency response since BP’s Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on April 20 has collected 28 million gallons of oily water.
