Phil Goff

There are two reasons why you should go and buy today’s Truth.

The first is that we reveal why it was that Labour attacked top cop Mike Bush in parliament:

ONE OF Auckland’s top cops has been boasting about having Deputy Police Commissioner Mike Bush sacked when his brother, Labour leader David Shearer, becomes Prime Minister.

Alan Shearer is the former Manurewa Area Police Commander and used to work under Bush during the years he spent as Counties Manukau district commander.

It is understood some bad blood exists between the pair after Bush removed him as Manurewa Area Commander into a new job at Counties Manukau where he is responsible for “planning and ending family violence” in South Auckland. …

A well-placed police source confirmed that Shearer had been “running his mouth off around town” about having Bush sacked once his brother David became Prime Minister.

“He’s been badmouthing Mike Bush. He is bitter and telling police officers in Counties Manukau that when his brother is Prime Minister he’s going to get Mike Bush,” the source told Truth.

“Alan Shearer is pissed off about being removed from his personal fiefdom in Manurewa and holds Bush responsible.”

Truth attempted to speak to Alan Shearer but he did not return calls.  Read more »

8 Labour MPs accepted corporate box tickets to the RWC from Sky City.

If they’re so evil, why did they accept?

Perhaps they could explain:

Grant Robertson?

David Shearer?

Clayton Cosgrove?  Read more »

Phil Goff broke suppression orders and nothing is going to be done about it unless someone lays a complaint with the Police.

I thought Shearer’s comments were a bit rich.

Labour leader David Shearer said John Key failed to show leadership by not calling Gilmore to get an explanation.

“The prime minister has just left it alone. He’ll pick up the phone to talk to somebody to get him a job in GCSB but he won’t pick up the phone to actually talk to his own MP. I find that extraordinary,” Shearer said, referring to Key’s call to old family friend Ian Fletcher over the top job at the Government Communications Security Bureau.  Read more »

I blogged earlier about Phil Goff breaching suppression orders. I have now listened to his interview this morning where he shows no remorse for his actions.

This is not the first time Mr Goff has misused official material to score a cheap political point though. His infamous leak about the “Gone By Lunchtime”, which he got wrong and was told he got wrong, was extensively run throughout the media?

His defence for breaking suppression orders on NewstalkZB this morning was priceless…but basically boiled down to – I didn’t release personal information -

Phil Goff has breached suppression orders in releasing secret Army documents. I hope the Police and Solicitor-General take as much interest in prosecuting Phil Goff as they did in prosecuting me.

Labour MP Phil Goff appears to have broken the law by releasing pages from a suppressed Court of Inquiry report into the death of a Kiwi soldier in Afghanistan.

Mr Goff has released part of the report into the death of Corporal Doug Hughes which he says reveals “critical deficiencies in the training and deployment of Kiwi troops”.

In February, Coroner Gordon Matenga released his report into Cpl Hughes’ death in April 2011, ruling it was a suicide, and an inquest was not necessary.

All other details of the report were suppressed, “including the report of the Court of Inquiry, in the interests of justice and on the basis of personal privacy”.  Read more »

The NZ Herald has confirmed all suspicions that they are just a conduit for the Labour party by publishing this article by Rebecca Quilliam today.

I’ll be that plenty of other political parties issued press releases paying tribute to the service of the armed forces. Prime Minister John Key paid a personal tribute in Wellington while attending the dawn parade, while David Shearer was hiding behind the shirt tails of Helen Clark in New York.

It disgusts me that they run a partisan and one-sided, almost word for word Labour’s press release on behalf of the Labour party on Anzac day. it is only one paragraph different, the first one. I can’t believe Rebecca Quilliam put her by-line on it since three quarters of the words aren’t even her own.

How shameful, how embarrassing.

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Socialists are the biggest hypocrites known to man. None more so though that Cheese Eating Surrender Monkey socialists.

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Jackie Blue’s resignation from parliament means that National will need another person to take one for the team in the safe Labour seat of Mt Roskill. Phil Goff holds Roskill with a massive majority of 7,271, so no National candidate has a realistic chance of winning the seat.

National’s stupidity in supporting red seat candidates means it burns through good people who will not want to take a fisting in the ballot box to help out John Key and Steven Joyce and Peter Goodfellow.  After the election the National Party was either dismissive or indifferent to those MPs likely to come back into the house or those who ran in red seats.   Read more »

Are there more policy u-turns on power coming tomorrow from current Leader David Shearer?

One of Labour’s big promises under the failed Phil Goff was to excuse state owned power companies from returning a dividend (except for new generation).

The same dividends that they said would be gone forever under asset sales…they do like having their cake and eating too.

Labour is quoting heroic returns from the state owned energy companies to try to make its fairy tale numbers look more credible.  The problem for Phil Goff is that he’s already promised Labour would forgo dividends from power companies. Did he lie to the Labour Party faithful during his speech to their congress in 2009?  Read more »