Tau Henare

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Helen’s Christmas greeting has been leaked.

Labour is the nasty party, Ctd

Two days ago Sue Moroney called Tau Henare a tosser:

Yesterday a constituent remonstrated with her over that comment and points out The Moroney Effect:

@ You think Tau's a looser? Guess you haven't heard of the moroney effect. #unelectable.

So what does Sue Moroney do? Apologise? No….she continues the nasty:

@ and you have been elected to Parliament how many times. the word was "Tosser."
@suemoroney
Sue Moroney

At the same time she misses the point that she is so nasty that she has never been elected in an electorate, instead relying on the patronage of a union to get her a high list ranking. In 5 attempts she is yet to win a seat, sliding in on the list three times.

I wonder what David Shearer is going to do about list MPs with such a poor public demeanour? MPs like Sue Moroney simply reinforce the impression that the Labour party is the nasty party. She is distinctly unlikeable and her election results prove it.

If Shearer is looking for an MP to swing the axe at to teach the other slow learners like Trevor Mallard a lesson.

Driving Miss Daisy

Tau Henare give some Labour MPs a goodbye head-butt in the last general debate of the parliamentary term.

The Law rather than emotions

The more insane members of Labour caucus and the left wing blogsphere are outraged, firstly that John Key even went on Radio Live for an hour and secondly when he was on the show he talked about cats and Coronations Street.

Even journalists who should know better climbed into the debate.

Once again it has been left up to the blogosphere to teach the trained journalists things that they get paid for, that is research. Graeme Edgeler explains the law in terms that even John Hartevelt should be able to undertand.

No broadcaster is allowed to give time to someone to run an election programme. Broadcasters can’t give one party or another a better deal on ad space. And no-one is permitted to broadcast an election programme before “writ day”. Which is pretty much why John Key had to talk about his cat and Coronation Street, when he was given an hour today on Radio Live.

In 2008, Newstalk ZB gave slots to Rodney Hide, Tau Henare, Winston Peters and Shane Jones. Shane Jones went so far his time was an election advertisement (as defined under the Electoral Finance Act). Winston Peters didn’t go as far but his show (along with Shane Jones’) was found by the Electoral Commission to be an election programme. The incidents were referred to police.

So Radio Live, either better advised, or just sensibly cautious, told the Prime Minister today that he had to stay out of politics.

And the last paragraph is a real slap to the journalists.

There’s an exception later in the Broadcasting Act about how the prohibition on broadcasting election programmes doesn’t restrict “in relation to an election, of news or of comments or of current affairs programmes,” but giving over the airwaves for politics is over the line. But if the result is going to be like this, you’ve got to wonder why they bothered. And a note to Stuff: this isn’t prohibited by ”Electoral Commission rules”, they’re a offence created by Parliament.

Charles Chauvel – a man of the people

Much fuss was made of Tau Henare driving an Audi, a poor mand Mercedes if you will.

No such stigma for Charles Chauvel though, he does drive a Mercedes. My tipster tells me the signs are magnetic and they were authorised. Can;t say I’m impressed with the overhung of his allotted space either.

Charles Chauvel's Mercedes

Serial whinger

Cicelia Holliday has got herself upset because she may have had the fingers pulled at her by Tau Henare. The tipline has been buzzing about this woman.

It seems she is a serial whinger and one of the mad cyclists rule the road mob.

She also whines to the local community board about traffic issues.

So it looks like CicElia Holliday is a westie whinger.

One thing I have checked is it appears she isn’t a member of the Labour party. I went through my copy of the membership records and donation records and she doesn’t appear.

I’m still going with the roid rage angle. Serial complainer and roid rage.

What is more likely?

Road rage from an MP with a heart condition or roid road rage from someone who has is involved in body building and has photos of herself in bodybuilding poses on Facebook.

Yeah, I think I will go with the roid road rage from the body builder.

The real give away of the real motivations behind the complaint is this statement.

“What gives Mr Henare the idea that he is entitled to drive as he pleases? Does being a National MP and driving around in an Audi splashed with National Party colours entitle him to special treatment … be rude to other road users, ignore road rules and endanger others on the road? Is he better and more important than others?”

Plus whenever someone prefaces their comments with a statement professing their undying support for a party I am rightly suspicious.

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Tweets of the Week

via Keeping Stock

and while Phil Goff was out West he tweeted this:

Just as well they know who he is, no one else in the country does. Thank god for NZEI indoctrination of yoof, I say.

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Images of Conference – The Minister of Twitter

The Minister of Twitter

Tweet of the Week

Tau Henare telling it how it is.

Does anyone else think the comments from the political cripple were just bit ironic considering that the last time Tau Henare offended Trevor Mallard he went and assaulted Tau. Will Trevor be taking Tau out the back for a bit of biffo again?

Labour MP Trevor Mallard, also an enthusiastic social media user, said “it’s beyond the limits.”

“The line is drawn in a different place on Twitter, but in this case Tau has gone beyond it. It’s unlikely to upset many people, mainly because of the way that Hone is perceived by a lot of people.”