I was lis­ten­ing to Radio New Zealand and nearly drove off the road. Matthew Hooton was heard defend­ing Bill Eng­lish and his trough­ing. Lis­ten at about 9 minutes.

Sounds like Hooton has been got at by Key to defend English

Though clearly within the rules it is this sort of gra­tu­itous trough­ing by ALL MPs that we must cam­paign to remove.

It is hardly a good look when we are crit­i­cis­ing ben­e­fi­cia­ries for spend­ing up under their “enti­tle­ments” when other state ben­e­fi­cia­ries like cab­i­net min­is­ters are doing so as well.

The prob­lem we have is that cat is charge of the canaries and not the other way around.

We must gain con­trol over our par­lia­ment and stop the trough­ing all round. The Greens and Labour have of course stayed very, very quiet on this because their snouts are firmly jammed right in the trough as well.

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