Priviliges Committee

Sex Bomb? Surely they jest

by Whaleoil July 18, 2009

Last week I was the pin up boy, this week it is Helen Clark the “Sex Bomb”.

The young Helen Clark was once described as “a sex bomb” in black boots, accord­ing to a new unau­tho­rised biog­ra­phy of the for­mer prime minister.

Helen Clark, by Welling­ton jour­nal­ist Denis Welch, says trade union leader Matt McCarten’s first mem­ory of her was from the early 80s. “She was dressed all in black and had big black boots,” McCarten said.

Fel­low union­ist Laila Harre, later an Alliance Party cab­i­net min­is­ter in Clark’s first cab­i­net, recalled a 1985 party where young men were “sali­vat­ing over Helen Clark and her boots”.

“McCarten: ‘She was a sex bomb!“‘

“Harre: ‘She was, actu­ally from a left-wing point of view. We don’t have very high standards!“‘

I won­der what Rene thinks about that description?

Welch says Clark holds grudges. “She has the mem­ory of an ele­phant, and never for­gets a name, a face, or a grievance.”

She’s “a great gos­sip; she loves know­ing stuff about peo­ple, espe­cially mem­bers of the National Party. It’s not that she uses it viciously, she just likes the sense of power it brings her”, writes Welch.

“Though she dis­ap­proves of sex­ual shenani­gans, she would never do some­one down on the basis of sala­cious gos­sip: she’s a very moral, con­ser­v­a­tive per­son, a Waikato farm girl at heart.”

No of course she wouldn’t, she got Mal­lard and oth­ers to do her dirty work for her, per­haps on the promise of a ses­sion with the black boots.

 

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Is Helen Clark a tosser?

by Whaleoil July 17, 2009

The Stan­dard think that any­one who uses the term New Zealand Inc is a tosser.

Well then, that means Helen Clark must be a tosser.

Was she a tosser here?

Also, she used it again here

and here

and here

and for a real good luagh Google search site:www.labour.org.nz “New Zealand Inc”

Lots of old ref­er­ences, now all deleted on their new site.

Turns out that Phil Goff, Lianne Dalziel, Michael Cullen, and Harry Duyn­hoven are all Tossers accord­ing to The Standard.

So when ever any­one asks if Labour are a party of tossers you can cat­e­gor­i­cally state that yes ineed they are and Wha­le­oil proved it.

 


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Guilty of nothing more than being helpful to his constituents

by Whaleoil July 11, 2009

The cor­rup­tion and bribery trial of Philip Field con­tin­ues. Remem­ber this is the man that Helen Clark and Michael Cullen said was guilty of noth­ing more than being help­ful to his constituents.

Corruption of Philip Field

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A little birdy told me

by Whaleoil July 8, 2009

A few of inter­est­ing bits of gos­sip have come in over the Tip Line.

Clark on the Bludge in New York

It seems that Helen Clark was on the bludge recently in New York. Turns out that despite a salary of over $500,000 USD there is no accom­mo­da­tion sup­ple­ment and she had to find her own accomodation.

Yes it is hard to believe but this vet­eran trougher from the pub­lic purse, despite a life­time of trough­ing and own­ing a multi-million dol­lar prop­erty port­fo­lio her­self was try­ing to score free accom­mo­da­tion in New York by request­ing accom­mo­da­tion in the UN Ambassador’s house until she found one.

Her request was politely declined.

Pork Chop and Gilda K trough­ing it up at Yum Char…plus the cat fight amongst the witnesses

The other story involves one of the biggest Pigs in Auck­land. Pork Chop and Gilda K were seen trough­ing up large, and I mean large at Grand Har­bour, one of the best Yum Char’s in Auck­land. The two of them looked pos­i­tively mis­er­able. I won­der who the nasty per­son was who sent BBQ Pork Buns, Roast Pork and BBQ Pork to the table?

Per­haps Pork Chop as seek­ing solace after the down-low bust-up of the rela­tion­ship between the Chop’s and their star wit­nesses in the Saunders/Chop case. Firstly the word is that a bit too much snoop­ing went on when the Chops were look­ing at one of the wit­nesses lap­top for the emails. The other inter­est­ing thing is Mrs Chop’s lawyer seems to have ditched the case leav­ing Drew with­out representation.

Ohhh…I won­der why that hap­pened. Per­haps it is the same old prob­lem that Mrs Chop always has…the lit­tle issue of pay­ing ones bill.

Shayne and Stephen up a tree.…

This is really inter­est­ing con­sid­er­ing the ongo­ing Employ­ment Dis­pute between HoS and StePhen Cook.

StePhen Cook who has sued for unfair dis­missal after appar­ently being accused of sell­ing class A’s in the bogs at HOS is hav­ing a good whack at Shayne Cur­rie. His affi­davit against Shayne appar­ently con­tained sex­ual harass­ment claims (obvi­ously not towards Pork Chop — we know Shayne is not that desperate).

Eye Spy

Is it true that Jonathan Mar­shall to be the new About Town guy? Could this be the end of Pork Chop, after lying about being offered the job, as Mar­shall is way nasty, hard work­ing and gay so knows all the goss. He also doesn’t eat as much so will be wel­come at more events than the woman with the ever expand­ing arse.



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Hooton on Evil

by Whaleoil July 3, 2009

Matthew Hooton writes in the NBR about the evil of Helen Clark. Why his clumns aren’t online is beyond me and the weekly traipse up to the How­ick Sta­tion­ers is a bore. How­ever todays col­umn made the fee for the whole NBR worth it.

Every­one should read at least the sum­mary of this week’s Fore­shore and Seabed report, for a timely reminder of the true nature of the regime defeated last November.

From 1999, Helen Clark set about con­trol­ling all sources of pub­lic dis­course in New Zealand.

Clark ultras were pro­gres­sively appointed through­out the pub­lic ser­vice, includ­ing even the upper ech­e­lons of the police, or moved into influ­en­tial roles in state broadcasting.

Actors, artists and screen­writ­ers, who nor­mally play an impor­tant sub­ver­sive role in soci­ety, were pur­chased with tax­payer indul­gences and prime min­is­te­r­ial patronage.

This march through the insti­tu­tions cre­ated a left-wing fog so thick that, even today, the pub­lic still per­ceives a mostly pos­i­tive pic­ture of Ms Clark’s nine grisly years in power.

That fog is lift­ing and his­to­ri­ans will even­tu­ally assess Ms Clark to have been a polit­i­cal mon­ster in the mould of Nixon or Muldoon.

Per­haps Matthew is prone to some hys­ter­ics but in the cold light of the truth that has emerged from the dark days of Helen­grad we can see that there is some accu­racy in his open­ing gambit.

From the out­set, Clark’s regime had a blood­lust for the pol­i­tics of per­sonal destruc­tion. Whether Peter Doone, Roger Kerr, Kit Richards or “hater and wreck­ers” Pita Sharples and Tar­i­ana Turia, any­one who opposed its agenda was viciously smeared.

Her gov­ern­ment stole money, passed ret­ro­spec­tive leg­is­la­tion to cover up its crimes, defended crim­i­nal wrong­do­ing by its min­is­ters, out­lawed effec­tive crit­i­cism of the regime in elec­tion year, lied shame­lessly even on triv­ial mat­ters and brazenly removed basic legal rights even from its allies.

Thus, while most intel­li­gent peo­ple didn’t care whether there was GE corn in New Zealand, the Clark Gov­ern­ment said it did care, and insisted there wasn’t when it knew there was.

Gov­ern­ment PR bud­gets were brought under the con­trol of party activists like Clare Cur­ran, and tax­pay­ers’ money used for pledge cards and other pro­pa­ganda as if it were party funds.

When­ever caught, Ms Clark would smear any­one from the auditor-general to the char­ity to which she sent a fake paint­ing. Where nec­es­sary, she’d change the law to declare what she had done to be legal.

Again a lit­tle the­atri­cal, yet some­how very accu­rate. We can see a pic­ture of true evil start­ing to appear.

Against such com­pe­ti­tion, it’s dif­fi­cult to iden­tify the most evil act of the Clark years, but the Fore­shore & Seabed Act prob­a­bly takes the title.

This was leg­is­la­tion intro­duced to Par­lia­ment by attorney-general and Clark pup­pet Mar­garet Wil­son to over­turn a unan­i­mous Court of Appeal deci­sion in which she her­self was the los­ing party.

The deci­sion did not award own­er­ship of any­thing to any­one, being merely jurisdictional.

Nor did it invoke potentially-contentious Treaty law, instead rest­ing entirely on the ancient common-law doc­trine of abo­rig­i­nal title.

If Ms Clark and Ms Wil­son dis­agreed with the deci­sion, they could have appealed to the Privy Coun­cil, but they decided not to because they were then try­ing to abol­ish that right for every­one else.

Instead, imme­di­ately — just four days after the Court of Appeal deci­sion — they announced leg­is­la­tion to bla­tantly deny a group of New Zealan­ders the right to explore their common-law prop­erty rights in court.

It was a despi­ca­ble attack on the rule of law and due process, strongly opposed on prin­ci­ple by the busi­ness com­mu­nity and a wide cross sec­tion of the com­mu­nity, includ­ing me.

Inded it was a despi­ca­ble act, rob­bing a whole sec­tion of our pop­u­la­tion from recourse before the courts purely on the basis of race. A more racist act in the his­tory of New Zealand would be hard to find. What can Goff do to undo the dam­age.? All indi­ca­tions thus far on Goff though are that he is con­tu­ni­ing at least with the pol­i­tics of per­saonal destruc­tion, not the least for him­self by run­ning dirty lit­tle sting and pimp­ing oper­a­tions. How­ever Matthew Hooton disagrees.

Today, Labour still strug­gles with these truths, absurdly claim­ing its hand was forced by Bill Eng­lish and Don Brash.

In fact, when Ms Clark and Ms Wil­son decided to leg­is­late, Bill English’s National Party was dying in the polls and Dr Brash was merely his dis­loyal finance spokesman.

The Orewa speech was more than six months away; the Iwi/Kiwi bill­boards two years.

Before it can be redeemed, Labour needs first to be hon­est about its past. It must admit that it alone was respon­si­ble for the out­rage, and that it knew what it was doing was wrong, but that it did it anyway.

After the excesses of Mul­doon, Jim McClay became National’s leader. Mr McClay proved to have no hope of ever becom­ing prime min­is­ter but he valiantly began the process of elim­i­nat­ing the Mul­doon legacy from his party. His­tory judges him kindly.

Like Mr McClay, Phil Goff will never be prime min­is­ter but his­tory too will judge him kindly if he uses his time as leader to dis­tance his party from the dis­grace of the Clark years.

If Goff is Labour’s McClay then that makes it highly likely that David Shearer is Labour’s John Key.

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I have to make myself more public: Phil Goff

by Whaleoil June 19, 2009

I have to make myself more pub­lic: Phil Goff — At the end of our hour together, Phil Goff said, “Do you think you cov­ered every­thing you wanted to cover?” I asked if he had cov­ered every­thing he had wanted to cover. I was gen­uinely inter­ested in his answer because I would have… [NZ Her­ald Pol­i­tics]

There is a mirth induc­ing inter­view with Phil Goff in the Her­ald today. Michele Hewit­son is known for mak­ing politi­cians look like plonkers and she again suc­ceeds with Phil Goff.

One thing he is known for is giv­ing hor­ri­bly long answers to ques­tions, even to ques­tions that haven’t been asked. There is an old joke about him in the Radio New Zealand news­room which goes like this: Phil Goff has never missed a dead­line. “Ha, ha, I haven’t heard that one. I’ve always fronted up to media.”

Oh right, either Phil Goff has an extremely poor mem­ory or he is a liar. Just two weeks ago he refused to front up to Close Up because he would have had to have shared the stu­dio with me.

Phil Goff also dig him­self deeper into the honey trap and shows he was com­plicit in its execution.

We got into a cir­cu­lar argu­ment over why he called the Labour Party woman at the cen­tre of the row “strik­ingly beau­ti­ful”. I want to know why on earth he said it; he can’t see what my prob­lem is. He says it was absolutely rel­e­vant because “that was one of the things that made her attrac­tive to Dr Worth”. It still seems to me to be a pecu­liar thing to say, and I say I can’t imag­ine Helen Clark say­ing it. “She might have.”

Right. So to put that in con­text you need to lis­ten to this audio of an

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on 12 June.

Phil Goff tells a dif­fer­ent story about the first meet­ing of Nee­lam Choudary. Goff says he didn’t know that Nee­lam Choudary’s hus­band was fac­ing fraud charges yet at this point he would have known that Nee­lam Choudary was a failed can­di­date in the Botany selec­tion and he for sure would have known why she was a failed can­di­date in the Botany selec­tion. That sug­gests that Phil Goff is being less than com­pletely hon­est about his knowl­edge of the back­ground of Nee­lam Choudary and of her con­victed fraud­ster husband.

Sec­ondly he says that he states the rea­son he gave the advice to Choudary to take some­one with her to the first ever meet­ing with Richard Worth was because “if a min­is­ter wants to have a pri­vate meet­ing and is offer­ing a job to some­body he knows is the opposition’s camp, I thought fairly early on that there might be an ulte­rior motive, I didn’t have any evi­dence for that, but I sug­gested, actu­ally I would have sug­gested that she took some­body into the meet­ing with her, unfor­tu­nately she didn’t do that, I think that was for her own pro­tec­tion I made that rec­c­om­men­da­tion”.

That is a fairly long answer and as Michele Hewit­son puts it, “One thing he is known for is giv­ing hor­ri­bly long answers to ques­tions, even to ques­tions that haven’t been asked.”

And that is pre­cisely what Phil Goff has done to his detri­ment. He inad­ver­tantly tells us that a) he knew about this sting “fairly early on”, b) He talks about a job offer when the alleged affi­davit tells us that the job offer was made at this meet­ing and not before, which leaves c) that know­ing Richard Worth’s pen­chant for sleep­ing with asian ladies he set up this honey trap.

Phil Goff has lied to the media about his and his offices involve­ment with Nee­lam choudary, he has lied to the pub­lic. Not one of his sto­ries has ever added up with any one of his pre­vi­ous stories.

I am not con­vinced at all that any such job offer was nec­es­sar­ily made or if it was that this was the main rea­son for the meet­ing. Dr Worth had only just been appointed Min­is­ter of Inter­nal Affairs on 19 Novem­ber and this meet­ing took place on 26 Novem­ber. He would prob­a­bly not even have known at that time what posi­tions were avail­able on the Lot­ter­ies Board or Eth­nic Affairs Board. Such offers would only have been exploratory any­way as the Min­is­ter him­self can­not act alone on such matters.

JOIN THE DOTS…Kumar Choudary stayed in the car park because it would not be a good look to have a per­son who is a Labour Party activist and Goff’s friend (note he didn’t deny that she was his friend) whose hus­band faced crim­i­nal fraud charges; hav­ing a meet­ing in a pub­lic place with a Min­is­ter to seek advice.

it is highly likely that Phil Goff as Nee­lam Choudary’s friend knew about the charges Kumar faced and it is very prob­a­ble that Nee­lam was seek­ing advice from Dr Worth on mat­ters relat­ing to her hus­band (Inter­nal Affairs deals with pass­ports, per­mits etc). Kumar Choudary could have faced depor­ta­tion once con­victed and this would have weighed heav­ily on his wife’s mind. Nee­lam Choudary sought Goff’s advice as to who she should seek help from re: her hus­band. Phil Goff knew that Dr Worth had influ­ence and could be per­suaded if the woman appli­cant — shall we say — showed a bit of leg and cleav­age!

Clearly Phil Goff pimped out Nee­lam Choudary and then used her to score polit­i­cal points. Phil Goff needs to come clean about the despi­ca­ble way in which he used a woman to get at a min­is­ter, then kept quiet about it until it suited his polit­i­cal pur­poses and then leaked the details to the media so it would appear that John Key made it public.

So far Richard Worth is guilty of noth­ing more than cheat­ing on his wife and God knows there isn’t a politi­cian in the world that hasn’t done that. Phil Goff has done much worse, he has dragged the Labour Party and pol­i­tics in gen­eral to a new low. We all thought that we couldn’t go lower in stan­dards than that which Helen Clark set but Phil Goff’s stan­dards of behav­iour are pos­i­tively subterranean.

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Honeygate — Exposing the lies of the Pimp

by Whaleoil June 13, 2009

Now that the Mt Albert by-election has fin­ished we can con­cen­trate on the men­dac­ity of Phil Goff and the lies he has told in ped­dling his story to the media and his role in pimp­ing out Mrs Choudary.

We all know now that Phil Goff was sup­posed to have acted as some sort of sex­ual har­rass­ment coun­sel­lor for Nee­lam Choudary. Nee­lam Choudary her­self was pro­trayed as an inno­cent vic­tim when she was far from that all along. There is now archive footage of Nee­lam Choudary in train with Helen Clark on the elec­tion trail last year. You sim­ply don’t get to be in the entourage of any cam­paign­ing leader let alone the Prime Min­is­ter unless you are con­sid­ered a top activist.

More infor­ma­tion is con­tin­u­ally com­ing to light about this woman as well, through the tipline. I thank those who are doing their duty in expos­ing the lies of Phil Goff.

Mr Goff has also gone out of his way to describe Mrs Choudary as some sort of demure, inno­cent who has been affronted by Richard Worth’s preda­tory actions. Phil Goff later went on to describe her as “strik­ingly attrac­tive” and thus directly lead­ing me to dis­cover her iden­tity. How­ever mat­ters of pub­lic record record a dif­fer­ent Mrs Choudary than the one described by Phil Goff.

On Koro Tawa’s web­site for his cam­paign in Botany she is described as;

Neelam ChoudaryIt is an enor­mous strength to the cam­paign to be joined with two sig­nif­i­cant iden­ti­ties and rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the com­mu­nity, each of whom will make a valu­able con­tri­bu­tion in engag­ing with the con­stituents of Botany.…..

.…..Nee­lam Choudary has estab­lished an enor­mously strong net­work in the Indian com­mu­nity, and has con­sulted widely accross many of  India’s top busi­ness and polit­i­cal leaders.

Hardly the descrip­tion of some wilt­ing vio­let under pres­sure from a Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter to put out for a job. We also know too that she stood in the selec­tion for Botany for Labour. It is incon­ceiv­able that Phil Goff hardly knew this woman. That is her pic­tured above with List MP Ray­mond Huo.

On Thurs­day night Mr Goff said he had met Kumar Choudary only once. I won­der if Mr Goff woud like to tell us where that was? My infor­ma­tion sug­gests that this is also a lie by Mr Goff. So far every piece of infor­ma­tion I have pub­lished on this story has been highly accu­rate. Would Mr Goff like clarify?

He would not say whether he knew he had been found guilty of immi­gra­tion fraud, but said that did not affect the cred­i­bil­ity of the complainant.

Fur­ther, yes­ter­day on Radio Live a caller directly put the ques­tion to Mr Goff about his knowl­edge of Mrs Choudary and her fraud­ster hus­band. That caller has sent me an email about the converstation;

Today on Radio Live Phil Goff told me he did NOT know any­thing about the charges Nee­lam Choudary’s hus­band Kumar Choudary — faced at the time he {Goff} advised her she should take a sup­port per­son along to her first meet­ing with Dr Richard Worth on 26 Novem­ber 2008.

And yet at that time he knew that Nee­lan Choudary had missed out on the Labour Party nom­i­na­tion for the seat of Botany — due in large part to the fact that seri­ous charges involv­ing immi­gra­tion scams had been laid against her hus­band — and she was impli­cated in them (see NZ Her­ald story 8/12/08). Labour Party hier­ar­chy knew about this shock­ing scam. Kumar was fac­ing a loom­ing case in the Auck­land Dis­trict Court the week after he accom­pa­nied his wife to meet Dr Worth. In the end he stayed in the car in the car park.

So we now have the sit­u­a­tion where almost every thing that Phil Goff has told us, save the iden­tity of the woman has been demon­stra­bly false, now we are suposed to believe on 26 Novem­ber — the time of the meet­ing — that Neelan’s close con­fi­dent [pimp] Phil Goff knew noth­ing about the crim­i­nal charges her hus­band faced.

 

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A referee I’d rather not have

by Whaleoil June 12, 2009

Samuels sticks up for besmirched for­mer foe — For­mer Labour Party min­is­ter Dover Samuels has stuck up for Richard Worth, say­ing he had advised him to “hold his head high and walk back into that Par­lia­ment”. Mr Samuels was the first min­is­ter dis­ci­plined under Helen Clark’s… [NZ Her­ald Pol­i­tics]

Dover Samuels has stuck up for Richard Worth, now there is a rec­c­om­men­da­tion I’d rather not have. Being sup­ported by another dod­dery old rooter with a weak bladder!

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Labour’s Honey trap revealed

by Whaleoil June 9, 2009

Labour has been run­ning a honey trap against Richard Worth. That much has become appar­ent as time has moved on with Phil Goff run­ning mas­sive inter­fer­ence and play­ing the long game.

Today Brian Rud­man all but outed the alleged vic­tim. I say alleged because as you are about to find out this woman is hardly the kind to hide her light under a bushel.

Let’s look at what we have been able to gar­ner so far.

  1. She is strik­ingly attrac­tive. Phil Goff’s description.
  2. Indian
  3. Labour Party mem­ber (although this is an exceed­ingly con­ser­v­a­tive description)
  4. Tried to gain selec­tion for Labour in an Auck­land seat.
  5. Received more than 100 pieces of com­mu­ni­ca­tion (yet to be prof­fered in evidence)she stood for can­di­dacy in Botany (matches Rudman’s descrip­tion), Indian, strik­ingly attrac­tive as well

Let’s exam­ine those 5 known points, in no par­tic­u­lar order. The 100 texts/messages…WTF…she must have been replying.….indeed from the Her­ald arti­cle this morn­ing it is clear that Richard Worth was reply­ing to some texts in return. Until those mes­sages are fur­nished then this increas­ingly looks like a honey trap.

The next things to look at are the strik­ingly attrac­tive, Indian, Labour party mem­ber and stand­ing for selec­tion but miss­ing out in 2008.

Strikingly AtractiveThere is only one per­son who fits that pro­file. That is party activist and wannabe can­di­date Nee­lam Choudary. She stood for selec­tion in Botany in 2008 after I har­pooned Bren­den Shee­han out of the can­di­dacy. She has numer­ous pho­tos of her in atten­dence with Helen Clark, Phil Goff, Rajen Prasad and other MP’s as well I have been sent a photo of her attend­ing a Labour Party organ­ised protest march on the supercity. She is also friends with Jor­dan Carter and Carmel Sepuloni.

Phil Goff needs to come clean now about the moti­va­tion of this woman send­ing and receiv­ing 100 of texts/messages over a period of months, all the while Phil Goff also knew about it and kept it quiet.  Remem­ber we have 60 txts and 40 phone con­ver­sa­tions. noone has 40 phone con­ver­sa­tions if they think they are lewd and offen­sive. Notwith­stand­ing the fact that Richard Worth is a sleaze and a sex pest and should be sacked, we now know that this woman is no ordi­nary Labour Party mem­ber, she is in fact an active and known poten­tial candidate.

It now appears that Labour have run a delib­er­ate and cal­cu­lated honey trap to catch Richard Worth out. Richard Worth also fit the pro­file as the intended tar­get because he is a ser­ial rooter. It was sim­ply a mat­ter of time before some­thing else came out and it looks like Labour held onto this until some­thing else related about Richard Worth broke into the news. That way they could insert their honey trap with much more credibility.

Sure Worth is a plonker but that is why Labour ran this sting, they knew they could get him. They just didn’t count on him being dumber than a sack of ham­mers but smart enough to make sure the texts sounded innocu­ous. If Phil Goff had anthing sala­cious he would have used it already not merely released invi­ta­tions to go swim­ing and travel to Goa.

Whilst the accu­sa­tions from the so far un-named Korean woman are under­go­ing Police inves­ti­ga­tion we will have to reserve judg­ment there, but as it stands, the Phil Goff orches­trated honey trap can now be called as a Labour sting.

Finally on the note of Phil Goff’s descrip­tion, I’ve seen worse, but “strik­ingly beautiful”?

Still, com­pared to Clark, Tizard or Kate Sutton .…


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Is it true?

by Whaleoil May 31, 2009

Is it true;

That Helen Clark threat­ened a polit­i­cal repeater with out­ing his secret love child to his part­ner if cov­er­age didn’t improve?

That Win­ston Ray­mond Peters, 64, unem­ployed of no fixed abode is con­sid­er­ing stand­ing for the Auck­land Mayoralty?

That Win­ston Ray­mond Peters, 64, unem­ployed of no fixed abode likes liv­ing close to drug dealers?

That a self styled tough guy MP attended a S&M party in Turangi dressed as a gimp?

That Richard “Water­gate” Northey is keep­ing a low pro­file just in case some affi­davits get leaked?

That every time Richard “Water­gate” Northey walks into a room with other coun­cil­lors they all cover up their papers?

 

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Knock me down with a feather

by Whaleoil May 21, 2009

I have pre­vi­ously cas­ti­gated Dr Brian Edwards for being the unof­fi­cial mouth­piece of Helen Clark along with Dr Peter Davis.

This morn­ing how­ever he has writ­ten a fine let­ter to the edi­tor of the NZ Her­ald. He obvi­ously wrote it before David “Black­wa­ter” Shearer’s lit­tle oops yes­ter­day though.

Brian Edwards writes

 


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Lee apology ‘shows character’

by Whaleoil May 14, 2009

Lee apol­ogy ‘shows char­ac­ter’ — A repen­tant Melissa Lee is bat­tling to get her cam­paign for the Mt Albert byelec­tion back on track after Prime Min­is­ter John Key was forced to inter­vene over com­ments she made at a pub­lic meet­ing. Ms Lee — a National List MP and… [NZ Her­ald Pol­i­tics]

Good on Melissa Lee for apol­o­gis­ing. It is cer­tainly refresh­ing to have MP’s pre­pared to admit mis­takes, some­thing we never saw for nine long years under Helen Clark.

Not even once can I recall any min­is­ter or MP apol­o­gis­ing. Helen Clark never apol­o­gises for call­ing Maori “haters and wreck­ers” or West Coast­ers “feral inbreds”. Trevor Mal­lard has never apol­o­gised for his “chin­less scarf wear­ers” com­ment. Michael only sort of apol­o­gised for his “rich prick”, his apol­o­gose was that it was never meant to be heard.

You see when you look at what Melissa Lee said, which was about crim­i­nals from South Auck­land it pales into insignif­i­cance against the utter­ings of Clark, Cullen and Mallard.

We will wait until hell freezes over before any of them apologise.

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Mt Albert Watch — The Air War

by Whaleoil May 13, 2009

Labour starts the Air WarThe Mount Albert by-election is very inter­est­ing right now.

Labour have gone dirty early and used their usual sus­pects like Trevor Mal­lard. This can mean only one thing, their inter­nal polling shows that Labour is in dan­ger of los­ing their strong­hold. Why no attacks on Rus­sel Nor­man? Only attacks on Melissa Lee. It is because Labour’s inter­nal polling show that Lee has bet­ter name recog­ni­tion than David “Black­wa­ter” Shearer and is a whisker away from wrest­ing the seat from Labour.

Labour also has very few of their own troops on the ground. This is despite the truck­ing in of the mer­ce­nary armies of the EPMU and SWFU peo­ple, resources and vehi­cles. Last night at the can­di­dates meet­ing Labour flunkies were seri­ously out num­bered by National and even the Greens had more peo­ple in atten­dence than Labour.

The vaunted elec­toral machine that Helen Clark was sup­posed to have is fail­ing to fire. There are bit­ter divi­sions in Labour.

So Labour are los­ing the ground war in a pin­cer move­ment by National and The Greens. As a result we see that they have started the guerilla wars, and yes­ter­day with their attacks in Melissa Lee through their prox­ies in the New Zealand media have started the air war.

As the Amer­i­cans found out in Viet­nam, air power alone can­not win the war. David “Black­wa­ter” Shearer of all the Labour party should know that to win you need troops on the ground. The sim­ple fact is though that Labour which Clark dragged left doesn’t like Phil Goff nor his mer­ce­nary lov­ing flunkie para­chuted in. It is only their dual gen­eral Andrew “Chicken” Lit­tle who has ordered in the union mer­ce­nar­ies that is keep­ing their pres­cence viable on the ground.

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Smart Thinking from Owen Glenn

by Whaleoil May 5, 2009

Remem­ber who Owen Glenn is?

He is the patriot that told the truth over dona­tions to Labour and NZ First when Helen Clark and Win­ston Peters refused to.

Now he has a sug­ges­tion to resolve the Fiji issue and it is a sug­ges­tion I believe has merit. As is usual with Owen Glenn he also has a sting.

Bil­lion­aire Owen Glenn says he would be happy to assist in medi­at­ing between New Zealand and Fiji, but New Zealand first needs to change its “holier than thou” attitude.

Mr Glenn — who owns a villa on the island of Mal­olo Lailai — told the Her­ald it would be up to the Gov­ern­ment if he took any part, and would depend on the man­date he had.

“It’s point­less wast­ing the commodore’s time. My opin­ion, if I have one, is to talk to him, find out what he’s try­ing to achieve and why, and put aside the fact it is not a demo­c­ra­t­i­cally elected Government.

“Nei­ther is China, but you don’t see New Zealand break­ing off its rela­tion­ships with China. Holier than thou on Fiji, but it’s quite happy to trade when it makes sense.”

Right now our approach to Fiji has been to fol­low the path that Helen Clark decided upon and that has been spec­tac­u­larly unsuc­cess­ful so far. We actu­ally noth­ing to lose right now in try­ing dif­fer­ent approaches.

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Phil Twyford — You are the Weakest Link, Goodbye

by Whaleoil May 5, 2009

Phil Twyford is the weakest linkFrom golden boy-wonder, inheriter of the Throne of Mt Albert to last cab off the rank, Phil Twyford has cer­tainly got the mes­sage from Phil Goff that his is a face that isn’t wanted. He is now to be con­sid­ered the weak­est link.

Helen Clark anointed Twyford as the man to take over her seat and Goff spiked that ambi­tion. He has now been placed right at the bot­tom of Labour’s rank­ings at num­ber 42.

Even junkie Darien Fen­ton is higher than him as is other notable fail­ures like George Hawkins and Mita Rir­inui, even new­comer MP Damien O’Connor is higher placed.

It seems that Goff has evis­cer­ated the Clark­ists. Known Clark­ist with the excep­tion of the Ginga Boy Won­der Dar­ren Hughes have been tossed aside. For­mer Clark staffer Grant Robert­son has sim­i­larly been cast down the listing.

Goff is stamp­ing his mark on the party in a most emphatic way. There will be plot­ting to be sure.

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