Posts by Paul Campbell
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Hard News: Barclay and arrogance, in reply to Sacha,
Oh for heaven’s sake – since Bill English has been in parliament he’s voted on changes to section 216B of the Crimes Act in 1997, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2009 and 2012 – how can he possibly claim he doesn’t know it exists?
Unless of course that is he regularly votes for things he doesn’t understand, and doesn't read – but that would make him an incompetent MP
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So English is reported in today's paper as trying to excuse Barclay with "he didn't know it's illegal" of course for us plebs "ignorance of the law is no excuse" ....
However if you become an MP surely the first thing you do is sit down and wade through the entire corpus of NZ law - I know it's big and it's hard, but as an MP the law of the land is your thing, sort of a sacred thing that's now in your trust.
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well in some sense it's a good thing, the guy obviously has a character flaw that doesn't make for being a good MP - he also has the safest seat in parliament, he could have been there for 40 years
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I'm still wondering why Barclay wasn't kicked out a year ago? and why he wasn't kicked out today? he's a nothing, a kid with no real-world experience, in the safest National seat in the country, are there bodies buried in Dipton? does he manage the bags-of-cash drops from the tobacco companies? inherited pictures of Bill and a sheep? anyone got any other ideas?
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also suggested elsewhere "an engorgement"
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A friend suggests "phalanx" as the correct collective noun
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You have to include the original source ....
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Up Front: What's the Big Idea?, in reply to Rich Lock,
you can avoid that problem, “she threw a dildo, an then another one, then a whole ….” .... oh crap what’s the collective noun ….
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um something, something, something about whether we need net neutrality laws in NZ something something
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A friend pointed out that a media monopoly means the end of competitive journalism, there will no longer be scoops if there's no one to scoop
