Posts by simon g
Last ←Newer Page 1 2 3 4 5 Older→ First
-
Kyle, as I said (and you ignored), the news is *all* about the dead child's ID. That's why Garrett has been dumped. Public opinion. The rest is a fig leaf.
But if Hide believes Garrett committed perjury, then he has a duty to do a bit more than dab his eyes with a handkerchief at the loss of a colleague. Will he?
Anyway, the dumping machine is now at full speed. Now Hide says thanks for the money and the votes and the three strikes, but actually he shouldn't have got them. Garrett was a mistake, it turns out.
So, just to recap:
August - Hide needs Garrett's vote to ditch Roy, install Boscawen.
September - Hide ditches Garrett. Nice.
-
Come on, Kyle, that's the flimsiest of pretexts. Hide knows it, you must too. The talkback lines aren't running hot because of that "new" information/allegation, the public haven't even processed that yet.
It's all about the dead child. Garrett's not a complete fool, he knew it would look terrible if it came out. But Hide reassured him, with a forked tongue.
-
Hide speaks:
Act leader Rodney Hide has said he could no longer support David Garrrett following yesterday's revelations about information he gave to a court in 2005. ...
Hide said he called Garrett last night and said he was withdrawing his backing.
"I rang him from Hong Kong to say as leader I could not support him," he said in Wellington this afternoon.
(TVNZ)
Breathtaking. Just breathtakng.
Officer recruits soldier. Declares soldier to be his brother-in-arms. Instructs soldier to fight dirty. Says "Don't worry about Geneva Convention, nobody will know". Sends soldier into battle. Soldier hit. Officer finishes him off, from behind.
-
Who's Hilary Calvert? Somebody who can ring John Key tonight and say:
"You want Rodney? Then you don't want Tashkoff.
So here's the deal. For starters, an official delegation trip for two, to increase international cultural awareness, taking in Paris, Rome, Venice, maybe a Greek island, very nice this time of year ... "
-
I think the idea is to finish him off with a warm cuddle.
When the SST/ACT realize that the only people left expressing any sympathy for Garrett are those lily-livered liberals on Public Address ... well, then they'll want him gone too.
Rehabilitation Rocks! Save Dave!
-
You just can't trust these crims. Turns out Garrett denied the offence ... at first.
-
Further details released this afternoon by the court: apparently Garrett got the child's name from a cemetery. That's your TV picture, six o'clock tonight.
More soon, as they say ...
-
And where have the media been on this? It didn't even make the TV news tonight .
Politician says black is white, and all other politicians agree = No Story.
Politician says black is white, and some other politician jumps up and says "No, you fool, it's purple!" = Story.
The media seek fights, not truth.
(with apologies to the few exceptions, who seem to be found on blogs, not in MSM newsrooms)
-
Just a note for future historians, accessing this blog through their digital implants:
The day after New Zealand's Parliament cheerfully abolished itself, the country's biggest newspaper* spoke out, with a thundering editorial on the design of America's Cup yachts.
Democracy under a tack?
(*unfreeze grandpa, he'll explain) -
I just wanted to add my voice on this. It disturbs me greatly.
It's a familiar story from history: emergency, unanimity, no scrutiny. You don't need to be paranoid about Gerry Brownlee's secret Idi Amin fantasies - it's all too easy for things to go wrong even if the decision-makers have the very best of intentions. Or start with them, anyway.
Perhaps the most worrying aspect of this is that the fourth estate seem entirely indifferent to the implications. There may be honourable exceptions, but the coverage I've seen so far has not so much been dismissing any concerns, as not even acknowledging them in the first place.
We don't need to go Godwin here: monolithic moods that next-to-nobody dared question at the time range from beatifying Diana to locking up IRA pub bombers who weren't. And when you've seen that pattern repeated time and again, or at least read a little history, you can't help asking yourself how it happens.
Turns out, very easily indeed.