Well, you are clearly of the throw enough mud and see if any sticks variety. There is scuttlebutt around just about everyone in politics. People who don't like wallowing in pig**** generally ignore it. You seem to relish it.
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Well, you are clearly of the throw enough mud and see if any sticks variety. There is scuttlebutt around just about everyone in politics. People who don't like wallowing in pig**** generally ignore it. You seem to relish it.
Luxon thinks he's going to be in government for 10 terms.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-dai...outh-seat-backQuote:
Investors have lots of other options, and they can go to lots of other countries around the world which give them a lot more clarity about what the rules are, and in our case we haven’t done that,” he said. “It’s about giving that certainty back, so investors can make long-run decisions knowing that yes, we are going to be committed to gas for several decades.”
I know he's new to the job but jeepers. Born to rule mentality. :\
Every time the cases of Uffindell bullying, intimatory & mysoginistic behavoir comes up, & Luxon's refusal to release either the QC's report or importantly the Terms of Reference she was restricted by, we get another case of "whataboutism" instead of being able to look at National's handling of this in an objective light.
It is mind boggling Luxon would not even let his Deputy see the report let alone any members of Caucus & strongly indicates the report contradicts Luxon's own contruction of the timeline when he knew of events. Further inference of this is due to the known fact details which were considered important for him to see, were passed to his office.
For Luxon to choose to weather the ensuing storm rather than release even a summary of the report (& terms of reference), which didn't exonerate Uffindell but simply said the events in the flat did not happen exactly as described (which sounds guilty by another name) shows there must be something which could damage his own credibility.
On the other hand a lot of the details about the Labour Summer Youth Camp scandal, concerning the young man (20 year old's drunken groping at a party) were publicised & a summary of the recommendations of the report released & Labour went on to institute them. The courts had granted permanent name suppression as well. And rumours about who's son he was, was just mischievous stirring.
Uffindel is a sitting MP representing a large number of constituents.
MP's are allowed to have made mistakes in their past, but there is something important, really important about "character" .
Personally I didn't think anyone who has enjoyed inflicting pain on another vulnerable human being, & gone on to repeat that sort of intimidatory terrifying behaviour on a vulnerable young women to the extend he did at university, has the right character to be an MP charged with making the laws of this country.
And there we go. The real Labour agenda. To relitigate something already dismissed. Keep rolling in the pig**** Blue Skies. You know who ends up smelling.
Shall we start relitigating Trevor Mallard's despicable false rape allegation that destroyed a man's career and got the taxpayer to pickup the tab? Now that WAS indisputable. And Mallard's equally despicable leader who then gives him a cushy retirement number? Ardern is the worst kind of hypocrite this country has had the misfortune to be led by. The sooner she is gone the better off we will all be....even Labour. She is a stain that will take a lot of time to remove. I can remember all the way back to Holyoake when I was little, and I can't think of a PM who has been as divisive and repugnant as Ardern. Yes, even more so than Muldoon!
Classic 'Whataboutism' .
Mallard has zero relevance to Uffindell's case. If you want to bring up Mallard, you're on the wrong thread. Mallard's Labour, discuss it on the Labour thread. He has nothing to do with National or Uffindell.
In debating & also relationship counselling they talk about "ring fencing your arguments" i.e. if you keep drawing out grievances from your 'bag of grievances' which are unrelated to the subject, you will lose the debate, never be able to have sensible discussions & not have very healthy relationships.