Comments on: David Farrar’s conflict of interest

By: Boag on way, Farrar to follow? « The Standard

Boag on way, Farrar to follow? « The Standard — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:59:51 +0000

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By: lukas

lukas — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:22:06 +0000

heh! I work for myself so that is not an issue… the young one is my temporary sales manager, just don’t tell the labour inspector! Yeah, we’ve called him Micah, both Mum and bub are well and my sleep is not too disturbed

By: BLiP

BLiP — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:15:19 +0000

Wouldn’t it have been good to have that paid parental leave Labour had up the pipeline for right about now?

(No personal offence intended – just having a wee dig. Hope mum and the baby are both doing well. Have you chosen a name . . . not John, I hope)

By: lukas

lukas — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:08:17 +0000

Interesting to see how much IA does spend on polling though…. http://www.parliament.nz/NR/rdonlyres/63C7A581-D7BE-4BCB-BE28-8A721281FC7B/118698/49SCGA_EVI_00DBSCH_FIN_9386_1_A21680_DepartmentofI.pdf

By: lukas

lukas — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:07:23 +0000

Interesting to see how much money Internal Affairs actually does spend on polling though… http://www.parliament.nz/NR/rdonlyres/63C7A581-D7BE-4BCB-BE28-8A721281FC7B/118698/49SCGA_EVI_00DBSCH_FIN_9386_1_A21680_DepartmentofI.pdf

By: Marty G

Marty G — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:04:03 +0000

We typically don’t have the 100+ threads that Farrar gets but we have about as many comments over all. We’ve had 340 today, he’s had 350.

By: logie97

logie97 — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:57:16 +0000

wow. readers of this site must have noted that most postings have around 50 comments. Mention the Penguin here, or question his behaviour, and his lapdogs swell those numbers to Kiwiblog size – 160 and rising. David Farrar opines on everything from education standards, to the Rugby World Cup and now seems to have a ‘comfortably-too-regular” spot on the Panel on Afternoons on RNZ”. (One wonders whether Crosby/Textor have helped organise this.) David Farrar courts comment. He therefore deserves all the scrutiny he attracts.

By: felix

felix — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:40:33 +0000

Farrar and Cactus are too busy making shit up “spend their time trying to dig any info”.

By: peterthepeasant

peterthepeasant — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:36:57 +0000

When both Hooton AND O’Sullivan “out” Farrar one has to suspect a
“set up” or perhaps “sour grapes”.

By: peterthepeasant

peterthepeasant — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:33:37 +0000

When both Hooton AND O’Sullivan “out” Farrar something is being set up.
Could be Farrar undercut them.

By: peterthepeasant

peterthepeasant — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:27:42 +0000

Surely the whole point is Hooton and O’Sullivan “outing” Farrar?
What is going on here?
Those three in cahoots spells trouble.

By: Jared

Jared — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:21:44 +0000

Its a nice line to run, although the same level of scrutiny was never placed on Labour when they were in power. The right blogosphere doesn’t have ardent activists like the standard, they have bloggers like Farrar and Cactus Kate, but they didn’t usually spend their time trying to dig any info they could on labour to the same extent. I.e expenses, and I should note that Phil Goff while critical of Bill English for double dipping told the public that he was in the process of selling his apartment he was renting out in Wellington yet a quick search of Mansfield Towers Limited on the companies register and the percuniary interests register shows he is still a shareholding tenant and has been for quite some time while still claiming an allowance for a property from Parliamentary Services afaik. Double dipping much? Infact Trev Mallard banned me from RedAlert for even broaching the topic, I had to get Chris Hipkins to unban me, yet they were and still are happy to attack Bill English.

By: George.com

George.com — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:16:14 +0000

There are at least 2 arguments (blue herrings) in defence of Farrar here. The contract is under 10k and labour may have done it themselves.

Neither blue herring however satisfactorily dispell the question mark of a conflict of interest over the Public Service-Farrar-National contract.

On the question however of ‘labour might have done it’. The answers is simple.

One, had Labour been found doing this the right wing would have been howling for blood so they need to pull in their heads and get off their moralising high horses.

Second, National campaigned on a ‘higher standard’ of behaviour. If they are doing the same as labour might have, they have failed in their election pledge.

The potential conflict of interest however still remains.

Rob

By: Killinginthenameof

Killinginthenameof — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:51:31 +0000

A mixture of young nats and some rather attractive school girls, the beauty of which is they never seem to understand the political sensitivity of what they are doing, and all too happy to talk about it to an inquiring pol sci student.

By: The Voice of Reason

The Voice of Reason — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:12:51 +0000

People who agree with Sprout’s position: lots. People who agree with Gosman’s position: … Hello, anyone out there? Helloooooooooooo?

Still waiting for you to provide the link to Farrar’s post on his work for Internal Affairs or were you hoping it’d just magic itself into existance?