Hide and English were never honest about their devious dealings and JK is as usual the vacuous simpleton. We all know what they stand for but they’re not honest about it.

Sharples and Turia, I just don’t know what they stand for- maybe just their platitudes?

I am confident that you are wrong. A Pakeha in his place would be getting much harsher condemnation from the media. There would be universal calls for the person to resign.

a bit like any criticism of the war is supporting the terrists

Millionaires are entitled to claim Child Benefit. It’s within the rules. Whether or not they claim it when they don’t need it and are not the people for which it was intended comes down to a matter of personal integrity.

Bowling underarm is allowed in a cricket match. It’s within the rules but whether or not you chose to bowl underarm and deny the opposition the opportunity to score a winning run is a matter of sportsmanship and integrity.

The acts of English, Hide and Harawera demonstrate to me that they have no personal integrity, and in my view integrity should be the most important facet of an MP’s character – but hey, that’s an old-fashioned view.

Rubbish. If an act defined as a crime has been committed it is not necessary to show it caused harm. If it were no drunk driver could be convicted until he’d actually hit someone!

Perhaps the mitigating factor in Clarke’s case was that the ‘fraud’ was carried out with benevolent intent and for no personal gain, but in my view that doesn’t excuse it. I wish fervently that she was still Prime Minister, but in my view she should have been prosecuted and discharged without conviction.

I’m talking about Ngapuhi and the Maori Party and people like me.

…everyone who has an interest in preserving advances in race relations…

Don’t you mean everyone who has an interest in sweeping historic (and recent) injustice against Maori under the carpet Marty?

Oh and 1+1=5.