Written By: - Date published: 10:09 am, October 30th, 2008 - 151 comments
Categories: john key, labour, Media -
Tags: h-fee
It turns out the Herald’s story about John Key’s H-fee involvement is a bust. Aside from Key not being straight with the dates he worked at Elders there isn’t anything firm to tie him to the actual fraud.
That’s not the story I expected given the Herald had decided to lead with this story on their website yesterday afternoon and hinted at a ‘smoking gun’. The reason it wasn’t the story I expected is because about a month ago we had material anonymously emailed to us that gave the background to the H-fee and included a series of posts outlining the issue. We ran the first of these posts but after trawling through the story and checking as much as we could we decided there simply wasn’t enough substance to run with. It now looks like we weren’t the only ones who were receiving this information.
There are still questions to be answered about this story, such as why did John get his dates wrong with the inoculation he took to the Herald in 2007 and why was the Herald promising audio of the 2007 interview yesterday and treating the story like a scoop when it knew there was no hard evidence?
But I expect these questions will be lost in the mishandling of the issue. My advice to Labour? Make sure you’ve got your ducks lined up before you go to the media, and when National is releasing stuff like their appalling prison policy don’t waste your time on blind alley stories like this one.
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Travellrev and Jo Zinny: I cannot follow much of your discussion but believe you need a big thankyou for your efforts. May it all turn to Gold.
Ianmac,
It’s for people like you that I do what I do.
Peace to you.
So it’s Ianmac’ s fault.
Naughty naughty HS!
Thanks Ianmac, maybe some day soon i can help a little in overcoming those hard to get points of understanding.. i admit they can appear the proverbial ‘blur’, but that’s up to me and finding a way… heh.
I can’t find who pointed to this from Anne Else on Scoop where she writes on all the many contradictions on What John Key has said to different audiences. No wonder his credibility is so shaky. Actually I feel a bit shaky when I consider the enormity of it!!!
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0810/S00433.htm
I can’t find who pointed to this from Anne Else on Scoop where she writes on all the many contradictions on What John Key has said to different audiences. No wonder his credibility is so shaky. Actually I feel a bit shaky when I consider the enormity of it!!!
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0810/S00433.htm
I can’t send this blocked by whom???
Anne Else says:
“In 2007 I heard John Key tell the Dominion Post that in 1987, “three months before any of those deals got decided [the H-fee deals, of $39 million on 11 January 1988 and $27 million on 7 September 1988, that put Allan Hawkins of Equiticorp in jail], I had left Elders. I never did the deals, I never knew about the deals, and wasn’t involved in them.” ”
I take it this means that Anne Else is putting in the parenthesis and it isnt another example of John Key changing his mind about when he found out about the first H-fee deal – like 20 years later.
HS,
You can get so fucked. Your not even funny anymore. I really have had it up to the whazoo with you.
You may not like what I write here, But I’m honest and committed and compassionate and that’s a whole lot more than I can say of you.
[lprent: Then don't listen to him. ]
Now now no need for that kind of un-civil attack.
Can I also please assure all readers that Eve has not and will never have it up the wahzoo from me.
[lprent: I've observed that you do needle her. Perhaps you get what you deserve?]
I’m not even sure what a wahzoo is.
Felix
Re – Wahzoo – I’ve just been informed it’s a male phallus of eight inches or more – bizarre !