Comments on: Rodney puts on his best chastened little boy voice

By: burt

burt — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:03:02 +0000

I agree. Hide of all people should have know better – for the sake of the ACT party and to demonstrate that politicians can’t do anything they want and just so “oops” he must resign.

By: randal

randal — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:59:43 +0000

well wodney is on a wun way twip to nowhere after this election anyway.

By: Dora Maar

Dora Maar — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:44:01 +0000

Regina,

Are the â€˜perks’ allowed or not?

This is the point.

You cannot â€˜expect’ a politician to be â€˜moral’ all the time. Politics is a dirty game; you have to be partially slimeball to be involved (in politics) anyway.

All politicians will work â€˜loopholes’.

Maybe the â€˜perks’ need to change. A lousy suggestion from John Key won’t do it.

Like Kitty said- it is his hypocrisy that â€˜entangles’ him.

By: Pat

Pat — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:14:00 +0000

It would be interested to know how much of Carter’s travel coincided with school holidays, since his partner is a school principal. Otherwise how did his partner manage so much time off to travel so often with Carter?

By: Tigger

Tigger — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:58:23 +0000

When did Carter organise his travel so he could take his partner to a wedding and also organise a fundraiser and slammed the PM behind their back then come out with meaningless apologies for some of his transgressions?

By: SAL

SAL — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:24:31 +0000

Ooops. I’m referring to Hide!

By: SAL

SAL — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:06:43 +0000

As someone who once knew him: be assured he would do the same thing all over again tomorrow if he thought he could get away with it.

By: Donnatella

Donnatella — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:58:25 +0000

â€˜his cock-up abroad’

ehehehe

By: the sprout

the sprout — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:14:50 +0000

exactly

By: prism

prism — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:05:54 +0000

Nice quote! This spending up reminds me of the attitudes that came to the fore from 1984. There was huge spending by someone I think took over the ARC. It came out that he took his wife on a jaunt overseas staying in VERY expensive hotels. It seems that the right have a double-faced attitude to government, first they hate and seek to subvert it, so it can’t do its actual job serving the people, second they despise it and try to rort it to prove that they are right in declaiming that its corrupt and inefficient.

By: the sprout

the sprout — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:53:16 +0000

i can’t help but think Bill’s going to pay for that one anyway,
a bit like how Bush paid for the rather premature “Mission Accomplished” stunt

By: the sprout

the sprout — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:50:11 +0000

that is true, but then Carter never made a central campaign platform of fighting MPs spending taxpayer funds for personal benefit.

former perk buster Hide did, hence the loud moans of hypocrisy.

i’m sure you already get all this eh ts? if not, re-read the last dozen posts or so for a bit of background

By: Armchair Critic

Armchair Critic — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:48:25 +0000

Next cab off the rank – Bill English pays for the free self-promotion he received.

By: tsmithfield

tsmithfield — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:45:44 +0000

At least Hide has apologised and paid the money back, which is a lot more than Carter has ever done.

By: the sprout

the sprout — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:22:59 +0000