Pwned.

Breathtaking.

And Inventory’s comment below – Field held the casting vote, so of course HC is going softly.

This should destroy Labour. It won’t. But New Zealand would be better without such completely dishonest people anywhere near the levers of power.

What I don’t understand is how r0b and Eddie think they are helping things. What r0b and Eddie and other posters here are doing is creating a permanent billboard of poor judgment and very poor personal values. I just don’t see how that helps Labour – the best it can hope for is that the integrity on display here doesn’t spill over to them.

[lprent: Why exactly? We have posters from almost every hue on the 'unionist', 'left', 'centre' and 'green' opinions (often me for all of the latter three). Read the about. It tends to be a coincidence when Labour party or the Green party have similar opinions. Most of the time they're just trying to keep up with us.]

I’m not wasting any more energy on r0b or Eddie on this issue today. They can both go and stew in their collective sycophantic and dishonest revisionism. Anonymous dishonest cowards, both of them.

Eddie says “first came out” and means weeks later – which really matters when the question is Clark’s handling of the matter – but that’s ok.

Do you really think it’s not obvious what’s going on here?

“Crucially, he also held a casting vote in Parliament .”

Indeed – lose Field, lose power – that was the dilemma facing Clark in the aftermath of the 2005 election. So his corrupt practices were swept under the carpet, and Labour hoped it would all blow over. Thank goodness for Lockwood Smith’s persisitence, day after day after day…

care to provide a link to where Helen sacks him as a minister?

Field had ALREADY been dismissed, stood down, told to ‘take a break’,… whatever as Minister. That was a perfectly reasonable standard of response.

Field would not be the first politician to have made errors of judgement, been stood down to the Backbench and eventually rehabilitated if subsequent investigations had not been terminally damning.

It’s called not burning bridges until you have to.