The plot thickens?

• Eddie
• 15 years ago
• Categories: richard worth
• Tags: key, worth

At his post-cabinet press conference, John Key continued to determinedly fly in a death spiral over the Worth affair. The journalists asked some probing questions on the sexual offending allegations and while Key still refuses to give us the full story, more details are emerging:

• Key has now confirmed that he did fire Worth, it wasn’t a resignation. They were lying on Wednesday.
• He also confirms that it wasn’t the alleged criminality in and of itself that got Worth fired.
• Key says if Worth is cleared of any criminality he still won’t have him back.
• He denied that it was because Worth didn’t tell him of the Police investigation that Key fired him.
• It wasn’t Worth’s behaviour when he was confronted on the issue that got him fired.
• It wasn’t abuse of drugs or alcohol.

According to Key, he recieved the information on the Police investigation on the Tuesday. His Chief of Staff went to him and ‘came back with some information but there were a lot of questions’. They went back to Worth to get answers to these questions ‘and they came back, some on the Wednesday, some on the Thursday, right through to the Sunday’. Looks like there was something about these answers that led Key to sack Worth but he won’t say what it was.

During the press conference, Key had a few little tizzies about having to answer all these questions as the journalists gradually tease out more of the story. Sorry but he’s the PM. New Zealanders expect answers from him about the conduct of his government. He should get used to it or go back to banking.

If he refuses to be open and honest, the journalists will keeping digging and asking questions to narrow down the range of possibilities until he is forced to admit the truth.