What should Labour do about Brownlee breaching Airport security?

Written By: - Date published: 2:25 pm, July 24th, 2014 - 65 comments
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What should Labour do about Gerry’s Airport security breach?

Nothing.  It was a mistake.  There are more important things to discuss like child poverty, unemployment, our polluted rivers, our malfunctioning ETS, the loss of civil and political freedoms, our appalling domestic violence statistics, burgeoning crown debt …

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  1. shorts 1
    24 July 2014 at 2:27 pm

    totally – its the Hauiti distraction for this afternoon

  2. Enough is Enough 2
    24 July 2014 at 2:30 pm

    Absolutely Agree Micky. We have to avoid all further distractions.

    A clear directive should have gone out from Cunliffe’s office to every candidate and staffer that this is a nothing issue and to focus on our core messages and policies.

    This almost looks like a Crosby Textor distraction grenade to steal headlines for a day or so.

  3. Skinny 3
    24 July 2014 at 2:35 pm

    If that was you or I we would probably cop a taser shot up the arse be detained & face a grilling which would probably end up with being arrested and face prosecution. I heard he was busy stuffing his face at the airport cafe and missed his calling.

    Key should sack the greedy bugger he is a lousy Minister of both Transport & Christchurch rebuild.

    • KevinWelsh 3.1
      24 July 2014 at 2:51 pm

      I think it is all lies.

      Unless there was free pies on the plane, no way was he running.

  4. Pete 4
    24 July 2014 at 2:43 pm

    Agreed. It’s a distraction. As much as I don’t like the man, mistakes can sometimes happen. There are plenty of other things he can be criticised for.

    • greywarbler 4.1
      24 July 2014 at 3:52 pm

      @ Pete 2.43
      Such as? Name your favourites.

      • Tom Jackson 4.1.1
        24 July 2014 at 4:59 pm

        Being a tremendous assmonkey?

        • greywarbler 4.1.1.1
          24 July 2014 at 6:56 pm

          @Tom Jackson 4.59
          That unfortunate condition you described isn’t enough to make Brownlee uncomfortable in his seat in Christchurch that The Comfortable there keep gifting him. He’s our boy, they say, and we are Loyal despite anything that people with discernment might say.

          He is Deputy Leader so apparently just the right boy to do the bidding for the Casino Crooks. How would it be if Key escaped from NZ to his home in the usa and they made Brownlee PM, he’d be like that clown in Toronto. And what if they had Paula Bennett as Deputy. What a formidable pair they would be in size and top down domination.

  5. fender 5
    24 July 2014 at 2:44 pm

    We should just celebrate the fact that he didn’t push anybody down the stairs, on this occasion anyway.

    • Michael 5.1
      24 July 2014 at 7:53 pm

      Perhaps he is able to learn from previous cockups. Maybe he’ll learn from this one, too?

  6. One Anonymous Bloke 6
    24 July 2014 at 2:49 pm

    What’s wrong with the guy who has overall responsibility for airport security opening any damn door he wants to? Storm in a teacup, waste of energy.

  7. appleboy 7
    24 July 2014 at 2:49 pm

    This is a scam. A contrived non event turned into a ‘sign’ that the govt is honest and knows when to apologise – oh the irony after Key’s lack of apology on much more serious matters of late. Pathetic see through crap.

    A resignation was never for one moment intended or would have been accepted.

    An empty PR scam job – just like John Key himself and his bunch of cronies.

  8. freedom 8
    24 July 2014 at 2:50 pm

    Brownlee in the House
    “I’ll try to run through this question if I can” 😆

  9. Jester 9
    24 July 2014 at 2:52 pm

    Perhaps David could issue a formal apology on Gerrys behalf?

  10. Ancient Ruin 10
    24 July 2014 at 2:57 pm

    Maybe not hear anything more about Helen Clark’s high speed motorcade, hopefully?

  11. infused 11
    24 July 2014 at 2:59 pm

    Look.

    He was in a hurry. There was only one pie left at Mojo before the flight took off, and he had to have it.

    I’m sure you would all do the same, for the last pie.

  12. Hami Shearlie 12
    24 July 2014 at 3:00 pm

    Bet he was wearing an ugly blue scarf too!!

  13. Richard 13
    24 July 2014 at 3:02 pm

    Just let him be treated like anybody else who breaches airport security. Prosecution? Banned from an airline? What is the normal procedure for the rest of us plebs?

    • One Anonymous Bloke 13.1
      24 July 2014 at 4:04 pm

      No. Extra training for the employee who wrongly opened the door, no penalty for the passenger, contempt and ridicule for whining authoritarian followers.

    • Tracey 13.2
      24 July 2014 at 4:35 pm

      make the exit doors narrower

    • Stuart Munro 13.3
      24 July 2014 at 4:51 pm

      Equal treatment does have a superficial appeal – but think of the dreadful trauma you’d be inflicting on the poor sod who had to cavity search him!

    • Rob 13.4
      24 July 2014 at 9:27 pm

      ideal response make him fly jetstar!

  14. McFlock 14
    24 July 2014 at 3:03 pm

    Yeah – nothing. He offers to resign one portfolio, doesn’t take a hit in salary, and then claims a nactoid has finally shown some personal responsibility.

    Meanwhile, dunnokeyo refuses to make the apology he said he’d make.

  15. Descendant Of Sssmith 15
    24 July 2014 at 3:05 pm

    They should simply say it’s a breach of airport security that you would expect any New Zealander not to make. They would expect him to be treated in the same way as any other New Zealander who breached airport security and would expect the proper authorities to follow the normal process.

    Then they should say he’s a dick with a sense of self-importance.

  16. Tom Jackson 16
    24 July 2014 at 3:16 pm

    I don’t understand why he was taking a plane. Doesn’t he have his own sail barge parked at the Great Pit of Carkoon?

  17. disturbed 17
    24 July 2014 at 3:27 pm

    National spinners have more tricks than anyone, and less morals to run a clean election.
    Expect much more junk reporting ahead, as the media hypes the commonwealth games infill with shoddy distracting trivia, that no one with sanity would recognise this as an election process now closing fast with than two months from a so called election.
    It is simply an election run by media, and not for informed consent and benefit of the voting public. Worst election cycle we have ever seen in our 70yrs of life here, it is disgraceful, and opposition should be all joining together to boycott this election media fraud by declaring the election null and void until the media gives an equal respect to all parties of full unbiased media overage or cancel the election clock.

    • One Anonymous Bloke 17.1
      24 July 2014 at 3:59 pm

      If there are enough voices to give such a call any weight, there’s enough votes to dump this corrupt government.

  18. MrSmith 18
    24 July 2014 at 3:33 pm

    A little humor might be good, something like ‘I’m sure the people of ChCh would be happy to look the other way and get him out of here and on any plane ASAP.’

  19. Clemgeopin 19
    24 July 2014 at 4:15 pm

    While it was a totally stupid and irresponsible mistake to have been made by the cabinet minister of transport /airport security, I do commend the ‘Very Hurry Gerry’ for his dexterity, maneuverability, athleticism and sleek body to have been able to quickly wriggle through the narrow exit turnstile. Love to watch the video if there is one!

  20. disturbed 20
    24 July 2014 at 4:24 pm

    OAV you said; after we called for opposition Parties to Boycott the election process due to the biased media

    “If there are enough voices to give such a call any weight, there’s enough votes to dump this corrupt government.”

    We see so much diversion in the press that this may actually be swaying people to assume everything is honkey shonkey dorey as Key wants you to believe. People are very gullible.
    Case in point.

    John Key was the master “smiling assassin” (called) who was given the job at Merrill lynch to sack hundreds of staff and make then feel good about this, so we do see a parallel here.
    Be warned things are about to crash again if he doesn’t sell all the country firstly, then we wont need the Government at all will we.

  21. TeWhareWhero 21
    24 July 2014 at 4:34 pm

    They should issue a statement giving thanks for the fact that no security or other airport personnel had got in Gerry’s way as he rushed to the aircraft.

  22. Nick K 22
    24 July 2014 at 5:30 pm

    Ask him if he stands by his statement that he asked the airport attendant: “I said to the guy ‘look we’re in a terrible hurry can we get through here’ he said ‘okay’

    Clearly it’s false. With his size, Gerry could never have got through any door.

  23. AB 23
    24 July 2014 at 5:58 pm

    Well everyone knows he has a short fuse. Everyone knows that he belongs to the National Party and therefore has a raging sense of entitlement and an unshakeable belief in his own superiority over ordinary folks. He is, to put it simply, a bit of a dick.
    In the delusional world of right-wing ‘thought’ of course he is not a dick. He is a ‘high-achiever’, maybe even a ‘wealth-creator’ or a ‘leader’ and simply exercising the prerogative of his personal ‘excellence’. In a similar vein – it always seems to be expensive European marques parked illegally outside the better eateries in town.

    But no – a couple of well-aimed jokes and let it rest. No faux-outrage required.

  24. phillip ure 24
    24 July 2014 at 6:11 pm

    a clear case of entitle-itis..

  25. Weepus beard 25
    24 July 2014 at 6:18 pm

    Brownlee makes Aaron Gilmore look measured. This sounds like a real “don’t you know who I am” moment.

    Stuff is looking for witnesses so I hope they come forward.

  26. Don't worry be happy 26
    24 July 2014 at 6:19 pm

    Forget what should the Labour Party do…what are the cops doing? Imagine if Hone had barged through….or Cunliffe….

  27. Hami Shearlie 27
    24 July 2014 at 6:26 pm

    So Gerry Brownlee went the wrong way for his own convenience? Sums up the National Government perfectly!!

    • Lloyd 27.1
      25 July 2014 at 8:58 pm

      Total agreement Hami Shearlie.

      Labour should really hammer Brownlee on this issue, as it sums up his political career. Ignore any rules if they inconvenience you and if you can’t, then get them changed by denigrating them and anybody who supports those rules.

      For example:

      • who got rid of regional government on Canterbury?
      • Who is stuffing up the Christchurch rebuild?

      -Who wants the Basin flyover so he can get to his Christchurch flight 30 seconds faster?

      Why – Gerry wants it now – greedy selfish behavior. Pushy bully behavior. Not the sort of behavior you want from someone running the country.

  28. North 28
    24 July 2014 at 7:21 pm

    Labour should do nothing……except, from time-to-time, to mock the hell out of this patently cynical ‘resignation’ and “no no no” bullshit.

    It’s a put-up job with TheGodKey faking that Bunter is too big, sorry, too valuable and high performing, to lose. “The Nation Needs Him.” Also to try to paint himself ‘presidential’. It’s bullshit and it screams and it stinks.

    Does make you picture the furore there’d be if Cunliffe did it though doesn’t it ? Fuckwit Gower’d be calling him a terrorist.

  29. karol 29
    24 July 2014 at 7:27 pm

    If the unflattering and anti-Gerry comments & jokes from work colleagues today are anything to go by, Labour should do nothing.

    Gerry is looking like he’s done himself a lot of damage with the public.

  30. Mr Mojo Marvel 30
    24 July 2014 at 7:33 pm

    Those security doors,

    They’re really big,

    I mean really fxxkxx big yeah,

    I mean so big you could fit a trolley bus full of narcissistic self immolating national supports side ways through those doors.

    I mean you could get like, 57.5 Jabba the Hutts yelling in unison

    “Han, Mah kee cheezay. Hassatamooma koh kee malyaloongee”

    through those fxxkxxx doors.

    I heard on the grape vine someone only just (after having to drop their donut) squeaked through those fxxkxxx doors .

    Apparently no alarms were heard due to the effective bulk of the said assailant had created a “vacuum pump effect” while squeeeeeezinnng through said really, really big fxxxkxxxx doors

    Anyone know ?

  31. Clemgeopin 31
    24 July 2014 at 7:51 pm

    Gerry ‘offers’ his resignation. Key says some nice things for camera but says, ‘won’t accept resignation’

    Ok, so now the ball is in Gerry’s court.

    If Gerry is really sorry for his seriously stupid illegal behaviour, he can STILL resign on his own anyway, irrespective of what Key says, can’t he?!

  32. millsy 32
    24 July 2014 at 9:15 pm

    If we sacked every person in this country for going through the wrong door, unemployment would be through the roof.

  33. JK 33
    24 July 2014 at 9:17 pm

    Isn’t the Brownlee so-called security scare a distraction from the real story of HOW did Shonkey’s pic get photoshopped onto the All Blacks ? That’s the real story ….. it’ll stay around for months in bookshops, dairies, supermarket shelves …. brilliant bit of pr – and of course, totally immoral, unethical – call it what you like …. but this is ShonKey at his best !!

    • teWhareWhero 33.1
      24 July 2014 at 10:11 pm

      Email Rugby News and ask them whose idea it was to write an article about the PM as the AB’s ‘No 1 fan’ and whose idea it was to photoshop him into a photo with 4 ABs. You can also ask why they claim that the article and cover pic has nothing whatsoever to do with the election. You can find contact details on their website.

      Email the ABs management and ask them when they gave approval for this, and whether they had considered the benefits to the National Party of the PM’s association with the ABs two months out from the election.

      Email John Key’s office and ask whether they considered the ethics / legality of this.

  34. Clemgeopin 34
    24 July 2014 at 10:00 pm

    Here is a challenge to any worthy investigative in the country to actually try the same Gerry B stunt at that or at any other airport and see what consequences follow! [Not in USA, Israel, Russia or Saudi but just here in NZ will do]

  35. Clemgeopin 35
    24 July 2014 at 10:27 pm

    A limerick:

    da DUM da da DUM da da DUM
    da DUM da da DUM da da DUM
    da DUM da da DUM
    da DUM da da DUM
    da DUM da da DUM da da DUM

    Jerry in a mad dash hurry,
    Jumped an exit gate no wurry,
    He huffed and he puffed,
    Then bluffed and he stuffed
    Got caught and quickly said surry!

    [See of you can write another]

    • Clemgeopin 35.1
      25 July 2014 at 9:15 pm

      What! No one?
      Ok, here is another limerick effort:

      There once was a man named Gerry
      Claimed he was in a great hurry
      So fooled a poor sod
      To open back door!
      Sod in crap, Gerry, Key merry!

  36. SouthDeezNutz 36
    24 July 2014 at 10:41 pm

    Brownlee’s a dick, sure, but what’s with the fat shaming?

  37. Adrian 37
    24 July 2014 at 11:58 pm

    Key was being torn a new arsehole on the comments for this stunt. that jersey is supposed to be earned, the scrawny little sniveler has never played a game of footy in his life, now he’s “Leader of the Pack”, this is a “jump the shark” moment, or a Kim Jung Ill one .
    I bet DC would like to meet him in an opposing scrum especially how they used to play senior rugby in South Canterbury. I’d pay more money to see that than for a test match.

    • Once was Pete 37.1
      25 July 2014 at 9:13 am

      Make up your mind. He has either played a game of rugby or he hasn’t and in any event who cares?

  39. Once was Pete 39
    25 July 2014 at 9:10 am

    I see why you would say that. It is just another distraction, but personally, I feel that at the very least he should have his ample bum kicked publicly by Key over this.
    You can’t excuse this. He should have known better.

  40. Clemgeopin 40
    25 July 2014 at 9:53 am

    This incident in parallel terms is somewhat like
    a minister of health infected with some serious disease flouting safety contamination rules just because he is ……whatever
    or the minister of police or justice firing a firearm in an unauthorized location without a license just because she is…..whatever!

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  • Government consults on extending coastal permits for ports
    RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop and Transport Minister Simeon Brown have today announced the Coalition Government’s intention to extend port coastal permits for a further 20 years, providing port operators with certainty to continue their operations. “The introduction of the Resource Management Act in 1991 required ports to obtain coastal ...
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  • Inflation coming down, but more work to do
    Today’s announcement that inflation is down to 4 per cent is encouraging news for Kiwis, but there is more work to be done - underlining the importance of the Government’s plan to get the economy back on track, acting Finance Minister Chris Bishop says. “Inflation is now at 4 per ...
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  • School attendance restored as a priority in health advice
    Refreshed health guidance released today will help parents and schools make informed decisions about whether their child needs to be in school, addressing one of the key issues affecting school attendance, says Associate Education Minister David Seymour. In recent years, consistently across all school terms, short-term illness or medical reasons ...
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  • Unnecessary bureaucracy cut in oceans sector
    Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones is streamlining high-level oceans management while maintaining a focus on supporting the sector’s role in the export-led recovery of the economy. “I am working to realise the untapped potential of our fishing and aquaculture sector. To achieve that we need to be smarter with ...
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  • Patterson promoting NZ’s wool sector at International Congress
    Associate Agriculture Minister Mark Patterson is speaking at the International Wool Textile Organisation Congress in Adelaide, promoting New Zealand wool, and outlining the coalition Government’s support for the revitalisation the sector.    "New Zealand’s wool exports reached $400 million in the year to 30 June 2023, and the coalition Government ...
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  • Removing red tape to help early learners thrive
    The Government is making legislative changes to make it easier for new early learning services to be established, and for existing services to operate, Associate Education Minister David Seymour says. The changes involve repealing the network approval provisions that apply when someone wants to establish a new early learning service, ...
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