So not only did he turn up to a Select committee meeting and essentially gag the Chief Executive of a Government Department, he has been found to have lied to Parliament and hence the people, well allegedly.
Full story here on Stuff
What a complete pillack, so typical of the big balls “I can do anything’ [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘National’
March 17, 2009
Mr Smith you naughty bugger
October 17, 2008
a top 10 list to make National cringe
At the end of the first week of campaigning, in which some were saying Key won the leaders debate, but spent the rest of the week defending allegations of lying or justifying his economic policies which have come under attack from more or less every right leaning economic and political commentator.
So at the end of [...]
October 13, 2008
Under National kiss goodbye…
Actually I’ve started a page all on it’s own for this, see above.
This list will increase as people contribute to it and more policy is announced.
Apart from;
Research & Development scheme – pissed off many many business already,
Half Kiwisaver entitlement,
the latest is;
“Greens lash Nats’ decision to axe insulation fund”
“Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons has lashed National’s [...]
August 3, 2008
National is taking the piss
MMP.
The first time in the history of elections in NZ, we managed to get proportionality into our government, and National thinks it’s time to give people the choice.
If people are sick of Politicians, it’s not the system of electing them which is at fault, it’s the calibre of politician which is at fault. And [...]
June 2, 2008
National Hates People – again.
[Or; The Kids Are Alright]
I have little time for the economic policies of the National Party.
Could someone please explain the fiscal responsibility of borrowing to give tax cuts, which will cause inflationary pressures on interest rates and thus any money they are borrowing to give to you, will be taken by some multinational bank through [...]
April 1, 2008
We are happy with our hospitals
This from the Herald
Patient satisfaction in New Zealand’s public hospitals has reached near record levels, but emergency department waiting times have room to improve, a Government report shows.
The Ministry of Health’s latest Hospital Benchmark Information quarterly report shows overall patient satisfaction levels were the second highest since reports began in 2000 , with a level [...]
March 16, 2008
When one’s ego is just too big to see the picture
A very typical ploy of the oh-so affected middle class intelligentsia these days is to decry the death of freedoms, muddled up with imagery of cottonwool nanny states resembling a kinder Plunketesque NAZI state.
The latest of these concerned individuals to step up to the plate to have a moan about the overpowering state is the [...]
February 13, 2008
what was I just saying…
In the finest tradition of rampaging out of control youths, rabid dogs attaching all in sundry and seismic wave of home invasions, I have picked up the ball and run with my topic de-jour.
The bloody polls that they run on the newspapers, take this little gem.
Where is the “Income boost via increased industry productivity” option, [...]
February 2, 2008
Herald’s neutrality?
First off, lets get our limitations and bias out front.
I was once a avid hearld.co.nz reader. I am now a herald.co.nz skeptic.
