Environment Canterbury (ECan) narrowly escaped Government intervention over its performance 18 months ago.
Complaints about the regional council were taken to the Labour Government but former Prime Minister Helen Clark would not act on them in the countdown to the 2008 election.
Labour Environment Minister Trevor Mallard, who had received the complaints from Canterbury MPs, the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) and others, including some of the region's mayors, told The Press yesterday "everyone knew there was a problem there".
When former Labour minister Dr Michael Bassett said early in 2008 that Labour would do "whatever it takes" to win the election, we guess that this is the kind of thing he was talking about. We can only wonder what other skeletons will come to life and burst forth from their closets with the passage of time, and the departure to foreign climes of the former Dear Leader.
Oh; Trevor Mallard knew all about it too: quelle surprise! We wonder if that means that HE is on the list to receive The Text Message from NYC when The Night of the Long Knives arrives!
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Clark is on record from early on in her political career as saying she would do whatever it takes to gain power.
Evidence that ethics play no part in socialist campaigns is surely not new to anybody who claims an interest in the mechanics of politics.
Clark's political statements in the Holmes interview on Q&A recently demonstrate, yet again, that convention and ethics are for losers.
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