Breaking news, at both the Herald and Stuff websites:
Labour MP Chris Carter has told media he travelled "excessively" as a minister and shouldn't have taken his partner with him as often as he did.
Carter also told media he would be returning to Parliament next Tuesday, having spent the past week working in his Te Atatu electorate, after his position within the party was thrown into doubt following his party demotion.
Mr Carter lost his foreign affairs portfolio and was bumped down the Labour Party list for failing to front up and properly apologise over his credit card spending as a minister.
He told media today he had had time to reflect and "sincerely" apologised to the taxpayers of New Zealnd for the distraction he had caused.
He confirmed he would be standing in his Te Atatu electorate.
Why do the words "yeah right" keep ringing in our ears? And does this mean that the faction of Labour's caucus loyal to the former leader has exerted pressure on the current leader to acquiese?
Watch this space ...
11 comments:
The words 'yeah right' keep ringing in your ears because you are not such a good writer. A blogger obsessed with political and sporting trivialities does not a wordsmith make. So you employ a well known line from a brand of the worst tasting beer, using poor grammar to appeal to the intelligence of your readers. Which is likely an oxymoron.
And yet another self inflated ego strolls past Keeping Stock.
Goff will come out of this very badly, methinks. He has been done like a dinner by Carter and Clark and now the world knows it. That little throw away remark about having phone Helen Clark had Clark's fingerprints all over it.
This is indeed the bastion of self-inflated egos. You hit the proverbial on the cliched, even though you omitted a hyphen.
I agree Adolf. And I wonder now, with Shane Jones being damaged goods if New York has sent instructions that David Cunliffe is the "annointed one".
You may have seen my post earlier in the week, where Cunliffe in a supplementary question gave Bill English a free hit at Phil Goff. It was either incredibly bad judgment by Cunliffe, or a sign that it is "game on".
Do you include yourself in the self-inflated ego department Anon, or are you a superior species to us mere mortals?
Anon keeps criticsing this blog, but they also keep returning...yep I think Cunliffe will roll Goff, with Clark's backing. Game on, go Labour (Australia...)...! Poor Kevin.
I note that Carter did not apologise for the blatant personal use of his Ministerial credit card. Does Goff now condone that?
Adolf stop trying to lure INV2's stalker away from him. GD tried and obviously failed.
Lighten up about the anonymous stalker pdm - he/she adds some colour to my obviously boring existence!
What a strange apology from Carter.
Labour MP Chris Carter has told media he travelled "excessively" as a minister and shouldn't have taken his partner with him as often as he did.
So he suggests even he thinks his trips were pointless and of no value to the tax payer.
Either that, or it is an admission that he shouldnt have planned his trips around the school holidays (his partner is a school teacher) specifically so that his partner could share overseas spa baths with him and collect the baubles of office (the "office" being his local electorate committee chairman)
or is that the "bubbles" of office....
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