Prime Minister John Key has been cleared over accusations he misled Parliament when questioned about the blind trust that holds his assets.
Labour MP Pete Hodgson laid a complaint with Speaker Lockwood Smith claiming Mr Key misled Parliament - a serious offence.
Mr Hodgson alleged Mr Key misled the House when he said he didn't have access to his assets.
Mr Key rejected the allegations and released detailed legal advice about the Aldgate Trust.
Mr Key's office today released a letter from Dr Smith saying he had considered the complaint and found there was no case to answer.
John Key 2; Labour nil. Another attempted smear by Labour has ended in tears for the Red Team.
Oh dear; how sad; never mind! All we have to hope for now is that Labour will retain Phil Goff as Leader and Pete Hodgson as its chief strategist for the 2011 election.
UPDATE: Pete Hodgson is like a dog with a bone:
Mr Hodgson told reporters today he wasn't challenging the Speaker's ruling but the issue was not resolved.
Give it up Pete - he won, you lost; eat that! Sheesh, where have we heard those words before?
8 comments:
The egg on the dumspter diver will make his beard all messy!
Are you trying to put me off lunch, with that mental imagery?
Oh dear! The Whinge and Whine Party get another kick in the balls!
Seriously, Hodgson has a real, as in psychiatric illness, problem. He is obsessed with trying to pin some sort of dastardly deed on Key and the Nats, so much so that he is not doing what he is paid to do - oppose policy that is not good for the country.
Hodgson should go back to `talking to the animals'.
Oops forgot that is what the Labour caucus is made up of - sloths, liar birds, chameleons, and all sorts of other weird creatures.
I probably should have added pigs with snouts in every trough they can find to that list.
Hodgson, as a vet pdm, was trained to spend a lot of time with his arm inserted into large animals' rectums, trying to analyse what is going on with said animal.
Such training has served Hodgson well. He is able to examine closely the matter extracted from these forays into dark places that most of us would prefer not to enter.
Someone has to do it.
David
anon - shame he didn't stick his head in said orifices.
The look on his face, most of the time, suggests he has been close to doing just that.
David
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