Independent MP Chris Carter has had to cancel his Christmas holiday after 3 News learned he had been planning to have it paid by the taxpayer.
Mr Carter and his partner managed to book an international holiday using the MPs' travel perk right before Parliament's Speaker, Lockwood Smith, banned MPs from taking private travel with public money.
Chris Carter's partner Peter Kaiser arrived at Parliament this morning to help tidy up a few loose ends but he didn't want to talk about a Christmas trip the pair had planned.
Mr Carter and Mr Kaiser were booked to leave Auckland on December 29, flying business class via Singapore to Colombo and Sri Lanka.
The estimated cost of their flights is $13,902 – 90 percent picked up by the taxpayer.
The pair were planning on holidaying with British MP Ben Bradshaw and his partner but an hour after 3 News confronted Mr Kaiser, Mr Carter sent a text saying the trip was cancelled and he wasn't going to front.
It seems that Chris Carter is a slow learner, and that his case of entitleitis has flared up again. The public has had enough of MP's from ALL corners of the House sucking on the public teat, and even though what Carter was proposing is within the rules - just - surely he must understand the public firestorm which is now erupting.
We don't begrudge Chris Carter and Peter Kaiser a holiday. But their joint income is far in excess of ours, and surely it wouldn't hurt them to dip into their own pockets just this once. For the record, we are off on holiday tomorrow, and we've paid for it ourselves as have hundreds of thousands of other New Zealand families. We've certainly never booked a business class flight.
Are we jealous? Quite possibly. Are we angry? Absolutely! Chris Carter, and all our MP's need to take a long, hard look at themselves and ask if they are giving us value for money. In Carter's case, we reckon that the answer is a no-brainer.
13 comments:
totally agree. They are allowed a holiday, with their own cash though, not on us.
Fuck him . It is 5.00 am I am waiting for a taxi to take me and the dog to the airport so we can go home for Xmas.
He wants us to pay for his fucking holiday business class. I really struggle to understand where he is coming from.
On another note have a great Xmas.
Will catch up with your blog on an intermittent basis over the next 3 weeks
Well said HS; I'll be thinking of CC and PK as I clamber aboard a packed Interislander this evening, with at least the satisfaction that no public money has been mis-spent getting Mrs Inv and myself to our destination.
Have a blessed Christmas as well, and thanks for your contributions of late.
hi T bit late perhaps but seasons greetings and all the best for the New Year - your simian friend. Lee
1. Chris Carter - the sense of entitlement is astonishing.
2. Seasons greetings as well to you and your family I2. Enjoy your break. Mine starts tomorrow sort of, as it has for the past decade.
3. Every time some-one mentions the interislander, for some for reaosn the Waratahs song about it pops into my head and stays for the rest of the day!
Excellent choice of day to be sailing Inv..blue skies all round, bit of a breeze, and the harbour's looking calm...unlike the last few days!
Yeah! Cris Carter's behaviour is completely Wong!
He seems to be utterly self-centered, is very disloyal to the hardworking tax-payer, and not to mention, his own party. What a user. He has no right to represent Kiwis in the House, shame on him. Yes, MPs need to look at themeselves closely, but not all of them are rorters and greedy to this extent. Astonishing and disgusting.
And yet he'll regard the hue and cry as more gay-bashing! He's a slow learner that boy.
You people are mostly fucktards.
Merry Christmas to you too Anon (10.57am)
I don't appreciate being labelled a "fucktard" anon, without at least a cursory explanation of your opinion? What's your point tosspot...are you okay with Carter's latest escapade?
I agree with Anon @ 10:57
(I'm not the 10:57 Anon. I'm the 2:57 Anon)
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