And as we drove into Wanganui, we heard Barry Soper advise that Phil Goff has admitted to knowing of this matter for two weeks, despite having previously denied any knowledge of it when asked by journalists. Imagine the outrage from the left had John Key knowingly misled journalists. Instead it's all the Beehive's fault says Phil! Oh dear!!
So, who's been a naughty boy then? Vernon Small from the Dom-Post reports:
Labour MPs have closed ranks and are refusing to comment about allegations that police are investigating an incident involving a senior Labour MP.
Stuff.co.nz understands the complainant was an 18-year-old male who has had links to Labour.
The MP who was the subject of the allegations did not return calls, and Labour sources said last night that senior MPs were in crisis talks over the issue.
But Labour leader Phil Goff did not return calls and his chief press secretary and chief of staff both would only say "no comment". They refused to confirm or deny the allegations or confirm there had been a complaint.
It is understood no charges have been laid by police but that they are investigating.
When there were allegations of impropriety surrounding Richard Worth, he immediately stood down as a Minister having been told by the Prime Minister that he would be sacked if he did not resign. Worth ultimately resigned as an MP when John Key indicated that there was no future for him in a Key-led National Party.
It will be interesting to see whether Goff takes similar decisive action, and whether the MP in question is a Goff supporter or one of the infamous Chris Carter Seventeen. This is certainly shaping up as a significant test of Goff's leadership.
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Mr Key will simply say that the matter is one for Mr Goff to address and leave it at that.
The media will then go nuts, as will the blog sphere. and Bobg will appear tryiong to divert attention to something else, lik he did with Mr Goffs firing squad.
Anything to do with the allegations made the other year involving a young lad and Labour MPs? Interesting!
@ Alex - Key will do well to maintain a dignified silence. Labour tried a sting on Worth which backfired on them.
In the meantime, it will be interesting to compare Goff's leadership on this issue with that of Key over Worth.
@ Clint; I don't think so. That involved Jevan Goulter who, IIRC is older than 18 now.
I too was thinking of young Mr Goulter, but he is 21-22.
However, considering the sex of the MP is not revealed, I am beginning to wonder if the sexuality of the MP might be a factor.
Granny's story makes reference to a 'young man' and I just thought of Harry Enfield and those little old ladies.
Private Dancer is my guess
Is the Shovel a senior MP?
Cadwallader
If we are awake we might know the victim.
A guide to Mr Goff's leadership can be gleaned from the Carter affair.
I wish that I could spell.
Starting the week with a little muck-raking Inv2?
Very Christian of you.
This, from the man who a couple of days ago denied making digs at Christians.
If you can't argue the topic Rob, you've lost the argument. Someone in Labour has ALLEGEDLY offended. I thought that you would be interested in how your potential coalition partner responded. Labour's response thus far is denial; contrast that with Key's action against Worth.
Yes it is sad there are people out there who are allegedly ratbags. Whatever happens will happen. Not much point gossiping about it until then. Especially gossips who are phonies. And who cut and paste MSM articles.
So it's Darren Hughes. Good on him for fronting to allay speculation. Now the police can do their job and the truth will be revealed. Sorry nasty right-wing haters. You'll have to keep making stuff up until the facts are presented. And then you'll just make stuff up anyway. Or at the very least report what the MSM spin.
I love it how lefties cry when a right wing blogger makes comments about an incident about a lefty. They call right wingers things like "nasty" "Muck rakers" etc etc.
and yet...when a righty is caught up in an incident the lefty bloggers have a field day and blog to their hearts content and it is suddenly ok.
Talk about diuble standards!
Who's crying? I think you'll find some very well thought out comments compared to those predictable responses from the unthinking right wing who are not highly skilled at the language of debate but are outstanding at the language of propaganda.
It's odd how a labour party stuff-up sees the nasty right wing shooting themselves in the foot with hyperbole and speculative gossip instead of focusing on the facts.
Anything that gets Clit Heinous out in the sunlight away from his yukky closed-door blog has to be a good thing. Notice he references a subject close to his heart?
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