Matt McCarten's column this morning is primarily about Hekia Parata now being unlikely to be New Zealand's first Prime Minister of Maori descent.
But hidden away as he reflects on the crash and burn of previous aspirants to that role (Winston Peters, John Tamihere and Shane Jones), he drops in this gem:
Jones' approving citizenship for someone with questions over their character, after being advised not to, smells.The best he can now hope for is that the impending inquiry clears him.I wouldn't be surprised that whatever the result, he will give the political game away and resign. Unlike many of his fellow parliamentarians, he'd make a better living outside without the aggro.
Matt McCarten gets it. He understands that the Bill Liu case does indeed smell. We are glad that it is going to be subjected to scrutiny and sunlight.
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McCarten's opinions are banned from Keeping Stock, aren't they, KS?
They were.
As we're seemingly now able to quote him, McCarten says:
"The powerful teacher unions are now in sync with the public mood, parents, trustees and school principals."
He's right.
I frequently quote McCarten Robert, but usually disagree with him. On Shane Jones and Bill Liu however, we are in harmony. Do YOU think he's right about Jones? How's it smelling from where you sit?
You dismiss McCarten as an IRD cheat, refuse to accept a commenter's use of a McCarten quote, but here, he's said something that supports your position, so he's hunky-dory.
Odd.
McCaretn IS a tax cheat Robert; that is a proven, established fact. If anything, that gives even more credibility to his statement on Jones and the "highly suspicious" Mr Liu; you know; it takes one to know one and all that...
Of course McCarten 'gets it' when it comes to Shane Jones. He is a Maori MP in the party that Mana has to chip away at in order to gain a better percent of the party vote. If they can unseat Jones then they can attack Labour both for not being left wing enough and not being Maori enough.
Surely McCarten agreeing with you weakens your argument considerably?
You have no respect for McCarten or his views except when it's convenient for you, in which case you quote him extensively. Why is that? Perhaps it's because you're a hack whose one guiding and immutable principle for action is National good, Labour baaaaaaad.
"...it takes one to know one and all that..."
Goodness, that's a very candid admission on your part.
It's a shame about both of them. Shane Jones is easily my preferred Labour leader, and I think Hekia Parata would make a great Prime Minister. I don't think the tide will stay out for Parata - she can recover from this.
It would be real shame if no minister can ever become PM. We'll go through this silly cycle that seems to have started with Brash, then Key and Shearer where to have a clean enough record to be leader, you must be literally completely new to parliament.
But come on - Phil Goff's ministerial record was hardly in question at the 2011 election, was it? Maybe it would have if it were a closer race, but I doubt it.
Parata's arrogance and sense of self-importance has sunk her.
She'll not learn. She'll not recover.
Haere ra, Parata.
Too subtle, Judge. It'll fly straight over his head...
Don't see how Shane Jones could ever be prime minister. No-one would shake his hand as it's known what he uses it for.
Parata's arrogance and sense of self-importance has sunk her.
Sounds more like self-analysis from you Robert; do you ever think for a moment about how pious and arrogant you sound as you dismiss the views of everyone who has a different opinion to you? If you don't, you should.
"Parata's arrogance and sense of self-importance has sunk her."
Who's views have I dismissed there, KS?
Great to see your resident trolls have spent their day ruining yet another one of your posts, Inv.
As for McCarten, he *is* a tax cheat and all-round scum-bag (hell, he's a unionist in cahoots with a fucktard like Comrade Carolan), but that doesn't mean he isn't right on Bill Liu.
And have you already expunged from your memory the Nine Years of Darkness? New Zeakand's fist homosexual Prime Minister? I suspect you left out the word "openly".
Cue faux outrage in 3...2...1...
@ TGG - No outrage, only pity at your deluded and ridiculous worldview.
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