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You need to calm down and take a chill pill rdydty. Too many posts about not much at all. Go off this weekend and watch a bit of footy and have a cold beer. Don't think about politics and especially don't think about Jacinda Ardern, the Prime Minister of New Zealand.

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Not a show

I've got 2 dogs, both cattle dogs bred by my son, both of which didn't meet the grade.  By then we had become very attached to them, so I took them on

Anyway, they are both voracious feeders, they love their food, fruit, smoothies, salad, anything really.

Now I reckon, if I put them in a room with Ted and a bone, they would both firstly go hungry, then look at me, as if to say WTF Hesi:D

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Has your son bought a house yet Hesi for rents are going to be increased yet again due to government without an economic clue.

CS writes:

The economic lunacy of Phil Twyford

 

Today we’ve announced that we are banning letting fees. They’re unfair and take up to $47 million a year out of the pockets of families. Another step in our plan to make life better for renters.

 

Phil Twyford has announced that he is going to ban letting fees. Apparently real estate agents and letting agents are just going to shut up shop and let $47 million of revenue disappear without even a fight.  

Or economics in the real world will see new fees like “inspection fees” or “interview fees” or “vetting fees” and the easy one – a “key fee”, where you don’t get the key until you’ve paid for the keys.

If the letting agents charge the landlords then the rents go up  simple. The letting fee will now be included in the rent and spread out into 52 easy weekly payments… called rent.

If he seriously thinks that $47 million in letting fees is no longer going to be charged then he is a special kind of stupid.

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On 3/23/2018 at 10:15 AM, hesi said:

Not a show

I've got 2 dogs, both cattle dogs bred by my son, both of which didn't meet the grade.  By then we had become very attached to them, so I took them on

Anyway, they are both voracious feeders, they love their food, fruit, smoothies, salad, anything really.

Now I reckon, if I put them in a room with Ted and a bone, they would both firstly go hungry, then look at me, as if to say WTF Hesi:D

 I hope those dogs are registered, wouldn't want you to be a typical Labour bum and not register them. Sounds like you are not feeding them properly if they are eating all that shit.

Do those dogs protect your whitebaiting spot?. Only 5 months to go and you can get your income stream going again Hesi.

 

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You're starting to give quite a bit away about yourself Barry

Familiarity with Winz hours, whitebait season, unregistered dogs.

C'mon, I bet you voted for Jacinda, you just don't want Ted to know

You did quite well in that Slipper F4 comp, a lot better than most

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Especially for Hesi

Has the relentless positividdy from media stopped?

By CS

 

grumpy-jacinda.pngIt seems that there has been a change in the media in recent days.

Gone are the photo opportunities, the gushy editorials and the puff pieces on the Prime Minister.

There are even awful looking photos appearing now.

Have the media realised that their “People’s Princess” isn’t all that.

Hamish Rutherford writes:

Jacinda Ardern’s decision to take a walk down the steps of Parliament on Monday was well intentioned, but is symbolic of the Government’s confusion around managing an economy.

In what may be a first, the prime minister personally went to greet representatives of Greenpeace and receive a petition calling for the end of oil exploration.

Few seriously doubt that oil and gas is a sunset industry. But there still is genuine debate about whether New Zealand has the gas reserves in operational fields to manage the transition away from fossil fuels.

Much of New Zealand’s industry relies on gas, as does the electricity sector. Most of our electricity generation is renewable, but it is gas that gives the system security.

Few would rather see their granny sitting in the cold than burn gas if parts of the transmission network fell over.

 

Not only that she was late to a state luncheon so she could virtue-signal to a bunch of smelly hippies. But, that’s all Jacinda has got. I said it years ago and now the media are finding out. Jacinda Ardern is nothing more than a figurehead, a collection of bumper sticker slogans and no substance. She’s not particularly bright and seems to think being PM is nothing more than grandstanding, slogans and selfies.

It’s ironic, really, as that is what Labour criticised John Key for all those years.

But Ardern has created problems of precedent (how to decide which other groups deserve such a greeting) as well as expectation.

The symbolism of the Greenpeace rally was the type of theatre many groups try to manufacture at Parliament, but few manage.

Standing in front of posters of Norman Kirk, David Lange and Helen Clark, who had all made historic environmental moves, as well as a poster of herself, Ardern volunteered that she had delayed attending a state lunch to deliver such an important message.

We’re working hard on this issue and we know that it’s one that we can’t afford to spend much time on.”

Ardern gave an air of immediacy, but the Government is clearly not in a position to comment.

Hours after Ardern accepted the petition she gave a much more ‘business as usual’ message to Parliament’s Press Gallery, even distancing herself from what may have been seen as a snub to the Indonesian president.

She now stands accused of speaking out of both sides of her mouth… and making no one happy in the process. She makes it sound as though stopping oil exploration is so important that it comes before the oft-stated goal of ending child poverty.

Unlike the other controversies of recent weeks, where Ardern has been justifying the positions of her colleagues, this was a storm entirely of her own making.

The prime minister, who labelled climate change as her generation’s nuclear free moment, is now in an almost impossible position, for little political gain.

She has to either call a permanent end to oil exploration in New Zealand, whether the economy is ready or not, or face accusations of hypocrisy.

Don’t worry, there will be a new committee, or investigation, or commission, or something. She won’t or can’t make decisions so just kicks the can down the road with inquiries.

For the industry this creates major uncertainty, the significance of which Labour seems to struggle to appreciate.

Businesses, by and large, are better at coping with bad news than they are at coping with uncertainty. You cannot plan for it or adapt to it.

Labour don’t understand business: they’ve never created one, run one or been involved with one. Uncertainty kills economies.

Other industries may be getting nervous, at a time when business confidence is already low.

The electricity sector, where the Government has a controlling share in three of the four biggest players, may wonder what influence ministers will wield. How long before the hugely profitable banking sector gets a serve from a Cabinet minister?

The Government has every right to take action against any part of the economy it chooses. But in a series of recent episodes it has delivered nothing.

If Ardern’s Government is going to be more interventionist, as it has promised it will, then it should spend a little more time working on its plans and warning the industry, rather than making political statement with no back-up.

Why haven’t they got plans after nine years in opposition? It is obvious to all, including journalists, that Labour have no idea about what to do and are nothing more than bloviating try-hards who are actually failing. They even forget they are in government now and blindly issue press releases like they did in opposition. They are in government, which means they have to do something.

Six months have evaporated and nothing has been achieved.

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13 hours ago, hesi said:

Managed to get the first 3 words as your own work, well done

And plenty more to come. Bit more interesting than the Women's weeklies and Vogue Magazines that you read or is that comics. :lol:

Your princess is out of her depth, nothing is getting done and the coalition is a bunch of misfits. I do note that you refute none of what is being said in all of this.

Reality starting to kick in for you for yet. :rolleyes:  

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2 hours ago, rdytdy said:

And plenty more to come. Bit more interesting than the Women's weeklies and Vogue Magazines that you read or is that comics. :lol:

Your princess is out of her depth, nothing is getting done and the coalition is a bunch of misfits. I do note that you refute none of what is being said in all of this.

Reality starting to kick in for you for yet. :rolleyes:  

I doubt Ted that they have Womens Weekly or Vogue in the waiting area at his local WINZ office.

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On ‎03‎/‎22‎/‎2018 at 8:51 PM, rdytdy said:

What a disastrous week for the cobbled together coalition government of misfits.

The Young Labour summer camp with underage drinking and sexual assaults with an attempt to cover it up.

Winston Peters making statements about Russia contrary to Labour.

The Greens giving away their question time to National.

Shane Jones making a complete twat of himself over Air NZ and earning a rebuke from the princess.

 

 

 

 

As I pointed out last week. The following piece highlights the above perfectly:

A brutal and honest assessment of Jacinda Ardern by John Armstrong

 
 

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Jacinda Ardern sold herself to the voting public last year as a politician who was as fresh and pure as driven snow.

During the past couple of weeks, her prime ministership has looked about as fresh and pure as mud-caked slush.

She has been deluged with unwanted distractions which have dominated the headlines and made it commensurately difficult to talk about the things she would prefer to have highlighted by the media.

Dealing with such an unrelenting litany of political mishaps goes with the territory of prime minister, however.

All of a sudden Wonder Woman is looking like just another struggling premier side-tracked by side shows.

Brand Jacinda would seem to be metamorphosing into Calamity Jacinda.    

 

Ouch, that’s brutal. It’s also true as Jacinda Ardern is ill-equipped to deal with anything other than soft, fluffy headlines and slogans.

For the first time since her seemingly effortless ascension to the country’s top job just five short months ago, she has appeared flustered, if not rattled.

And snarly and nasty to boot.

Ardern’s difficulties have left many wondering whether they are a sign that the wheels are already falling off her Heath Robinson-like contraption of a government.

Her three-party combo is far more complex and potentially much more volatile than any other constructed since the introduction of MMP.

Labour needs no reminding of the Greens’ capacity to be thankless thorns in its side.

Add the in-your-face bolshiness of New Zealand First to the mix and you have a recipe for mayhem.

Isn’t it wonderful? I think it is. Blogging has never been easier.

With regard to the latter party, Ardern can expect more friction of the kind generated this week by Shane Jones in his full-on offensive against Air New Zealand.

In one stroke, he made it absolutely clear that such constitutional niceties as collective Cabinet responsibility, which constrains ministers from going solo in speaking out, now count for very little.

No politician lost votes pinging the national carrier. There are correspondingly no votes gained in defending the airline.

But the latter was the invidious position into which Ardern was thrust courtesy of the deliberately over-the-top call by the Minister for Regional Economic Development for heads to roll on the board of Air New Zealand.

Jones got the media attention he was seeking. But his undermining of Ardern did nothing for public confidence in the stability of the Government overall.

Well might she feel let down by Jones. Well may she feel let down by Jones’ leader who backed him to the hilt.

Jacinda thinks she is in charge, but anyone closely connected to the government knows that it is really Winston Peters calling the shots.

It is high time Winston Peters worked out that being Deputy Prime Minister—a post which enjoys a $37,000 margin on top of the standard $290,000 salary paid to Cabinet ministers—requires him to act in the Government’s wider interest rather than solely New Zealand First’s self-interest.

Bwahahaha. Winston Peters works in the best interests of Winston Peters. He always has and always will.

The list of those who have let Ardern down in past weeks is not confined to Peters’ party, however

Ardern was badly let down by Andrew Kirton, Labour’s general secretary, and Nigel Howarth, the party’s president, following the shocking revelations of under-age drinking and allegations of sexual assault at a Young Labour-organised summer camp.In particular, Howarth took so long to front in public that you could be excused thinking he was auditioning for the role of the Invisible Man.

Well might Ardern wish that Peters was the Invisible Man.

He further badly let her down in his other role as Foreign Minister. 

She bent over backwards to stem the criticism rightly heaped upon him for his woeful handling of New Zealand’s response to the attempted murder of the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal.

Peters veered close to provoking a foreign policy crisis through point-blank refusal to use the words “assassination”, “nerve agent”, “Russia” and “responsible” in the same sentence.

The Prime Minister has also been badly let down by the Greens, who have instantly revived their flagging reputation for adopting the weird and the whacky by announcing they would be gifting their allotment of parliamentary questions to the Opposition.

James Shaw was the first to agree the idea sounded crazy. Not only does it sound crazy. It is crazy. It is also little short of treachery.

Senior Labour people I’ve spoken to say that they have privately declared war on the Greens. They never liked them in the first place and they will now try to do to the Greens what National did to ACT.

It seems to have escaped the Greens that their gesture—ostensibly made in the interests of improving ministerial accountability—is a breach of the spirit, if not the wording of their co-operation agreement with Labour.

If things are going to fall apart, however, it will likely be because of clashes over policy matters.

One such battle is already looming. The Greens’ parliamentary wing now looks likely to yield to pressure from the wider party membership to block legislation instigated by Peters which would see MPs indulging in party-hopping chucked out of Parliament.

That could be entertaining.

Peters is obsessed with getting an anti-waka jumping law back on the statute books after a previous such measure expired more than a decade ago. There is little or no room for compromise.

We are thus entering unchartered waters. When it comes to steering into the rocks, there are going to be many false alarms, however.

Should the governing arrangement collapse, the party deemed as responsible for bringing the House down can guarantee it will be punished heavily by voters. 

One thing pundits haven’t realised is that if the government collapses it doesn’t necessarily require an election. Both the Greens and NZ First could go cut a deal with National and the confidence in the house would change immediately, as would the government, all without an election. At the moment that could be easily triggered given the parlous state of Labour ministers and their hapless performances.

It could prove to be fatal. The Greens and New Zealand First are currently registering less than 7 per cent support in opinion polls. Neither party holds an electorate seat which would void the 5 per cent threshold.

The Greens are hogtied; New Zealand First slightly less so. Were the current Government to collapse, Peters could approach National and try to form an alternative administration.

He would have little bargaining power.

Moreover, National might prefer to take advantage of the chaos to try to convince voters that a stand-alone National majority government was the best option in ensuring the restoration of political stability.

That would be extremely risky…trying to go alone. That was Bill NEglish’s plan and we all know how that ended up. John Key never managed it. Simon Bridges is no John Key.

The danger lies in the parties accidentally ending up in circumstances which make it impossible for them to back down or back off over some issue where they are in serious disagreement.

Avoiding such a scenario requires discipline. That commodity would seem to be in increasingly short supply, however.

Ardern needs to read the Riot Act to Peters and Shaw. She also needs to take heed of it herself.

She won’t do that. She is just like John Key but without the ruthlessness. She wants to be popular and liked. Being nasty doesn’t become her and she can’t cope with the pressure of doing that.

She let herself down while clearing up the mess created by Peters’ botched handling of the Russia problem. And badly so.

Her claim this week that New Zealand had been ahead of the international pack in declaring Moscow was behind the attempted murder of Skripal was as outrageous as it was audacious as it was patently incorrect.

She made reference to a statement issued under Peters’ name which condemned the “totally repugnant” use of chemical weapons as a tool for assassination.

Peters’ statement, however, offered not a word on whether responsibility for the assassination attempt could or should be sheeted home to Moscow.

In marked contrast, Britain’s other allies showed no hesitation in laying the blame for the nerve agent attack squarely at Russia’s door.

It took a couple more days for New Zealand to fall into line and declare via a joint statement issued under Ardern’s and Peters’ names that “Russia has serious questions to answer”.

No-one who has kept tabs on how events unfolded will be fooled by the Prime Minister’s blatant and shameless attempt to rewrite history. She will get away with it on this occasion. The conduct of foreign policy is not something the public cares that much about.

She is a perfect example of spin over substance – something I have been saying about her since 2008 when I had lunch with her in Morrinsville.

Ardern would be well-advised not to make a habit of playing fast and loose with the facts, however. Her patter might be silky smooth. But she cannot expect to talk her way out of every predicament that she finds herself enmeshed in. 

Sooner than later, she will be caught out. 

Voters have invested much hope in her being a politician who can be trusted absolutely. To make fools of those who have shown such faith in her would be to invite a backlash truly terrible in its scale and vitriol.

It is worse for Ardern and she sanctimoniously lectured Bill English during the election campaign about never telling lies. That lie has been well and truly outed in recent weeks.

 

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Quite correct Ohokaman:

The misandry of Julie Anne Genter

by CS

Of course, that is also racist and ageist.

Women’s Minister Julie Anne Genter says old white men need to “move on” from company boards to help close the gender pay gap.

Speaking to students at Christchurch’s Cobham Intermediate School on Thursday, Genter said the private sector needed to address the low level of female representation on New Zealand company boards if more businesses were to be led by women.

About 85 per cent of board members were male, and many were “old white men in their 60s”.

“Some of them need to move on and allow for diversity and new talent,” she said, later clarifying she had “no problem with old white men” on company boards generally.

 

Boards need wisdom, experience and business acumen, not some virtue-signalled diversity appointment. If I had shares in a company and they sacked several board members so they could put a brown or yellow face, which also happened to be female, there simply because they were brown and female I would quit my shares forthwith.

Genter went to Cobham to visit 10-year-old Maia Devereaux, who sent the minister a pay equity petition after a class project on what a utopian society might look like.

Maia said it was hard for her 40-odd signatories to refuse when the gender pay gap was presented to them on paper.

“I didn’t really have people who said no but I think there are people out there who would.”

Genter told about 60 students it was hard to address the pay gap, in part because female employees were often unaware of what their male colleagues earned for the same work.

She said before she entered politics, she learned a male colleague “who was brought in after me was being paid more than me, even though I was bringing in more work”.

“I was going into [salary] negotiations saying ‘do you really want to pay me that much?’ Of course, he asked for a lot more and got it.”

Well, that just shows that Julie Anne Genter doesn’t value HERSELF as highly as that bloke valued HIMSELF. It is her fault she wasn’t paid the same, not anyone else. It also proves Jordan Peterson’s point.

She said pay transparency – making companies report and measure their gender pay gaps – was an important step in enforcing the largely-ineffective Equal Pay Act 1972.

Historically, “there was a lot of progress in spurts” but work on closing the gap had “stalled” in the last decade, she said.

“The last few Ministers for Women weren’t given a lot of priority and they were afraid to even call themselves feminists.”

Louise Upston, who held the role between 2014 and 2016, said she was not a feminist and “not interested in being a flag waver” for feminism after being criticised for supporting beauty pageants. Previous Minister for Women Paula Bennett said she was a feminist “most days”.

What a piece of work Julie Anne Genter is. Does she not realise that men vote too?

This government is setting about alienating middle New Zealand really very quickly.

If readers who are “old, white men” are upset then I can assist you. The Human Rights Commission has a handy online form to fill out. Make sure you tick age, colour, race and sex just to make sure you’ve covered all the bases on the discrimination you feel because of this government minister.

 

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The other night someone from the Green party rang me and asked if I would participate in a social survey they are doing, sure I said, I have a minute to spare.
First they asked "how do you view lesbian relationships?"
Apparently "in high definition" is not an appropriate answer.
Then they asked "how do you view your female co workers?"
Apparently "through the hole I drilled in the bathroom wall" is not an appropriate answer.
Then they asked "how would you view the Imam of the local mosque?"
Apparently "through the scope on my 30 30" is not an appropriate answer.
Then they asked "if I am to the left or to the right?"
I said "look you filthy pervert, which side of my underpants I keep my penis in is none of your damn business!"
Then they hung up! Bloody Greenies, no pleasing them.

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31 minutes ago, rdytdy said:

The other night someone from the Green party rang me and asked if I would participate in a social survey they are doing, sure I said, I have a minute to spare.
First they asked "how do you view lesbian relationships?"
Apparently "in high definition" is not an appropriate answer.
Then they asked "how do you view your female co workers?"
Apparently "through the hole I drilled in the bathroom wall" is not an appropriate answer.
Then they asked "how would you view the Imam of the local mosque?"
Apparently "through the scope on my 30 30" is not an appropriate answer.
Then they asked "if I am to the left or to the right?"
I said "look you filthy pervert, which side of my underpants I keep my penis in is none of your damn business!"
Then they hung up! Bloody Greenies, no pleasing them.

Is that meant to be funny? 

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10 minutes ago, rdytdy said:

  :rolleyes:   Only if you have sense of humour. 

I have a good sense of humour and I also have a decent sense of self awareness. 

If you had any of the latter you'd realise that you come across as a chauvinist, bigoted pervert :rolleyes:

You might consider jokes about minority groups (lesbians, muslims) and jokes that are demeaning to women, appropriate when you're with your old mates, but on a public forum - really!?  You should think twice before you post this stuff.

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10 hours ago, rdytdy said:

Quite correct Ohokaman:

The misandry of Julie Anne Genter

by CS

Of course, that is also racist and ageist.

Women’s Minister Julie Anne Genter says old white men need to “move on” from company boards to help close the gender pay gap.

Speaking to students at Christchurch’s Cobham Intermediate School on Thursday, Genter said the private sector needed to address the low level of female representation on New Zealand company boards if more businesses were to be led by women.

About 85 per cent of board members were male, and many were “old white men in their 60s”.

“Some of them need to move on and allow for diversity and new talent,” she said, later clarifying she had “no problem with old white men” on company boards generally.

 

Boards need wisdom, experience and business acumen, not some virtue-signalled diversity appointment. If I had shares in a company and they sacked several board members so they could put a brown or yellow face, which also happened to be female, there simply because they were brown and female I would quit my shares forthwith.

Genter went to Cobham to visit 10-year-old Maia Devereaux, who sent the minister a pay equity petition after a class project on what a utopian society might look like.

Maia said it was hard for her 40-odd signatories to refuse when the gender pay gap was presented to them on paper.

“I didn’t really have people who said no but I think there are people out there who would.”

Genter told about 60 students it was hard to address the pay gap, in part because female employees were often unaware of what their male colleagues earned for the same work.

She said before she entered politics, she learned a male colleague “who was brought in after me was being paid more than me, even though I was bringing in more work”.

“I was going into [salary] negotiations saying ‘do you really want to pay me that much?’ Of course, he asked for a lot more and got it.”

Well, that just shows that Julie Anne Genter doesn’t value HERSELF as highly as that bloke valued HIMSELF. It is her fault she wasn’t paid the same, not anyone else. It also proves Jordan Peterson’s point.

She said pay transparency – making companies report and measure their gender pay gaps – was an important step in enforcing the largely-ineffective Equal Pay Act 1972.

Historically, “there was a lot of progress in spurts” but work on closing the gap had “stalled” in the last decade, she said.

“The last few Ministers for Women weren’t given a lot of priority and they were afraid to even call themselves feminists.”

Louise Upston, who held the role between 2014 and 2016, said she was not a feminist and “not interested in being a flag waver” for feminism after being criticised for supporting beauty pageants. Previous Minister for Women Paula Bennett said she was a feminist “most days”.

What a piece of work Julie Anne Genter is. Does she not realise that men vote too?

This government is setting about alienating middle New Zealand really very quickly.

If readers who are “old, white men” are upset then I can assist you. The Human Rights Commission has a handy online form to fill out. Make sure you tick age, colour, race and sex just to make sure you’ve covered all the bases on the discrimination you feel because of this government minister.

 

Born in Minnesota, expert on sweet FA, 13th out of 14 on the List...now a Government Minister...??

What a joke this system is.....:angry:

 

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20 hours ago, Kloppite said:

I have a good sense of humour and I also have a decent sense of self awareness. 

If you had any of the latter you'd realise that you come across as a chauvinist, bigoted pervert :rolleyes:

You might consider jokes about minority groups (lesbians, muslims) and jokes that are demeaning to women, appropriate when you're with your old mates, but on a public forum - really!?  You should think twice before you post this stuff.

You must know Ted, Kloppy, you have described him well and much the same as 99.9% of the people on this forum would describe him:D:D:D 

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And it just keeps getting worse and worse for Ardern and the Government;

Tracy Watkins on Jacinda’s continuing nightmare

Being Prime Minister isn’t all beer and skittles, especially when your own ministers are screwing up beyond all belief.

The media can sniff blood and some of it is the PM’s. Tracy Watkins explores the problems that Ardern is struggling to keep a lid on:

Problems are supposed to come in threes. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is already at two, and it’s only Tuesday.

Her third could be the further unravelling of the saga that has already claimed one scalp – that of Radio New Zealand’s head of content, Carol Hirschfeld.

Hirschfeld resigned over inconsistent accounts of a meeting with Communications Minister Clare Curran, which should never have happened.

That’s because, on Hirschfeld’s part, it breached RNZ protocolsOn Curran’s part, it looked like she was reaching over the top of the board and CEO to the head of news at the State broadcaster.

It smacks of editorial interference.

 

That’s because it was… and treason.

Labour’s policy boosts public broadcasting coffers by $38 million, a staggering amount in today’s struggling media environment. It’s not hard to see why a senior executive from an underfunded RNZ might have considered it politic to keep Curran happy when the minister reached out.

Astoria Cafe is not the place  for a secret meeting – it is where the movers and shakers in Wellington go to be seen. Yet when asked by National about her meetings with RNZ, Curran initially omitted it, only correcting the record later.

Hirschfeld’s explanation was that they bumped into each other by accident – only that is not what happened either, according to Curran. She says it was in both their diaries.

But Hirschfeld didn’t change her story, according to Radio New Zealand chief executive Paul Thompson, even after he and RNZ chair Richard Griffin inadvertently misled a select committee by repeating her version of events.

She has paid the price for that. Yet Curran also knew they had misled the select committee, but failed to correct the public record.

Instead, a staffer contacted RNZ on March 1, the same day as the select committee, to query Hirschfeld’s story.

It followed up again with RNZ – this time bringing Griffin into the loop – on March 22. Only then was action taken.

Ardern has made it clear Curran is on notice – if more emerges, her head will be on the block.

More will emerge. Media sources I’ve been speaking to in Wellington know an awful lot more than Clare Curran is letting on.

But like the bizarre case of a NZ First MP allegedly warning a National MP off asking awkward questions in Parliament, Curran’s blunder contributes to the perception of an accident-prone and inexperienced Government.

After the recent Labour youth camp blunder, Ardern might have been hoping for a better start to the new week.

No wonder she looks like she is carrying the weight of her government on her shoulders – and it’s only Tuesday.

The youth camp saga is set to re-ignite, when the alleged offender is outed. That isn’t far off. Just a matter of days. More questions will be asked about that and saying a review is under way won’t cut it.

I think we are going to see scowly faced Jacinda for a few more weeks.

 

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