Bovva boy

Trevor Mallard. Haven't heard much of him recently but his ugly mug graces the front page this morning. Labour appears to wheel him out as the neighbourhood bovver boy whenever they want someone 'seeing to' - know wot I mean, like? Our Trev is effectively saying to the opposition 'If you don't stop asking entirely justifiable but very embarrassing questions about the filthy lucre I'm going to start telling tales of knee tremblers behind the National bicycle sheds'. a) This is dragging gutter politics past the sewers and on into the settling ponds and b) they just don't get it do they. Listen up, Trev and your minders, we aren't interested. You have had your hand in the public till and have been caught. We aren't the slightest bit swayed by your obfuscation and blathering about what someone else might have done. We all want you to pay the damned money back - to us. No if's, buts or Bartercard vouchers but cold hard cash. And we want it done preferably after you've all crawled under the door to come clean in person. Is all that too hard to understand?

Garth George day. He really shouldn't get paid this week as his column is too easy to write. 1000 words on NZ politicians behaving badly - I'll give you $3.50. Easy peasy. Koha/lofa - bad. Pledge card money - bad etc etc. He does earn a bit of money by pointing out that we are reaping what we sowed with MMP. MPs are now answerable to their parties and not their electorate and are therefore totally shameless. Even if you, as the electorate, throw an MP out at an election they pop right back up again courtesy of the list. I was not here when the referendum over MMP was held but apparently we were all promised another referendum in 2002 to judge how it was all going. Don't remember seeing that - but then again I don't remember the last time turkeys were asked to vote for Xmas. We ain't never going to get that second referendum, are we?

Phillip Field - remember him? The Editorial goes on about the inordinate amount of power individual Ministers hold - Chris Carter and the Whitianga Marina springs inistantly to mind (what ever happened to the High Court decsion over that?). Did you know that Phillip Field took 262 Immigration cases to the the Minister of Immigrtion (or his Deputy, can't remember which) between 2002-5? Thats over one a week- every week. Minister then makes a decision which overrides any decision made by his department. I don't know which way all these decisions went but it wouldn't be hard to work out. All very wrong. No smoke without fire.

I'm going to try and find something tomorrow that has nothing to do with all this sleaze. OSH, where are you when I need you?

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