I am both delighted and deeply dismayed that Whangamata has got its marina. Let me say from the outset that I couldn't give a stuff whether there is a marina in the town or not. Or whether eskimos can gather pipis from the harbour or not. The marina is just a vehicle that illustrates the parlous state the governance of this country is in.
I am delighted that the judicial system has rightly triumphed over political meddling. I am dismayed that it has taken so long and in fact that the conflict arose at all that it had to be rectified. The Herald's Editorial reckons that Carter should resign on the back of this. Of course he should, but both you and I know he won't because there is no such thing as doing the honourable thing in New Zealand politics. The worthless wretch is such a pitiable member of the human race that he probably still doesn't realise that he has trangressed. All the opprobrium being rightfully heaped upon him will be like water off a protected duck's back. Like a cracked record I harp on about the folly of failing to keep the judiciary and executive separate when running a country and this whole sorry affair is a prime example of what can happen when you stuff it up.
Just to compound the errors, look at the way the back down was handled yesterday. Carter doesn't have the balls to reverse his own decision so he flicks the hospital pass to Benson Dope. The High Court ruling gave Carter no choice but to reverse his decision but he says he passed the buck because he could not make a decision without bias. Bollocks. If you have a decision made for you there is no 'deciding' to do and bias doesn't come into it. No, he couldn't bring himself to stand up straight like a man and admit he was wrong. Come on, you spineless toad, say it. 'I was wrong'. You can't, can you, because you are a politician belonging to a Party that deals in duplicitous weasel words as its only form of currency. You can't because you are devoid of any of the principles that proper people use to run their lives. You can't because you are a waste of space.
The High Court delivered its decision in September?, October? and gave the uselesss Carter two weeks to come up with the definitive ruling. But no, Spineless Boy a) ducks for cover and b) waits until a few days before Xmas before sending his 'mate' over the top in the hope that everyone will be too full of eggnog to notice. The media tried in vain to get Carter, Benson Dope or anybody from Government to comment on the climb down yesterday but no one had the gumption to front up.
The whole thing is shameful on a magnitude that defies belief. The Marina Society has apparently paid about $1 million over ten years to get this far and they will get back about 10% of this in Court awarded costs. Carter is out of pocket to the tune of $0.00 and will likely keep his job so that he can go and grandstand over protecting the great white shark from recreational fishermen - three caught over the last twenty years.
Carter is but one example of the sort of pond life that runs this country and it is very, very ugly.
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