Breached As
Don’t you just love Phil Goff’s pronouncements? Today he is telling the world that, if he was prime minister (which, thank the Lord, he is not), he would have stripped Richard Worth of his portfolio because he failed to manage a conflict of interest properly.
Now, I agree this was a dumb thing to do. Worth should have seen the inevitable conflict and resigned from his directorship. He certainly deserves a thorough rap across the knuckles and has been given one. Phil could have mumbled darkly about accountability and conflicts of interests. He could have hammered Worth during question time.
No. Phil prefers moralising and grandstanding. Which is why we have this wonderful statement.
““I think that if you breach the cabinet manual in terms of conflict of interest, you’re gone.
““That was certainly the way (former prime minister) Helen Clark ran (things) and I would, too.””
Where there any conflicts of interest in the Labour cabinet – of course not, none of them were in business, were they?
Were there any breaches of the cabinet manual?
Wait! there’s a name of the tip of my tongue. it’s… it’s….
WINSTON PETERS (alias the gift that keeps on giving)
Thanks, Phil. I laughed so hard this morning I snorted my cornflakes…
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Mar 31 09 12:37 pm
But what about Parker? Ian Wishart has made a good case that Parker was kept in cabinet due to a document that was forged to clear him.
But Ian’s point was that Parker had either lied about this guy being a shareholder, or had lied about that shareholder having signed off on an audit waver. So pulling out a (allegedly forged and patently contradictory) statement proving one was the case didn’t clear him on the other.
Agreed. Although Parker breached the law rather than simply the cabinet manual.
Mar 31 09 1:09 pm
” laughed so hard this morning I snorted my cornflakes…”
Do we take this as a medical warning to separate politics and breakfast?
Absolutely. Bad for your health!