“Cut and Run” Phil Goff is unrepentant over nicking more than $30,000 of taxpayers money in order to fund his non-message bus tour. A minister in National resigned over inappropriate spending of just $70.00 showing far more integrity than “Cut and Run” Phil Goff. His sense of entitlement to dip into taxpayer funds to run his campaigns is repulsive

Labour’s “Axe the Tax” bus trip protesting GST increases is costing the taxpayer about $30,000 – but Labour leader Phil Goff has defended it as the cheapest way to get around the country on an issue that affects everybody.

The Labour Party has chartered the bus for a fortnight-long nationwide trip protesting against the Government’s proposal to increase GST to 15 per cent, with compensatory tax cuts that Labour claims will advantage high-income earners.

The bus features a red “skin” with Axe the Tax signage and Labour logos.

A spokesman for Mr Goff said the costs were expected to be about $30,000, including for the bus charter, the signage and other material such as signs and balloons.

He is a trougher extraordinaire. He is supping along with his party at the biggest trough there is, parliamentary funding. We can only trust “Cut and Run” Phil Goff for the figures too because all of the funding that he has availed himself of has been from a post of taxpayers gold beyond the reach of the Official Information Act. We have to trust a man known less for his honesty and more for his spinelessness, that the figures are accurate.

Not only that “Cut and Run” Goff suggests basically that if we don’t like the bus, well he could always have used his minsterial limousine.

The bus was the cheapest way to get around the country and to places that were not on main transport routes.

It would cost significantly more for him to use Crown cars to travel around in and for other MPs to use individual forms of transport. The signage was attention-grabbing and ensured people knew exactly what the MPs were there to talk about.

What a fuckwit! Not only he lies again. The bus may be attention seeking, at least he is honest about for a man desperately seeking relevance but to say that the trip ensured people knew exactly what they ere talking about is a straight out lie. They are most certainly not talking about Axing GST completely and it is they are also NOT talking about dropping GST, and most certainly they won’t be talking about removing the increase in GST should the unlikely occur and they win office at the next election, so it begs the obvious question. Just what are they talking about?

Well I can tell you that those figures are highly suspect. For a start to wrap a bus that big with a full wrap, which is what they have done would probably come in at more than $10,000. That is a third of his $30,000. The rental of the bus would presumably includes a driver because I doubt any Labour MP has the necessary Class 2 licence and P endorsement to drive the bus. Let’s assume that a driver is supplied and he drives the maximum legal hours he can including all break required by law and rest stops of 12 hours per day. Let’s also be generous and say that the driver is paid at the top end of usual bus driver rates at $16p/h. The wages bill alone for the driver is $2688.00, there would also need to be accommodation costs in there, so that adds another $1170 for the two weeks. Labour would never spring for a nice motel for the driver, they would save those rooms for themselves. We are now almost at half of the cost of “Cut and Run” Phil Goff’s $30,000.

We still not have seen how much the daily charter is, the RUC, and the diesel fuel. In a bus like that the fuels costs would be about $150 per day, but that may be light. Still at $150 per day that is the not inconsquential sum of $2100. Now we are definately over halfway on the costs.

I think it is high time that “Cut and Run” Phil Goff produced the receipts to justify his figure of $30,000. I would suggest he will refuse out right given his taking umbrage at the suggestion he is troughing at our expense. To refuse would merely confirm my hypothesis that he is obfuscating on the costs.

The Speaker too needs to start thinking very seriously about the opening up of parliamentary services to greater scrutiny by removing the restriction preventing the OIA being used to prevent the public who pay for this silliness from seeing just how much troughing is going on. If he doesn’t it can only be a matter of time before there is a whistle-blower that dumps heaps of info in the hands of a blogger.

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I think this is what people hear when “Cut and Run” Goff is trying to talk about Labour’s policy GST.

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Phil Goff has a new official VRWC nickname. “Cut and Run”.

He thinks we should quit Afghanistan because it’s too hard and we won’t win.

Goff’s Law states that the continuance of a difficult task is inversely proportional to the to the ability to succeed at that task.

Given that we should cut and run from Afghanistan because it is too hard, and because we can’t win, then it isn’t un-reasonable for him to resign as Labour Party leader. The is clearly too hard for him, and he can’t possibly win meeting the two critical criteria that satisfy Goff’s Law.

Given that Afghanistan has over 3 decades of near constant war and zero democracy it is a bit cowardly to abandon them to the evils of the Taleban. If we do that we will just be back where it all started, and we will have to go sort it all out again. Just goes to show how committed Labour are to democracy for other countries. If they can’t sort it in 5 years then “cut and run”.

This is all from the man who flew the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong flags from the cenotaph in Auckland on April 30, 1975. He disgusts me.

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I was in parliament yesterday and stayed until about Q7.

Q1 was by Phil Goff and boy did he make an arse of it. I saw heads shaking in the Press Gallery it was that laughable.

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Well, after my fuck up on minimum wages, I guess I’d better point to something that shocked me: a Labour MP talking sense. Mr Rick Barker on Red Alert takes aim at the pain capital gains tax could cause to mainstream, hardworking Kiwis. His anecdote (perhaps staged, but that’s not the point) looks at a typical scenario:

This man is no bludger, no rack rent landlord, he is not highly leveraged gambling on capital gain to off set other costs, he is a hard working Kiwi and a saver.  He has done what was asked of him and now he fears that he is to be punished some how for doing the right thing, saving prudently.  He saw a house as a good investment.  Property values might go down, but he would still have the house.

Great stuff – a capital gains tax will hurt hardworking Kiwis, which is why the Prime Minister has rightly ruled it out. The only problem Rick, is that your own leader wanted to do a deal on capital gains tax. You’re on the right track, but you really need to get rid of the phil-in in charge of Labour.

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The utter hypocrisy of the Labour party and Phil Goff has been laid bare, not by a repeater, but by a blogger. While Pinko Farrar, Mr Taupe, did a once over lightly including the obligatory cut and paste of Phil Goff’s brain fart it is Cactus Kate that tears apart the central tenet of the brain fart.

Seat Warmer has defined in this speech all trusts and company structures from an individual as avoidance. Yet Parliament intended for companies, trusts and individuals to be taxed at different rates. So how can any action to set up a company or trust even if for tax reasons be one of tax avoidance?

Which is a silly premise to base you speech upon especially when the details of every MPs pecuniary interests are publicly available.

Why a repeater could have done what Cactus has done is beyond me as she tells me that she wrote her post while exceptionally drunk stone cold sober [Good God, she is going to gut me like a trout, personally I blame the drugs]

And let’s look at all the privileged few of the Labour party as Phil Goff describes anyone who use “Loopholes that allow high income earners to avoid tax have to be closed. Too many people on good incomes avoid and evade paying taxes. It’s not right that some top earners pay a lower percentage of their income in tax than those on the average wage”.

Rick Barker
Barker Family Trust
Upton Family Trust

Brendon Burns
BP and PL Burns Family Trust
PL and BP Burns Family Trust

Steve Chadwick
Gonzo Family Trust

Charles Chauvel
Kittery Trust
Pepperrell Trust
Victory Trust

Helen Clark
Burke Trust
FG Clark Family Trust

Clayton Cosgrove
Eagle Bay Family Trust
September Trust (blind trust)

David Cunliffe
Bozzie Family Trust

Kelvin Davis
Davis Family Trust

Parekura Horomia
Panikau A2
Mangatuna 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8
Mangaheia 1B3Y and 2G1
Tokomaru K4A and K4B1 – trustee
Tuatini Maori Township section 1 block vi lot 2
Rosaleen Aorangi Smith Whanau Trust

Raymond Huo
Chesterfields Trust (family trust)

Shane Jones
Victoria & Benecia Limited – property ownership
Ngakuraiti Enterprises Limited – professional services
Castlerigg Limited – property development
Jondal Properties – property investment
Te Puna o Te Anaru Trust
Castlerigg Trust

Annette King
King-Lind Family Trust

Nanaia Mahuta
Mahuta Whānau Trust

Trevor Mallard
Tomorrow’s Trees Limited – forestry, community company

Sue Moroney
SR Vugler and SM Moroney Farm Partnership

Stuart Nash
Agincourt Investments Limited – investment, consultancy
Nash Family Trust

David Parker
Karitane Trust
Sue Wootton Family Trust
FD Parker Children’s Trust
Tarras Trust

Lynne Pillay
The Pillay Trust

Mita Ririnui
Ririnui-Calhoun Family Trust
Te Aomihi Anne Ririnui-Horne Family Trust
Riripiti Timi Waati Lands Trust
Te Arawa Lakes Trust
Ngati Awa Māori Trust Board
Pukeroa Oruawhata Lands Trust

Ross Robertson
The Robertson Family Trust

Su’a William Sio
Win-Win Investments Limited – property

Whoopsy, own goal. Is Phil Goff seriously going to ask his own MPs to refrain from legitimately structuring their affairs to mitigate unconscionable rates of taxation? Well is he? Every half decent repeater should be asking that question.

Cactus has literally torn apart all of Goff’s “soak the rich” rhetoric and jammed back into his throat via his arsehole.

I’ll leave the last words to Cactus Kate.

These Labour MP’s are all taxed on their MP salaries at the top tax rate of 38 cents in the dollar, they are however according to Seat Warmer, using loopholes (legitimate tax structuring) just like the top 100 “rich pricks” in New Zealand to avoid paying 38 cents in the dollar on other income.

Seat Warmer has defined in this speech all trusts and company structures from an individual as avoidance. Yet Parliament intended for companies, trusts and individuals to be taxed at different rates. So how can any action to set up a company or trust even if for tax reasons be one of tax avoidance?

Seat Warmer will have to either equalise the rates, or the IRD will be a hell of a lot busier under his regime. He has mis-used the word “avoid” in this speech relating to tax. Avoidance is defined in NZ law and not legitimate behaviour.

When you realise however that only 10% of taxpayers are paying 76% of the tax, and your Party is on the centre-left, I guess it was a good speech appealing to your bludging supporters and their envy of your “rich prick” opponent.

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Wait, wait, it is possible that Phil Goff is onto something with his idea to cap Government sector salaries.

I propose that we cap them at the minimum wage.

The joke of his bleating today though was moaning “bludgers” who evade the top rate of tax as well as those at the other end “who dishonestly rip off the community for which they are not entitled; who think the rest of us own them a living, while they make no effort to help themselves.”

Uhmmm, if tax rates were at  rate where it just wasn’t worth it to dodge taxes then the problem would disappear. The system has become iniquitous when just 10% pay 73% of the taxes. Not only that it was Phil Goff’s participation in the previous government that enabled legislation that paid middle and upper income earners welfare and incentivised them to arrange their affairs in the most beneficial manner to them.

And that last bit, was that benny bashing? I’ll check the Standard, they call that at the slightest hint….oh wait..nothing there.

Phil Goff is an empty vessel and making a lot of noise.

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Audrey Young in today’s Herald talks about the up coming Labour caucus meeting which their rules say has to have a leadership vote. Could there be a leadership challenge on?

A few signs are pointing to one.

1. Phil Goff has been invisible over the Christmas break, even a lowly blogger, one who Goff wouldn’t front with, managed to get more air-time than him.
2. David “Silent T” Cunliffe has been missing in action on the economy. He has commented on the Tax Work Group recommendations. Perhaps he has spent his holidays mustering his forces and not focusing on his portfolio. Of course he could just be a lazy fuck.

The other sign that something is up is that my spies report that he is spending a great deal of time at the Hyatt gym with his personal trainer, traveling almost as far to train as his Luxury Herne Bay house is from his electorate. It is reported that “Silent T” is more and more fixating on his appearance anf fitness. Is he getting fit for the fight of his life and that of the Labour Party.

And why was Annette “Married to the Mob” King swanning around Sydney last week and filling her boots and frantically texting unknown persons in the Koru Club lounge waiting for the flight back. The constituents of Rongotai might wonder why their MP was troughing it up Sydney. I wonder who paid for that trip and if she flew Business Class. My spy is yet to report in on that one and the questions I requested the spy ask Annette “Married to the Mob” King.

The last and very important thing is why Audrey Young and other MSM don’t ask the obvious questions about Phil Goff.

Can Phil Goff retain Mt Roskill in 2011

Audrey clearly hasn’t looked at the numbers in Clevedon resident Phil Goff’s distant electorate of Mt Roskill.

National Party     14,346         BLUE, Jackie    NAT    12,197
Labour Party     14,533         GOFF, Phil    LAB    18,615

As you can see looking at the results from 2008, Labour narrowly beat National on the Party Vote, but Goff hammered both Labour & National’s Jackie Blue.

Just like the media kept asking John Howard if he was going to win Bennelong in the 2007 election, someone should ask Phil if he is going to win Mt Roskill in 2011 if the polls stay the same as they are now. A leader traveling the country is going to struggle if he is forced to fight for his own seat.

Before all you pro MMP pinkos start going on about the party vote being the thing that matters, losing your seat matters a lot because list MPs are scum. Resources and mana mean electorate MPs can pull up the party vote in their electorate.

If National got a decent candidate and ran a proper campaign every time Goff started bashing JK on something, JK could say “Phil mate, are you going to win Roskill?” which would be very discouraging for Phil.

The wobbly signs of insurrection are there if you look, but fortunately for Goff it doesn’t seem that “Silent T” could organise a root in a brothel let alone a leadership challenge.

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The pro tem leader of the Labour Party, Phil “Exit Lounge” Goff reckons he is flat stick telling the world about how great Labour is and more importantly how they have changed from the bad old days of Helengrad.

He has even got in the interwebs thingy and started tell the proletariat when he will be visiting them. Thoughtful of him, advising the populace in advance to make sure they don’t clog up phone b0xes for his meetings.

However, it seems his keenness for visiting the provinces which so convincing tossed Labour aside seems to have waned since August. (screenshot here if they amend the site)

So just what has Phil “exit lounge” Goff been doing since August? SFA I think.

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Labour closes ranks, backs Goff on speech – National – NZ Herald News.

Apparently the caucus is unanimously behind the tone and the content of the speech that Phil Goff Witi’d off Don Brash. It even had the same title FFS.

That is except this guy. Grant Robertson was going to express concerns and then out comes Phil Goff saying everyone was unanimous in him playing the race card. He poofed out, lost his bottle before the caucus, harden up Grant if you want to ever lead Labour.

Meanwhile Guyon Espiner made Chris Carter look like a complete dick. WTF is Carter on?

Funny how that works out. Don Brash was a racist in delivering a speech entitled “Nationhood” and the Labour caucus is united behind Phil Goff for delivering essentially the same speech.

Labour are cowards, they are heading the same way that National did in 2002. Filled with the wrong-headed belief that the public were mistaken and they will be back in next election they are consumed with hubris and show it.

Phil Goff is a dead man walking. It is only a matter of time before some-one knifes him. The question is who?

Clearly no single person has the numbers yet. Meanwhile Mallard shows a bit of sparc acting as the Vladimir Putin behind the throne, manipulating and setting traps for Goff.

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A reader has kindly reminded FCK of Parliament’s Inquiry into the future monetary policy framework, reported just over a year ago, when Labour had a majority on the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee. The report, written at the direction of former Minister of Finance Dr Cullen, was intended to re-enforce Labour’s commitment to bipartisan support for price stability and inflation targeting. Goff’s speech yesterday repudiated that commitment.

The key findings of the committee were (emphasis by FCK):

• confirms the importance of maintaining price stability as a vital component of a healthy and well performing economy.
• agrees that monetary policy remains the primary means for maintaining price stability.
• acknowledges that the Policy Targets Agreement between the Minister of Finance and the Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand recognises the important role price stability plays in supporting the achievement of wider economic and social objectives, and that it requires the Reserve Bank, in pursuing its price stability objective, to operate monetary policy in a manner that avoids unnecessary instability in output, interest rates, and the exchange rate.
• acknowledges that New Zealand’s monetary policy approach, emphasising central bank independence and inflation targeting, is standard among, small, open, and developed economies.
• acknowledges that New Zealand’s monetary policy operates in a similar manner to countries with wider mandates, such as Australia and the United States.
• acknowledges that at times of strong inflation pressures, the costs of maintaining price stability are often borne disproportionately by the export sector.
• acknowledges that a range of economic factors and resource constraints have contributed to recent inflation pressures and to how quickly monetary policy has affected inflation outcomes.
• acknowledges that factors other than monetary policy—such as sustained improvement in trend productivity—play a key role in lessening the adjustments required to maintaining low inflation over the medium term.
• believes that constraints on the availability of natural resources, particularly crude oil, are likely to be increasingly significant contributors to inflation.
• heard extensive evidence concerning supplementary stabilisation instruments, such as a mortgage interest rate levy, an interest-linked savings scheme, and other taxes that might complement interest rates in managing inflation, but did not find the arguments
  in their favour compelling enough to support them being pursued further at this time.

What’s fascinating is that Labour are now essentially repudiating their own inquiry, or at least arguing that price stability has a much great affect on the export sector and that it is incompatible with “wider economic and social objectives”. The question is, why? Charles Chauvel should have enough of a background in business (being a former board member of Minter Ellison Rudd Watts and Meridian Energy) to know that price stability is important to all sectors of the economy.

Update: The inquiry was not directly by Michael Cullen. Mea culpa.

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Labour leader Phil Goff has announced that the party is abandoning the bi-partisan consensus on monetary policy, and would remove inflation-based targets and thus the independence of the Reserve Bank if elected. Labour obviously doesn’t feel it pumped up inflation enough last time they were in office with their fiscal imprudence. Matt Nolan gives more of an insight here, looking at Cunliffe’s badly-put argument for abandoning price stability. Basically the argument is that a focus on inflation means we ignore exchange rates and employment, which is nonsense.

What intrigues FCK the most about this withdrawal from reality is the view that price stability is not important to working New Zealanders, and the current system only favours the rich. No Right Turn says:

people like John Key don’t see the value of their assets eroded by inflation. But its very, very bad for everyone else, with interest-rate driven spikes in unemployment and mortgage pain, and crashes in export earnings due to the resulting shifts in the exchange rate.

Always half-right, Idiot/Savant ignores the fact working New Zealanders also have assets to erode in value (KiwiSaver anyone?) and will be the first to be hit by rising prices for groceries and other consumer items, driven by higher rates of inflation, due to having lower disposable incomes.

Moreover, it’s businessmen like Olly Newland, Bob Jones and Alan Gibbs who benefit the most from higher levels of inflation. All of them made a killing in property development during the 80s because high levels of inflation gave them a higher return on capital from buying and selling property, much higher than they could expect with lower levels of inflation. Certainly, when the Reserve Bank Act 1989 was implemented it led to higher levels of unemployment, and has from time to time spiked and hurt homeowners. But higher unemployment largely subsided during the mid-1990s, and apart from a downturn during the 1998 Asian crisis has been improving ever since. Even today unemployment rates are only roughly equal to those seen in 2001, not 1991.

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Months ago Phil Goff told us all that he had informed his MPs that troughing on travel should be watched carefully.

Despite that the latest figures show that Labour MPs are the biggest troughers and Trevor Mallard has outed himself as a trougher by making sure he has some “important meetings” in London, coincidentally at the same time as a Rugby test at Twickers.

So it begs the question. Who is really in charge of Labour?

I ask because it seems Trevor is a law unto himself and ignoring the leaders requests but then who can blame him when Phil Goff leads the travel troughing stakes himself.

The candidates appear to be Trevor Mallard and David Cun(t)liffe, the man who finds that the banks failed to pass on a teeny tiny amount of the OCR drop and ignored such an inquiry when Labour were in government and interest rates were much higher and worse still ignores the gouging and usury against the poor to moan about a quarter of a per sent from banks. We know for sure that it ain’t Phil Goff.

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Labour, perhaps the biggest troughers known to man have been caught well and truly with their pants down by the Herald on Sunday, essentially running a polling scam out of Rick Barker’s office using funding from Phil Goff’s leaders budget under the control of senior MPs and former Ministers, Rick Barker and Darren Hughes.

The Labour leadership is embroiled in a murky polling operation run by a senior MP who has instructed volunteers to deliberately deceive people about their identities and the reason for their calls.

The polls were being run from Parliamentary offices by former Cabinet minister Rick Barker, who has admitted instructing staff to use false names and claim they were calling from a company that no longer exists.

Labour Party president Andrew Little last night said all polling was out of Phil Goff’s Leader’s Budget. Little said he knew nothing about the operation. “It would concern me very deeply,” he said.

Details of the polling emerged after a volunteer involved approached the Herald on Sunday claiming the practice was “unethical”.

Andrew Little has dropped his leader right in it by essentially speaking for him and telling us all that the taxpayer is funding Labour’s polling scam. Even better, it is a Green party member who has dobbed on this blatent abuse of taxpayer funds.

The volunteer, who is a Green Party member, said it was run by Barker and, when the volunteer participated, took place in Barker’s office at Parliament on October 14.

The volunteer said Barker instructed all the helpers, including a Parliamentary staffer, to say they worked for a non-existent company called “Data Research”, and to not disclose that they were really working for the Labour Party.Barker also told staff members they could make up names to use when calling members of the public.

Even worse, when initially approached by the HoS about his scam Rick Barker denied he knew anything about it, then called back to “clarify” his position, clearly the act of a guilty party. Darren Hughes has also tried to defend the indefensible.

Barker, when questioned, initially said: “I don’t know what you’re talking about”. When provided with details, including dates, Barker said he would call back.

Two hours later, Barker rang and admitted he had encouraged the use of false names by callers. He said he did so to make people feel more comfortable cold-calling.

“I told them: ‘You could use another name, if it makes it easier for you to make phone calls. For example, I could be Bill’.”

Labour whip Darren Hughes, who sits on the party’s leadership council, said he was aware of the polling. He said Barker had spearheaded three polls.

But Hughes defended the use of false names and for callers to not identify that they were representing the Labour Party.

“The name of Data Research was used to get as close to a scientific result as you could, to not influence results because of the way that people feel about a particular party.”

He said the use of false names in polling was common: “I’m sure that half the people try to sell us things on telemarketing aren’t giving us their real names.”

Hughes said the polling was legitimate use of Parliamentary resources because the results were used to understand what the public was thinking and to formulate policy.

The Labour Party once ran a business called Data Research as a polling company but the Companies Office Register says it was struck off in 1997.

So, lets just get this straight, using parliamentary funds from the leaders office, running a polling company out of parliamentary offices, using false names, using the name of defunct company, denying it all existed then saying the equivalent of  “Oh that polling”. Sounds like straight out fraud to me. Barker and Hughes are both List MP’s they should go immediately. This is simply unconscionable and reprehensible behaviour for those two.

Phil Goff also has failed to front. I think his demise must be imminent, with his mis-handling of the Richard Worth scandal, the non-management of the real leader of the Labour party Trevor “Putin” Mallard, the the ongoing debavle that is Chris Carter, it certainly looks like Goff’s days are numbered as leader.

A spokesman for Goff said the leader of the opposition was not available to answer questions, but he had consulted members of the leadership council and been told the method of polling carried out by Barker was a mistake. “It won’t happen again.”

Bryce Edwards, a politics lecturer at the University of Otago, said that the episode appeared to show a misuse of Parliamentary resources: “I would say that any phone polling at Parliament would fall foul of the rules.”

“This is very clearly partisan political activity, and pretty hard to sell as a legitimate use of Parliamentary resources.”

Privacy Commissioner Marie Shroff said the details of Barker’s polling operation raised serious questions and could breach the Privacy Act.

And all of the above shows precisely why the parliamentary Services should be immediately opned up and included in the OIA jurisdiction so that rorting and troughing of this most despicable kind can’t happen again.

Goff, Barker and Hughes should go, a new leaser should step up and then they can have the fun of having the tizard effect come into play as well.

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Some interesting information has come to light in the Richard Worth affair.

At the time of the fiasco questions were raised by this blog of the relationship between Mr Goff and the shy, unassuming housewife who allegedly approached Mr Goff after she was supposedly propositioned by Dr Worth.

Mr Goff has never explained how he knew Neelam Choudary or even the ongoing relationship that he had with Ms Choudary. In fact he went very quiet when the growing evidence of his involvement of the stitch up of Dr Worth mounted. What became clear is that Mr Goff pimped out the “strikingly beautiful” Ms Choudary as a honey-trap in order to score cheap political points against Dr Worth and National.

Laziness is often the undoing of people as many a lawyer and tax accountant will explain and it is laziness and lack of attention to detail that may well be the undoing of Mr Goff.

You see losing candidate in Botany electorate, still has his website up. Don’t worry about dropping now all you Labour flunkies who read this blog I have screen shots of every page.

On one of the pages are glowing references to Mr Goff and one Ms Neelam Choudary along with a number of photos. There are also other photos and posts which show that Neelam Choudary was an integral part of the campaign in Botany. Plus this one of Goff and Choudary together with Helen Clark.

Neelam Choudary has established an enormously strong network in the Indian community, and has consulted widely accross many of  India’s top business and political leaders.

Mr Goff’s timeline of events concerning the Labour sting operation on Dr Worth have never been adequately explained nor has his relationship to the “strikingly beautiful” Neelam Choudary. In fact Mr Goff several time changed his story and in light of this page left on the net by the lazy and the indlent in the wake of the destruction of the Labour party in 2008 it is rather embarrassing to say the least that the real relationship between Neelam Choudary and Mr Goff has now been revealed.

Perhaps Mt Goff might like to explain the circumstances of his “chance” meeting and subsequent advice to Ms Choudary in how to deal with Dr Worth in light of this new evidence? I’d certainly be interested to hear the real story of how the sting went down.

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If you happen to be an aspiring Labour leader but a c*nt, a lezzo, an immature in the closet ginga, a boofhead or lazy, taking down Goff who is none of these things could well take the following path.

Importantly, you have to understand that fear, uncertainty and doubt is your best weapon. Many of your caucus colleagues will be quietly crapping themselves because they will be worried that the next election could well see them out on their arse having to get a proper job, and the likelihood is that National wont be giving away plum positions to failed Labour MPs.

So you need to start propagating the message “I will save your job because I can get a shitload more votes than Phil, hell he’s even making Bill English look good”. It would help to be able to back this up with “how”, where by you need to start talking about how donors really like you so you can fund a campaign, the media will give you coverage and you can rebuild the party so there are a lot of activists on the ground campaigning.

The other thing to do is to white ant your leader and your competitors. Apart from the obvious Goff is tracking at 8%, you could also point out that he might actually be under pressure in his own electorate as he lives out of electorate and National only just lost the party vote there, and he hasn’t connected with the public, membership is down and funds are near non existent, the media are onto their rort with electorate offices etc. Then you start quietly talking about your competitors being:

1. A c*nt and unable to appeal to voters
2. A lezzo and NZ is not ready for an outed lezzo PM
3. Not old enough and a ginga, and in the closet, those trips with Paul Henry certainly didn’t help
4. Inclined to belt people
5. Wonder if he will ever get around to running for leader
6. No amount of brushing will cover up the bad punch and grow

The real bully will be when those stories start getting run through the press gallery, then we will also know which Labour MPs read the Whale and take his advice when they know it is sound and true.

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Phil Goff is trying to be hip and cool by riding to the Labour conference on a Triumph motorcycle. In 2005 Winston Peters was a “man for a change” riding in to his campaign launch on  a Harley. Ironically he was the bitch on the back and so it turned out, he was Helen’s bitch right to the bitter end.

Also ironically Phil Goff won’t rule out Winston being his bitch in the future either.

Is there now to be an electoral hoodoo for leaders of political parties who try to be cool and riding on motorbikes? In 2011 or sooner we will soon know.

Rather than looking hip and cool Phil Goff simply looked like a Boob on a Bike, perhaps Steve Crow should be giving Phil Goff a call to lead his Boobs on Bikes parade come 23 September.

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With her hopes of standing as Mayor of the socialist republic of Christchurch dashed by a nasty right wing blogger outing her plans, Is Lianne Dalziel pitching for a job?

I mean seriously, at a conference where Phil Goff and Labour desperately needed to shake off their moniker as a nanny-state, meddling bunch of thieving socialists they have managed to prove us all right by suggesting free rubbers at supermarkets and now another stupid Commission with an even stupider name.

I hope they run with these policies for the next election.

Then we had Phil Goff riding into conference on a motorcycle, now if memory serves me right didn’t Winston Peters do this once?

Labour continues to prove they are unfit to govern anything more than the local bowling club raffle.

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