Why McCully won’t be fired despite lies and bribery

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The point many seem to be missing when screaming for McCully’s head for clearly misleading everyone over this Saudi farm bribe is that McCully won’t be fired for one very simple reason – he’s covering for Key.

It was Key while he was in Opposition who assured Hmood Al Khalaf that live sheep exports would restart and that’s why Hmood Al Khalaf kept investing in the idea. When Key reneged on the offer after getting elected Hmood Al Khalaf’s grudge set in. Now National want a free trade deal with Saudi Arabia, they have to clean up this grudge that Hmood Al Khalaf has with the Government, hence the bribe and payoff.

Because McCully is cleaning up after Key, he won’t get sacked.

It only becomes dangerous for Key if this drags on and any other National MP starts questioning Key’s involvement in all of this. Seeing as Collins can’t because of her dodgy deals in the past with Oravida and Paula Bennett doesn’t have the mental agility to pick it up as an issue, that leaves Simon Bridges and seeing as most of the damaging leaks are coming from his Svengali – Mr Matthew Hooton – watch for any stirring from those corners.

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  1. For those who do not understand the opposition to the Trans Pacific free trade agreement what is occurring now with the Saudi’s is said to in fact mirror the some of the clauses of the TPPA,

    Opponents of TPPA say that this agreement provides clauses which allow private individuals or companies to seek compensation when their business is impacted by changing Legislation or rules,

    Dishing out the largesse such as what this particular Saudi businessman is receiving, besides giving every appearance of being bribery in an effort to secure a trade deal with the Saudi despotic regime,(Government), looks remarkably akin to what the opponents of TPPA have been warning against…

    • Bad12. …my sentiments exactly…this whole issue stinks .. It is so disgusting I am screaming with rage…what more ‘out right,’ Corruption
      do we have to lie down and accept.? for gods sake, at the same time the gnats have the audacity to keep cutting public services
      And where is the animal rights people on this as well. FFS!!!

      Yes it makes me sick … The Taliban as well have originated from the Wahabist fundamentalist religion out of Saudi …jus adding to others comments.

    • @ BAD12 – good points raised there.

      Puts the toxic TPPA in perspective, now we have actively seen what is possible in potential trade deals, which just about always favours the bigger and most powerful partner.

      Wonder what else Key sold us out on when he was in Saudi Arabia recently?

    • Interesting connection, Bad12, between the “paying off” of broken promises – (which is something that this government specialises in) and the “Multinational investor protection racket” clauses in the PPTA.

      I guess this is something we are all going to have to become accustomed to, in the shabby, mutinational dominated, ethically moribund future to which the PPTA signs us up.

      Thanks Tim Groser, John Key, Murray McCully for NOTHING!

  2. Paula Bennett, Simon Bridges – these are yes people. They only exist politically because they do someone else’s dirty work. So they will never do anything to upset Key

  3. As long as enough Kiwis can get a slice of the pie, it won’t hurt the Nats electorally. (Viz Sepp Blatter). New Zealand plan to vote for the besmirched (see no evil?) head of FIFA again this weekend.

    Anyone else see a pattern?

    While the gravy train rolls on and the opposition is weak or divided, they will both be hard to dislodge. New Zealand is still, by and large, cosy.

    (All it will have cost us is an earthquake and it’s consequent insurance payout (followed by enormous jumps in insurance costs for the rest of the country), an increasingly polluted natural environment as inappropriate land is converted to dairy all over the country, a housing crunch, dropping living standards for many as wages fail to keep up with rising rents and rates, massively reduced funding to the service sector and 100 billion in public debt to keep the party going).

    I think we have to understand that John Key, and by extension his cohorts, probably see nothing wrong in anything they have done. After all this is a man who became rich as one of those non-speaking parts on “The Wolf of Wall Street”. A man who formed his moral compass in perhaps the most corrupt and ultra-money driven boom in history. His main triumph was getting out before the crash.

    A goofy, where’s Wally now? delight in selfies with the rich and famous and sychophantic interviews with supporters, (along with a cargo-cut belief that since he’s rich he must be smart – a conclusion we do not offer Kim Kardashian, or really anyone else) while the Conservative, unimaginative, earnest Bill English and the combative, manipulative Steven Joyce pull the strings behind the scenes. This is enough until the economy hits the inevitable wall.

    The best thing for those who wish for another approach is to establish a consistent, inclusive, alternative path that will be intact when the country is ready to change direction.

    One concept might be to militate against deprivation. Of course the deprived include socially and financially deprived, but it does not end with them. Everyone in the country suffers in some measure from a badly run country in pursuit of short-sighted, self-serving and ignorant advantage. This is something that can attract informed self-interest from across the social divide without compromising egalitarian objectives.

    Just as the Right have a blind spot over public intervention, so the Left sometimes overlook the contribution members of the private sector can play when they are not gratuitously vilified, and can see a worthwhile objective.

    (Perhaps many, many farmers can be helped and encouraged with clear targets to clean up their farms without threatening them with penalty , while the well-off might be pursuaded to unilaterally forgo Superannuation as a mark of public-spirited financial success. I would look at cooperative endeavour way before I looked at mandate, just as I believe the publication of Highest to Lowest figures on salaries among corporations would have the desired effect before I would dream of legislating. Let’s see what can be achieved voluntarily. We may be surprised).

    It is on us to develop national objectives that offer a more desirable outcome for enough of the country to counter the “greed (and selfish advantage) is not only good, it is the only game in town”. The only way to get there is to offer a vision where everyone can see their place – and like that place.

    It has to be pretty hot in the kitchen before turkeys will vote for Christmas-as-usual. But they might just vote for a vegetarian Christmas.

  4. Thanks to Key and Co New Zealand is starting to look as honest as a FIFA official.

    This bribe that New Zealand made to some Saudi connection really set the standard for anything that followed namely the opaque Warner Bros deal and the mega dodgy SkyCity convention centre deal. There will be others, less glamorous but they will probably involve government contracts to smooth the waters, to quell embarrassing media exposure.

    So no wonder Collins thought the Oravida trip was perfectly acceptable given the rouges she is in government with, because this latest dodgy deal, that started even before they got to be into government, is infinitely worse.

    Who the hell knows what else has gone on, pay off’s, back handers and bribes have been made for reasons we citizens will never get to know.

    But as someone correctly pointed out, as long as the Auckland housing bubble continues, and the laughably named “Rock star economy” keeps the bullshit façade going, voters wont give a damn.

  5. I was wondering where these leaks were coming from. It’s clearly not investigative journalism. Is it really Hooten? Why would he be doing that?

  6. Would be a great story for the final Campbell Live to cover – JC holding JK’s feet to the fire!

  7. Excellent post, Nick. Sady I have to agree 100% with pretty much all of what you have said. A very insightful posting indeed!

  8. There definitely has to be a change for the better. Preferably before the next election, but not necessarily so.
    Key and his minions have got very cocky, only because nobody can hold National accountable, thanks to Key hand picking connections to block any manuovering of opposition, starting with Carter as House Speaker, to GCSB connections, Mediaworks, and his most recent placement of an ex Nat involved with DoC issues. Key is forming a noose that’s putting the squeeze on the people and the county.
    I can only hope like many others, that Keys noose slips from its hold, and finds itself around Keys scrawny neck.

  9. Anyone else having a hard time trying to imagine any National MP questioning John Key and Murray McCully’s ethics and integrity ?
    They all bow down when Donkey Jonkey enters the room and are blinded to the truths. Glassy eyed – out of touch puppets asking how high do we jump. Murray has blindly promoted TPPA and trade with the Saudi’s jumped through big hoops for his healthy gifts, while our country loses. Most National MP’s will follow Jonkey and McCully right to the bottom of the cess pool. Most of them are corporate lackys; supporting privatization and resource theft and likely getting paid to promote greed and denial at the expense of jobs, sovereignty, peoples rights and environment safety and protection.

    Isn’t it also about pasture time for McCully as well ? ? ? Seems like a bunch of these older white men need to be retired to make room for some folks with sane minds and integrity and ethics we can support and admire.

    • ‘Seems like a bunch of these older white men need to be retired to make room for some folks with sane minds and integrity and ethics we can support and admire.’- folks with sane minds and integrity and ethics in the National party?!!

      • Hardly Brian, the national (barely led) govt. have failed us and they and most do not even see it. They now control (and likely own?) most of the NZ media. If sheep follow a leader who is a compulsive liar and out of touch with most New Zealanders and is close with corporate greed and other Big Boy U.S. lap dogs, then they follow down into a sad state of affairs. Rock star economy B S.

        Not much integrity and ethics when our country is being sold to the highest bidder and everything is being privatized to support greed, while the lies go on about how well off most are. Just those at the top are sipping expensive lattes in Ponsonby cafes and being warm and fed well this winter. Many struggle with food and utility bills and many either do not have a home or live in one that is not safe or warm. Many are being abused and raped regularly and living one pay check to the next while violence and military style police and suicide continues to grow. And now a violent and fear producing cop show replaces Campbell Live. Great ethics and integrity there. Guess who was behind the demise of Campbell Live ? ? Guess who brought on yet another violent cop show ? ? Guess why ? ? Brainwash and control the masses.

        Wake up voters, this National led govt. ( as with most govt’s ) have already been bought, just as with most media by CORPORATE GREED. Lobby Lobby Lobby some more and pay outs pay outs and pay outs and secret meetings for law changes and protection and trade agreements that benefit them mostly.
        WAKE UP – our sovereignty is at stake, our freedom of speech is at risk. Journalists and bloggers are being threatened and murdered regularly now.

        So they spend less on social services and more on what mostly does not work for the people. We the people ! deserve to be heard and treated fairly and put ahead of selling/buying arms and resources and smoozing with corporations. Most are sick and tired of this greed.
        This same greed that supports perpetual wars for mostly profits, weapons trades
        and mineral and resource theft, etc.

        Murray McCully and Hillary Clinton and John Kerry and John Key and Joyce – isn’t it time to call it quits and relieve yourselves ? ?
        If Tony Blair can do it so can you.

        https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/category/tpp/

        http://www.infowars.com/tpp-trade-deal-a-disaster-other-countries-will-dupe-us-donald-trump/

        http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_trans-pacific_partnership_and_the_death_of_the_republic_20150426

        http://www.openureyes.org.nz/blog/?q=node/5676

  10. The pharmaceutical corporation’s interests in the TPPA is massive and their sole interests are in profit and pushing medications. McCully and English and Key support this trade agreement that is more about corporate greed than about healthy trade. To use the term, ” Free Trade ” is misleading when referring to TPPA and Michelle Boag from Q & A is very much pro-TPPA. She is biased and misleading the NZ public about TPPA.

    http://www.infowars.com/tpp-death-pool-more-pharmaceutical-destruction-is-coming/

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