EnglishGate Update: National Party Goon threatens, intimidates and bullies staff member

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Martyn Bradbury
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One of the many wondrous insights we have been given into the National Party has been how National Party Goons moved into threaten staff who were complaining about Barclay illegally spying on them…

Taping scandal: National Party board member who advised Glenys Dickson to withdraw Todd Barclay complaint named

The National Party board member said to have talked to the woman allegedly bugged by MP Todd Barclay about withdrawing her complaint to the police was Glenda Hughes, the Herald has been told.

Newsroom reported that within weeks of laying a complaint with police about the alleged secret recording, Dickson spoke to a National Party board member.

She was quoted saying: “I was told if I didn’t withdraw the police complaint I could potentially take down the National Party, and there was an [implication] that if National didn’t have Barclay in Parliament they were one short to pass legislation.”

Dickson said the board member told her a high-profile court case would be hard on her and her family.

Newsroom reported: “The board member explained to me if I withdrew my complaint I would be considered a hostile witness and the police would have not had a case.”

Inquiries by the Herald have revealed Hughes was the board member Dickson referred to as making the call.

…so a National Party Goon, Glenda Hughes, a board member of National’s ruling council no less, contacts the staff member Barclay has been spying on and effectively bullies and intimidates the staff member into dropping the case.

How heavy and vicious is that?

The threatening nature of the intimidation is something that the National Party must now front up and explain, alongside Bill English’s own deceptions and lies.

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This doesn’t end with Barclay standing down.

 

26 COMMENTS

  1. They can’t outsource their bullying and intimidation anymore now that their dirty politics crew has been exposed.

    The National partys underhanded dishonest and unethical behaviour, including trying to intimidate someone into silence, will be no surprise to many of National’s political opponents but it must be very upsetting for a loyal long serving member like Glenys Dickson when they realise the depth of the rot within the party. Good on her for standing up to them.

    • This is the irony. If National are prepared to do this to one of their own, what are they capable of doing to the rest of the population.

      This is not an isolated case. Simon Bridges trying to influence an OIA so as not to allow information to be shared and how many times have we heard Key state”I can’t remember”

      The most disturbing fact is that Glenda Hughes is an ex-police officer and that the Police dropped the case because of insufficient evidence. Barclay stated that he would comply with Police requests, yet then declined. I ask who advised Barclay to lie low? Was Hughes involved?

      • Indeed. Glenys Dickson was advised that if she dropped her complaint she would be considered a ‘hostile witness’ by the police and the case would no longer be pursued. Now that it has emerged that the person offering that advice was a former police officer herself, it casts the situation in a very different light.

      • The most disturbing fact is that Glenda Hughes is an ex-police officer and that the Police dropped the case because of insufficient evidence.

        Indeed, Hughes is a former police officer.

        If the allegations are true, then Hughes could be charged with perverting the course of justice or obstruction.

        What else can one call it where a witness is persuaded not to co-operate with a police investigation?

        If Glenys Dickson signs a statement to this effect, a lorry-full of shit is about to be dropped onto a very large fan, from a very great height, aimed squarely at Bill English’s head.

        At this moment, Andrew Little has the ‘best job’ (Leader of the Opposition) and Bill English the worst (Prime Minister and target for a lorry-full of shit).

        Stay tuned to Radio NZ, folks. My guess is that there is more to come on this.

        • “If the allegations are true, then Hughes could be charged with perverting the course of justice or obstruction.”

          Thank’s Frank. One can only hope.

          As Winston stated, this illegal act is punishable by a 2 year imprisonment sentence, which is clearly why Barclay was protected left, right and center. All those that aided and abetted Barclay need to be held to account, rather than allowing people like Mike Hosking to say it was a nothing story. To Mike Hosking… you support illegal practices do you?

          • Mike Hosking saying it was a nothing story?
            Mike Hosking supporting illegal practices?

            Mike Hosking supports Mike Hosking.
            Mike Hosking supports the National Party.
            Mike Hosking supports the National Party Prime Minister.
            Mike Hosking supports the power those things give him.

          • I think you’ll find that if this scandal had been a Labour Party affair, Hosking would have been screaming about how it was eating at the foundation’s of New Zealand’s democracy (which it is).

            However, since it’s the Nats, Mike says it’s a “beltway issue” of little significance to anyone outside of parliament or the Clutha-Southland branch of the National Party.

            Hosking may be a conceited fuckwit but he’s not stupid. He’s well aware that there’s almost certain to be dramatic drop in demand for his personal brand of journalistic dog-shit if NZ has a change of government. Therefore he’ll do all can to keep the current mob in power for another term.

  2. Turn the cleansing light of day on this shit heap and boom, watch the National Party cockroaches scatter.

    We have been privileged to see the REAL National Party and it’s filthy little workers who live in the shadows hard at work.

    Of all the MP’s who have gone over the course of the Key English government and there been plenty, how many if not all had their “retirement” date set for them? How many were threatened or paid off? Is this why there is such a masonic silence from this organization, why no one but no one speaks out after they are terminated?

    You expect this from a gang, you don’t from a political party!

    • Its called the Jason Ede / Ian Fletcher syndrome. And it has many facets available in how it can be carried out.

      Financial pay outs , threats , ‘ sacrificial lamb treatment ‘ and of course , good old smear and shame or the ‘ obscurity method ‘… a comfortable yet meaningless out of the way ‘ diplomatic appointment’ in the middle of nowhere …

      Didn’t they use to do this in Moscow at some stage?….

  3. I wondered how long it would be before a “gate” came along.

    I thought the Barclay Debacle would be more suitable.

  5. All good but, after todays scandal about Labour volunteers being attracted from overseas, raising questions about whether they get enough advocates here for the election, I also ask, who is paying donations to Labour, not only the damned Nats get money from business, as Mike Williams boasted on Nine to Noon, how much Labour would have got from business recently:
    http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/201848016/political-commentators-matthew-hooton-and-mike-williams

    I am totally disillusioned and will protest vote this election, I had enough, full enough, thank you.

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