A National Party supporter has contacted The Daily Blog and complained about our coverage of Bill English…
For God sake let it go. Yes some silly ( to young ) MP has made a big Cock Up and let his boss down. The PM and Nastional are doing a good job as anyone with any brains can see. This whole thing is being pushed by the media to try and show how good they are and by the other parties to cover up there total lack of ability.
The PM should not have to waste time on such an unimportant political game!
G Bennett
…well hold on there G Bennett.
Let’s go over your points.
1 – some silly ( to young ) MP has made a big Cock Up and let his boss down.
Yes, but the PM originally claimed he didn’t know about any tape, then admitted he did know about the tape, then attempted to claim that the tape didn’t exist and then admitted he had been asked to listen to the tape he claimed didn’t exist. This is no longer just about Todd Barclay doing something silly and letting his boss down, this is about Bill English’s judgment and attempt to mislead the country. That matters G Bennett.
2 – The PM and Nastional are doing a good job as anyone with any brains can see.
Ummmm, the 550 000 NZers living in hardship, the 41 000 homeless, the 250 000 children in poverty, entire generations locked out of home ownership, our fresh water, our groaning infrastructure, the 1600 dying from freezing houses each year and the 10 000 incarcerated might like to challenge you on your claim that ‘Nastional'(sic) are doing a good job.
3 – This whole thing is being pushed by the media to try and show how good they are and by the other parties to cover up there total lack of ability.
Ummmm, again, this has been a scoop via one news blog, I’m not sure they are trying to ‘show how good they are’ and the Opposition are challenging Bill English on his deception and leadership, that’s not covering up ‘there’ (sic) total lack of ability
4 – The PM should not have to waste time on such an unimportant political game!
Ummmmmm, the PM has lied, deceived and attempted to hide a huge payout to an MP who refused to work with the Police and it now turns out the secret recording relates to Todd Barclay and drugs.
That all kinda matters, but getting an insight from a National Party supporter helps remind us all how fucking cretinous and illiterate these people are.
“…media to try and show how good they are”,
interesting that Bennett sees the media as doing something that he deems as ‘good’ for a change, as being somehow ‘bad’.
This is what some of us have come to.
‘We’ are now uncomfortable with actual investigative journalism.
“Nastional”
pronounced ‘nasty onal’
That seems appropriate, well coined G Bennett !
Let’s also not forget that spoilt child Barclay first tried to smear the staffer involved by claiming that her dismissal was down to complaints about her conduct. The complaints were fictional. That’s just as bad or worse than the eavesdropping.
@ Richard Christie … I think G(ordon) Bennett meant to say Nastyanal in describing his beloved party. Nastional was a mistake on his part!
No, National voters are not all cretinous and illiterate. More stuck in the cognitive dissonance of refusing to acknowledge the damage their privileged position and allegiance to the party is doing while also refusing to acknowledge that they have this privilege. Add in ignorance, fear, arrogance and it is even less likely that most can ever confront the personal demons which prevent them from acknowledging their culpability in the damage they do to others.
Observant – I couldn’ have explained it the way you did but I understand completely what you are saying. I have colleagues who are far from cretinous and illiterate who are National voters and it never ceases to amaze me how they dodge having any sort of meaningful conversation over the corruption that is going on – a sort of vision of a small child clapping his hands over his ears because he doesn’t want to hear what you are saying. Just wanting to be left with their own illusions. It’s shameful – no other word for it and they have the privilege to be able to vote – frightens the hell out of me.
One told me that he had been shafted by the local MP in a business deal (including lying in mediation) but still voted for him.
That’s what we’re dealing with.
And so we keep hearing about how National are a safe pair of hands up to and including Susie Ferguson ending a wet bus ticket interrogation of English with “You have a reputation as a straight shooter, how do you feel about all this” followed by an open mike for 30 seconds to end the interview. It is amazing that this “Safe Hands” mantra persists with an administration pock-marked from start to date with scandal, corruption, arrogance and mismanagement.
A conniving and complacent media and a public with the attention span of a gnat conspire to perpetuate the myth.
The latest affront is to attempt to create a moral equivalence between the Barclay affair and the nothing-burger of “intern-gate”.
I sympathized with a hapless intern who expressed dismay at how the matter was handled by the New Zealand press, used as he perhaps was to a somewhat more liberal bias of American mainstream media.
I found myself laughing a hollow laugh and saying “welcome to New Zealand”.
Nine years of Nat scandals. Balance that against what? “Waimate-gate, Painter-gate and Credit-card-gate”.
See? They’re just as bad!
Martyn, I like your site, and am about to make a donation. Not big, because I am no longer working full-time, and if they cut super I won’t be able to snigger and say that I don’t care.
It bothers me a little that you attack this National supporter as being ‘illiterate’.
Several times in the past I have asked you to correct horrible spelling/grammar errors in your own posts. You have never bothered to do so or respond. You are articulate Martyn, but at times you are not always as literate as you are articulate. You are now using G Bennet’s illiteracy to attack him.
Bad spelling/grammar weaken his case, you are saying?
You sometimes weaken the effect of your own posts with poor literacy that will prompt right-wingers and maybe others to dismiss you in the same way. Get a secretary or someone to control your misuse of the apostrophe, at the very minimum.
Otherwise, criticise G Bennet for everything else except his literacy.
I tried to donate tonight, and using credit card seemed impossible. Details I had put in got deleted, and it kept asking me to use PayPal.
I gave up. Has your site been hacked again? (I can send a cheque if you give me a postal address.)
Bloody media, eh G Bennett?! We should’ve been lucky enough to live in Chile under General Pinochet, or my parent’s home-country during the Soviet Era. I tell you, G Bennett, there was none of this ‘free media lark’ there and then.
The media did what they were told by the Central Committee, or by the General’s henchmen.
Nothing but good news to read.
You’d’ve loved it. 😉
nice reply………
haha “anyone with brains….”
what a dick
Gordon Bennett? A play on words too?
I see what ‘observant’ and others like Kate have said being true among Nats I know but noses getting harder to hold.
Beyond the arrogance, denials and over explaining or re-inforcing of the undeniable now, the even sillier endeavours to make recordings evaporate by adding layers and levels of even more ludicrous contradictions and statements.
PoliticalLiquefaction still seeping and Melanie Reid not nearly as easy to dismiss as Nicky or others..
G(ordon) Bennett is typical of Natz supporters, when caught out in lies, deception and subterfuge! Always someone else’s fault when things go haywire for his beloved Nastyanal party!
Funny, in G(ordon) Bennett’s correspondence to TDB, he/she made no reference to previous corrupt rogue leader Key, who in typical cowardly fashion, walked, leaving someone else to take the flak for his sleaze and slime!
“For God sake let it go. Yes some silly ( to young ) MP has made a big Cock Up and let his boss down. The PM and Nastional are doing a good job as anyone with any brains can see. This whole thing is being pushed by the media to try and show how good they are and by the other parties to cover up there total lack of ability.”
So this National Party supporter wants to see a potentially illegal act swept under the carpet??
I thought Nat voters were really gung ho on being tough on crime? So I gather they’re tough on crime, unless it’s one of their own??
Words fail me.
theres a reason there called born to rule types
G Bennett – can you remember what it was like when we had REAL journalist in New Zealand. If you can, then you will KNOW National would have been gone in their first term, if we still did. Simple as that. Control the media, control the power. Follow the money and bribes right back to National. SS Joyce.
Try posting a negative review of Nashnull on any of their MPs FB pages or owned-media outlets, like the Herald, etc. and see how far you get, G. Bennett. NOWHERE. Any truthful revelations of the criminal and elitist foibles of your favoured party are meticulously removed and their authors banned, while government trolls are given free range on them.
Note how opposition pages are open to all, and used disgustingly by such trolls. This is censorship vs freedom.
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