Dear Phil Twyford – Kia kaha Comrade

1. TO Phil Twyford. Minister of Transport.

   We are in full support for yourn gracefullness also Phil.

   Stay the course as your portfolio as transport minister is far to importamnt to the nation to bne in your hands not some newbee that does not know how vital for example regional rail freight policy is to the nation as you know in HB/Gisborne we export 34% of the counties total products and almost all is now (transported only on road) which is now costing the country $ billions in road repairs and deaths!!!!

   So rail freight is badly needed and ‘you are the man to carry this project forward.’

   Kia Kaha comrade.

   • OMG, you are STILL bleating on about your bloody railway, and here was you thinking it would be up and running by now with a new Govt…..how is that disappointment working out for you cleangreen? nothing this year or next…2020 perhaps? 🙂

     • and here was you thinking it would be up and running by now with a new Govt

       In just seven months, Imright? After it took nine years for National to undermine Kiwirail?

       As the saying goes, miracles take a bit longer. Especially to fix up National’s “prudent economic stewardship”. (Sarc marks still needed?)

2. It appears that National’s targetted vendetta against Twyford has moved into the realm of the ridiculous;

   Newshub can reveal Phil Twyford may have broken another serious aviation rule.

   His ministerial responsibilty for civil aviation was taken off him on Thursday after he admitted using a cellphone on a flight.

   But now he’s being accused of breaking another law by standing up out of his seat as the plane was moving to the runway.

   ref: http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2018/05/did-phil-twyford-break-another-aviation-rule.html

   If that’s TV3’s lead-story, it must be a slow news-day.

   What next; Phil Twyford sneezes? Phil Twyford farts? Phil Twyford got up in the morning and scratched his arse?

   This is how pathetic National has become.

   Meanwhile, Judith Collins still has questions to answer over Oravida:

   Oravida was having problems getting its milk into China last year in the wake of the Fonterra botulism scare.

   [Judith] Collins had dinner with Oravida executives and a Chinese border control official while on the trip in October.

   The dairy exporter has donated around $65,000 to National Party coffers. But she says she knew nothing of their border control woes and the Beijing dinner was private.

   Documents obtained by Labour show that by December, Oravida’s products were being cleared for import. However, milk from another company, Guangzhou Ruima Food Limited, was not accepted.

   Both export the same two litre bottles from supplier Green Valley Dairies.

   Robertson says Collins’ “intervention” was “designed to benefit Oravida”.

   […]

   She has reiterated that she knew nothing of Oravida’s border control problems.

   […]

   Collins said she wasn’t aware of Oravida’s border woes.

   “I’m not involved in the detail of the company at all,” she said.

   “My office and I have nothing to do with the business of Oravida.”

   ref: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/10013696/Judith-Collins-regrets-Oravida-interactions

   Tit-for-tat?

   Is this Collins’ revenge for being exposed in her dealings with Oravida?

3. I am rather tempted to think that Phil Twyford saw an opportunity there to get his head out of a noose, so to say, and resign for good, so he would no longer have to find excuses for not being able to deliver the KiwiBuild brand policy as had initially been signaled and boasted about.

   Jacinda only took his CAA part of responsibility off him, he is left stuck in his remaining jobs, and may have to come up with other attempts to get fired?!

   But really, how many car drivers use their mobile devices every day, illegally, while driving? I see it ALL the time, and nobody seems to be doing much at all about it. Perhaps Phil was just too stressed and forgot about the rules for a moment?

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