The worst part of the Treasury leak hack was how right Hooton was – Jesus I hate that.
Simon Bridges has climbed Mt Martyrdom quicker than a millennial snowflake at the electric bike Outrage Olympics.
He’s never before been so insulted, this is the worst abuse of him ever, he has never been so disgusted etc etc etc. He needs a trigger free safe space and an emotional support peacock. Don’t think that Simon doesn’t know how to marshal all the victimisation pop culture values and exploit them mercilessly. He is a slow learner, but has picked up the pace.
He starts off by accusing Grant of playing politics when it was Simon who was spitefully leaking Treasury information, his faux umbrage is an audacity beyond credibility.
But it’s bloody effective.
Bridges has built this molehill into a Mt Everest Mountain and Treasury are dying on top of it. He is robbing the Government of their Well being Budget right now and if Grant doesn’t sack someone immediately from Treasury, Jacinda should sack Grant.
Simon is arguing that Treasury were incompetent, and with the full glare of the facts now out, that is a fair criticism, so yes there was a public interest in revealing Treasury’s incompetence, but there is NO public interest in releasing that information! Bridges wasn’t wrong to expose the incompetence, but Bridges WAS wrong to release the information, his point blank refusal to acknowledge that is sulky and teenage.
Simon Bridges performance and angry storming off from the media made Brett Kavanaugh look a lot less melodramatic but this was his best performance since his leadership begun. Simon’s position as leader is safe now, he has hurt the Government badly today.
The most telling part of the Simon Bridges climb to Mt Martyrdom press conference was when Mine Craft accidentally flashed up as they demonstrated the hack/leak/Treasury incompetence. It managed to sum up everything and more.
Great write up.
No one cares Simon.
Every one of you clowns in parliament and the grey inept bureaucrats supporting you look like absolute toolbags.
Dirty politics – ‘part two’.
Welcome to yet another ‘National Government where dirty politics reigns supreme to achieve their goals.’
Oh for God’s sake, all politics is dirty.
Labour would have done the same thing.
This won’t dent Labour’s re-election chances but it will postpone the inevitable demise of Bridges and destroy at least another person’s career, and quite rightly so.
Simon Bridges performance is surely influenced by his previous occupation as a Crown Prosecutor. His indignant display of irritated high dudgeon served the National Party’s desire to distract the Media from the budget coverage. The Media needed little encouragement to cover Bridge’s attempt to distract from his and his party’s unethical breaching of budget confidentiality rules.
no problem with sacking Mr Robertson, it would be a good move and allow the Govt. to smash the fiscal cap to pieces and get on with some “transformative” action
Bridges looks like a petulant weasel through the media lense to me, but what do National supporters really think of his behaviour?
They should sack Robertson but they won’t as there is probably no body competent enough to replace him.
With regards to the fiscal cap good luck with that!
It’s Government policy not Robertson’s and National would bludgeon Labour to death at the next election if they scrapped it.
Simon’s faux outrage this morning was so transparent and lame, it had my eyes were rolling so far back I could see inside my skull (not pretty). No one should resign over this. So what if National released the Government’s budget early – it wasn’t like we weren’t going to get to see it anyway just a few days later. Yes it takes a tiny amount of wind out of Labour’s sails on actual budget day… but other than that, what harm has really been done? Yep, NONE. This is classic mountain out of molehill (at best) politics.
I’ve just watched the Budget presentation and speeches. It addresses a lot of areas of concern in our country. Bridges tweeted that we’d all be disappointed thinking ‘what’s in it for me’ but I’m we’re not all that self centred. It’s a budget looking after the needs of people for once. Business of all types weren’t forgotten so there is little to disagree with and the fact that rail is getting a large injection is music to my ears. I say well done to Robertson and the coalition and Bridges hissy fits are irrelevant. (His speech was all over the place and often not about the budget at all).
Nice tie. Great colour. Still haven’t figured out which dot is the beaver though.
Could work well in yellow too. Sunset purple.
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