Speaker of the House Trevor Mallard to formally step down on Wednesday afternoon
Speaker of the House Trevor Mallard will formally resign from the role at 1.45pm on Wednesday 24 August.
Look.
I didn’t ever like Trevor Mallard.
I respected him.
But I didn’t like him.
Every time we’ve met, he’s been a smug condescending prick and I see no chance of him ever changing.
But I respect him.
I believe he’s passionate about the due process of democracy.
I believe he’s been one of the best Speakers.
I believe he respected the role and the mana of the Speaker.
When Labour tried to gerrymander select committee meetings, he’d punish them with extra questions to the Opposition in the House.
He was someone who gave 30+ years of public service and that, regardless of what Party you are in, is remarkable.
But I also think he’s an unlikeable prick with a terrible short man syndrome that has left him with two chips on both shoulders and a breath taking capacity to ‘go there’ physically at the drop of a hat.
There’s no threat Trev can’t overkill.
And that was ultimately is undoing.
His over protective nature to his team caused two enormous blunders that blight his otherwise bright career.
One was devastating for the individual involved, the other we have yet to fully appreciate the damage of.
His first blight was his bewildering desire to get down with the woke kids at Parliament with their new definition of rape which amounted to an unwanted hug. To come out and declare a staffer of being rapist using the new definitions of woke micro aggression policing was an example of Poppa Bear Trev getting all growly and over defensive for those he saw protecting.
It ended up costing us $330 000!
Parliament’s Speaker Trevor Mallard costs taxpayer $333,000 after rape allegation
Speaker Trevor Mallard has cost the taxpayer more than $333,000 after a parliamentary staffer he accused of rape pursued legal action, and the National Party now says it can no longer support Mallard in the job.
The figure, revealed to the National Party in a written parliamentary question, includes a $158,000 settlement payment from the Speaker to the staffer, $171,000 to cover legal fees, and $4641.70 for Crown Law advice to the former deputy speaker.
Mallard on Tuesday afternoon publicly apologised to the staffer, saying, in a statement, he had been wrong to describe the allegation as rape, and apologised for the “distress and humiliation” this caused the staffer.
The statement was slipped under the Stuff press gallery office door on Tuesday afternoon, hours after the Royal Commission on the March 15 terror attack released its report. It did not detail the cost of the settlement.
For the Staffer it was an egregious destruction of an entire career so Trev could feel protective.
The other blight to his legacy however is more dangerous and far more frightening.
His handling of the Dumb Lives Matter protestors on Parliament’s Lawns provoked and escalated this violence while recruiting and radicalising thousands!
REMEMBER! By the end of Wednesday, the factions within this ‘movement’ were already turning on each other with various groups criticising other faction leaders.
They hadn’t been able to use their numbers to seriously threaten Parliament and they were already leaving because of internal disputes over the attempt to force conflict on the Wednesday.
This was a protest movement the was dying on Thursday morning!
That all changed when Trev had a spurt of blood to the head, and got all grumpy protector bear and ordered the State to clear the lawn…
…Let’s be very fucking clear.
He didn’t have to do that, and he shouldn’t have done that!
He immediately created a common enemy for the protestors while live streaming a 10 hour recruitment video to the country!
That weekend there were 5 times the number of protestors!
His basic bitch warehouse bargain basement psy-ops using the spraying of water and loud music at night which provoked the riot on Parliament’s lawns combined with his Office trespassing politicians from Parliament made this a cluster fuck of gasp inducing enormity.
The reason the wider Left are so silent on criticising Mallard’s actions (as seen in the zero criticism of him in Stuff’s Fire and Fury middle propaganda) is because many of the Middle Class Wellington Marxists screamed for the Police to bash the smelly lumpenproletariat Nazis because they had their work from home privilege threatened by angry scary brown poor people whom they claim at Wellington dinner parties to care about.
This is woke edge lord Clint Smith, high priestess of the Wellington woke demanding Andrew Coster be sacked for not bashing the smelly lumpenproletariat Nazis…
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At Helen Kelly’s Funeral in Wellington, Mallard stood and recounted his personal trauma in the wake of the Pike River disaster asking Helen, ‘what could I have done differently to have prevented that’.
I fear the true legacy of radicalised hate Trevor planted on the lawns of Parliament have yet to bloom their harvest of malice and that he may well be standing at another political memorial in the future asking the exact same question.
If I were Trev, I’d want to be on the other side of the planet when that poison bag of violence bursts too.
Trevor Mallard – a radical legacy blighted .
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Please can we have that slide picture for political captions? And what is following duckie down the slide – is it someone else or a bag containing sensitive revealing documents?
@GW it’s the fallout from Mallard’s protest response. He got off at the bottom and is walking away leaving it to land on whoever is left behind.
It would be great to have a job that when you stuff up instead of a DCM you get a cushy role in a pleasant foreign country to wine and dine the locals with NZ produce . If there was any justice he would at least be going to the Ukraine as a special ambassador
I enjoyed the games he played in parliament. I thought he was a very good speaker of the house. Far from perfect as a human being, but who is really. Just a regular kiwi bloke with a sly and dry sense of humor. The Irish will sort him out, or he’ll fit right in. haha!
He certainly wasn’t liked by Seymour yet Seymour didn’t have a problem with David Carter. That makes Seymour the biggest hypocrite in parliament.
Sharna doesn’t shy from making his points while the public is still looking.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/473418/gaurav-sharma-hijacks-speaker-ceremony-to-accuse-trevor-mallardTwo weeks ago, I contacted the … former Speaker and I went to talk to him about some of the issues I was having and whether I could get legal support in my case.
“The Speaker said ‘If you raise anything about a Labour colleague, any challenges, it would be the end of your career’. And then the Speaker ended up going to the whips office, the Labour whips office, right after that to tell them that I had actually laid a complaint against the party and the whips,” Sharma said in Parliament.
Labour said that he wasn’t properly honouring the new Speaker and dismissed his points. But it’s all a bit dusty and gritty in politics at the present, and only a veneer of civilisation and reason over it all I think.
If Te Reo had testicles he would offer to recall Mallard before lunchtime on his first day as PM and threaten to take his expected knighthood off him. He won’t and they will become best buds on Te Reo’s first European jaunt.
An absolute turd of a politician. Never met him so can’t judge him as a human.
Of course he’ll get a knighthood, if the most bias in our political history David Carter could get one, anyone can.
Remind us who reinstated these things and why did Labour not get rid of them we aren’t mother England.
Your post is appreciated. I understand Mallard’s history in politics better because of it. I do though remember reading your equally harsh words about the protesters. I think you were both unfair.
I see that Trevor Mallard has been trampled on by the left and the right alike but this hasn’t been altogether unwarranted
I’m told he was a very good electorate MP.
I think his appointment to Ireland runs the risk of further putting in a glass ceiling at MFAT.
The Irish don’t need help or luck its us that needs help, little NZ as for Trev he will be great with all his worldly experience.
Of course CIP, Trev will be a perfect fit only an idiot would see his posting as an insylt.
Trevor Mallard, Minister for the Americas Cup. So left.
Should read insult. Sorry struggling with new keyboard and computer I bought as part of Andrew Littles brilliant N.Z.Health settlement package.
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