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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A neo-liberal. Good riddance.
What is a neo liberal Castro.
Personally I didn’t think Mallard was that bad. He was somewhat drowned out by the bleating of the tightyrighty who had 9 years of having it their own way and just had to throw their toys out of the cot.
Angry Chris Bishop will be beside himself at having no one to shout at.
Sure Mallard made some cockups but at least he had a position which is more than Luxon has. Luxon can’t even say if he could work with the Tamaki ferrals. A straight yes or no is just beyond him. Must be a nightmare waiting for him to order at a restaurant.
Just looked up the definition of neo liberal.
Looks like you’re mixing Mallard up with the NatActs.
Go away and get sorted Castro.
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.
Trevor served himself for 30 years, not the public
Well said Nathan. Yes just another career, self serving public servant in it for his own personal gain and ego.
Mallard will do his time in Ireland then come back home and make the New Years or Queens birthday honours list and receive the mandatory gong which will entitle him to line his pockets some more by becoming some sort of a consultant/ government advisor. How fucking predictable and boring.
Exactly. MB you make it sound like Trev did 30 years hard “Labour” at significant personal sacrifice.
A less generous view would be: he’s had his snout in the trough for 30 years; because outside the public service, he’d find it very hard to get a job. And zero chance at the money he’s been on.
plus 1 mick
at least the loathsome thatcher had intelligent psychopaths in her cabinet all the modern west can offer is failed middle managers with mail order MBAs
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.
“ most bias”
“Kindy Bob”
Remind us who reinstated these things and why did Labour not get rid of them we aren’t mother England.
Just as I thought we were agreeing on many things, you say this Martyn.
I 100% disagree.
I do not see one redeeming feature. We’ve had some bad speakers, Carter and Wilson were pretty poor but Mallard sunk to new levels of incompetence. Speakers should be like good refs, you don’t even know they’re there. Not Mallard, he made it all about himself.
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.
The Irish don’t deserve him.
Do they have a choice?
Thanks, Tane/Male/ Who cares if Mallard gets a knighthood/ damehood ? Just give it to him, but let’s spare Eire the Mallards, it deserves better.
This is Ireland of the poets, the mystics, the martyrs, the sufferers, the starving, and the dispossessed whose diaspora shaped the colonial world in ways not necessarily self-serving, and philosophically superior to the tyrants who treated their dogs better than they did their Irish and Scottish serfs.
Dublin is the Dubliners of James Joyce whose every story touches universal chords, the Abbey Theatre where they still create and maintain the gift of being able to laugh at themselves in a way incomprehensible to victim- obsessed outliers like our dimwit idiot identity politics parliamentarians; the old women hovering around lay-bys claiming tariffs for land which they say the government stole; Poles reviving Catholicism so far from their own lands. Leave them alone. Send them a dry diplomat,or rustle up a provincial cow cocky, or an expert flax weaver, or anybody with the ability to tread softly, but not some crude damn Philistine who should never have been let out of Johnsonville. Johnsonville on Ireland. Cruel.
Of course they do.
It’s a perfect payback for beating us at rugby in our own back yard.
I see that Trevor Mallard has been trampled on by the left and the right alike but this hasn’t been altogether unwarranted
Can people have a look at his Ministerial roles ; Helen Kelly would have told you he was the best Education Minister she had dealt with ; and he was a great Minister of Labour ; he got things done. So in the scheme of things, turning on the sprinklers at Parliament during a violent protest is pretty insignificant.
Darien F. What do you mean by saying “ he got things done ?” Done so well that our kids – excepting the Asian imports – are failing in the school system, crashing globally in maths and science, and enjoying record levels of truancy, while armchair critics trash teachers safely from the sidelines. I don’t think you know what you are talking about. Do you think Joanne Kidman and Elizabeth Kerekere are edifying examples of contemporary tertiary academia ? I don’t – and I’ve worked in that milieu.
Those sprinklers turned on overnight on children, women, et al, during unseasonably cold wet windy Wellington weather were indefensible, flew in the face of the police authority, and garnered support and people from all over New Zealand, not always for particularly edifying reasons. The impact was multi-faceted and clearly more so than you seem able to comprehend.
The protest was not violent at the time when Mallard ordered the sprinklers on. It was petering out. There was some violent talk, and there had been threatening talk from some demonstrators, but there were no identifying leaders or violence advocates or violent activity prior to Mr Mallard’s actions.
Sure he has. A bit like these clowns in the the 1980s and early 90s.
https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/someone-elses-country-1996
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.
How many schools did he shut down? Was it 200?
Funny how when Hekia Parata closed down a few schools the left (including yourself) lost their shit, but Mallard closes 200 odd schools the left and the unions are…Oddly quiet.
Mallard closed down.schools that needed to be closed, Parata didn’t, that’s the difference. Plus Parata allowed.ACTs charter schools which were private schools funded by tax payers money.
Darien Fenton is correct. BG your anti anything left posts are noted.
Bert Do you properly question Left decisions? Why did these schools get closed down? Efficiency? Sometimes schools are a central point in a community that is cohesive, rather than the pub which leads the other way quite often. Rural people are valuable with different skills to citites, and if farm workers are wanted, there should be facilities for families to establish themselves and grow up in their own milieu.
Yes Greywarbler I do. I don’t agree with everything Labour does despite how others portray me but I also question bullshit that well known right wing tribalists post on here( Bob the perfect example). Yes, why did they get closed down?, very good question Greywarbler, a better question than a statement like BGs.
Of course BG they cannot be objective they are so indoctrinated.
I see Mallards new appointment as an insult to Ireland.
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.
Then why do we read almost daily that no one in the health sector is happy with Minister Little?
You don’t, you make stories up, pathetic.
To sum it up Trevor Mallard is a nasty bully boy.
To sum it up Dumb Bob and his posts are pathetic, nasty, right wing trolling.
Why this shit for Trevor? Neoliberal is the sentence.
I can’t regard anyone as right unless they were for the people first.
Did you establish his ‘radical legacy’? Much laughter. Just a prick who went along and came along. Unlike us social democrats. Who are right.
Trevor Mallard introduced Living Wage for Parliiaments Cleaners and Catering Workers ; all employed by contractors. He gave a stuff ; many others didnt as they lined up in Copperfields or Bellamys, or expected their offices to be cleaned to perfection. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/346465/parliament-s-cleaners-to-get-living-wage?fbclid=IwAR0eqVAhtYLJCRP6NHdIdRcYJz6oUsjqySlFExeKB6SLaeQwix-IcYkEJOs
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