Police Minister Stuart Nash resigns after he criticised judge’s decision
Stuart Nash has resigned as Police Minister following “unwise” actions in criticising a judge’s sentencing and calling his Police Commissioner ‘mate’ to ask ‘surely you are going to appeal?’, Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has announced.
Nash, speaking to Newstalk ZB this morning, referenced the conversation with Coster while talking about the need for appropriate punishments for offenders.
He was not Police Minister at the time of the conversation.
How fucking dumb is Stuart Nash?
He’s a Cabinet minister and Senior Politician.
Why the Christ did he think telling ZB that he called up his ‘mate’ the Police Commissioner and told him to intervene in a Judicial ruling???
What the fuck Stuart!
The clear corruption of influence ringing up the Police Commissioner and demanding they challenge a case is so spectacularly dumb, it could only be the Nashy.
I love how he was surprised this was all a problem.
Personally Stuart’s role in being the mouthpiece for the Forestry Industry in the wake of the slash catastrophe demands more attention for dumb stuff too.
This was such an unnecessary fumble, but that’s why they call him the Nashy.
So dumb. So unbelievably dumb.
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Hold the phone!
Why is it the feral twerker can abuse the government for being soft on crime and then attack Nashy for having freedom of speech to harden up on crime?
That’s why Seymour Butts can never ever be taken seriously.
Like Winston and co he’s probably been tainted exposure by the fishing industry. It’s was just impossible to put cameras on boats.
Yep dug himself a hole and shot himself in it. F$&ing idiot.
Speaking of shooting, under police minister Nash there was major blurring of government/police roles after Chch, such that police (especially Coster I understand, before he was made commissioner) wrote the new gun laws they were then to enforce.
Accepting little to no input from the public.
So it seems to me to be just further evidence of corrupt government process which Nash is so used to, he’s surprised to find out there is meant to be a separation of law making and police implementation, or separation of government and judiciary or individual prosecution.
How incredibly dumb and as arrogant, and just how are those rushed completely wrongly targeted new laws going in lowering gun crime?
Armed offenders call outs up 100% in the cities.
Keepcalmcarryon There is already the precedent of Mallard calling the police to the Parliamentary Lawn protest, then over-ruling the appalled police when they requested that the sprinklers turned on men, women and children, throughout the already-raining night be turned off. That was direct interference in a police operational matter, but Mallard was actually made a diplomat in its wake.
Don’t forget Mahuta anti democratically trying to embed elements of 3 waters, there are all sorts of other examples of 3rd term disease in this government, Nash just started in the first term.
The biggest irony here for Nash is he is the actual dickhead responsible for passing the gun laws which only targeted the law abiding , so in the case which this is about, the unlicensed guy got to sleep with an AR15 under the mattress and when caught only got home detention. If he’d been licensed he would have handed it in it or had his door kicked in and house raided and jail time (5 years?).
Did it make Nash look bad that already his laws looked ridiculous? Bad enough to pick up the phone to the police commissioner and eventually lose his portfolio (again)
Keepcalmcarryon. I know nothing about guns. Since stealing a water pistol when I was about 9 caused me so much trouble I’ve avoided guns and crime ever since. Nash did do this before he was Minister of Police. The court sentence looks light, but I also agree with policy to avoid criminals being incarcerated. They come out worse, it costs the tax payers heaps, and only private prison operators do well out of it.
*Nash has been minister of police twice in this government
Keep knocking those poppy heads off Chippy! They just grow too big for the garden beds at times, rooting around underground.
Maaaaaate! They’re all bloody Brahmin Left or Merchant Right – along with the senior and muddle management ranks in the public service – Central, Local and Quango.
They lost any concept of public SERVICE long ago.
gNashies, Fa A-aa-Fois, Winders, Hutt City administrators, Panelistas, political party politicians equipped with their social media apparatus, and an entire enterage of bullshit artists of spin meisters and spin mistresses, and contrarians alike.
Let’s have a conversation – or NOT. Time will see most of them disappear up their own arses – much like unregulated capitalism
Have to appoint a new minister of Police from the Green Party. As No other candidates left in Labour party.
Plenty left, remember it is National who have fuck all because they lost the last election by a large margin.
ACT have gone woke on freedom of speech.
“How fucking dumb is Stuart Nash?”
About average for this government
In our system, Ministers don’t tell the Police what to do, the Police tell the Ministers what to do.
What else has Stuart Nash messed with?
Stuart,has always been about ego. Move across the benches, that ex officer,claiming, look Ministers should not talk to our Police officers about their control, yarpy square heid, Muldoon, the not only political scars we carry,but also the phyisical,what egit,would believe a arguement in the house ,as their party claiming fair ground, how fucking square heid.
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Definitely a dumb move from Nash but does refute the Oppositions narrative that the Govt is “soft on Crime”, clearly the Govt and Minisiters have no say on charges and sentences for offenders, National and Act are aware of this but continue to dupe their supporters with the narrative.
Nash is trying to give the Treasury benches National and Act. He knows that the housing crisis, (which started in October 2017), poverty, and crime will all be sorted out expeditiously and thoroughly.
Not just that, health resourcing will not be a problem, numbers lining up to be teachers and nurses will go through the roof and roads, don’t talk to me about how many, how big, and how flash they’ll be!
Any downside? Just for the thousands of backroom people in Ministries like Education who will lose their jobs and all consultants the Government has used who will never be used again.
What portfolios for Michael Woodhouse? Minister of Tourism given his demonstrated creative expertise with getting people into Auckland Hotels and those travelling the North Island?
Peter. Be great if all those kiddie gender ID obsessives in the Educ Dept get the boot, and some experienced educators are brought in and school children learn time-honoured basics once again. Woodhouse? Isn’t he the one who produces sexist lavatory seats for raffles ? Make him Minister of Bingo or Lotto, or he could teach artistic finger painting to kindergarten kiddies, and how to see invisible people to budding spies and myopic bus drivers. Design SIS brochures.
Stupid is, as stupid does.
No Comment is stupid.
Minister of slash nash talked trash and crashed. He could have at least gone done fighting against some of the more dangerous decisions of the judiciary such as calling out the parole board for releasing people who go on to murder again. If anyone else caused manslaughter for negligence they would go to jail. And we still have to see if anyone is liable for the flood damage.
He should’ve given everyone the Uffindell smash bash Ethan Ash.
Nash should be fired for not acting on the slash problem years ago but on the face of it it seems he was right to question whether the judge applied the law as it was intended, his mistake was to say it out loud as private citizens are permitted to do (for now).
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