Prime Minister Chris Hipkins announces review into Stuart Nash’s communications with donors
Former Cabinet minister Stuart Nash’s communications with donors will be reviewed to see if there have been any more breaches of the rules.
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins says his office was aware of an email the now-sacked minister sent, which breached Cabinet confidentiality.
But National Party leader Christopher Luxon says it is a cover-up.
Napier MP Nash was stripped of all his ministerial portfolios on Tuesday after it emerged he sent an email to senior business figures in 2020 which contained Cabinet discussions related to a commercial relief package being negotiated. Nash was small business minister at the time.
Speaking to media on Wednesday afternoon, Hipkins revealed the Prime Minister’s Office was made aware of the email in 2021, when it was included “in consultation around an Official Information Act request”.
“It was deemed to be outside the scope of the Official Information Act request in question,” so was not made public, Hipkins said.
He said neither then-Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, nor her chief of staff, were alerted to the email’s existence.
“I have made it very clear to my office that I expect to be alerted about any such matters should they arise, and should my office become aware of them.”
He said he did not believe it was deliberately covered up.
Well, well, well.
The TDB ‘I told you so Express’ is on time again!
We warned you that The Nashy (Suns out – Guns out) was as thick as 2 planks and the crazy shit he would have told his donor mates to big note would cause enormous political damage.
And it has come to pass.
Look, the fury by everyone at what The Nashy (Suns out – Guns out) is legitimate, but the reason I refer to Stuart Nash as The Nashy (Suns out – Guns out), is because he’s a fucking moron.
He isn’t some strategic genius Chess master making decisions for the art of dark grift, he’s a dickhead who would big note anything without the brains to appreciate what he was doing.
The political problem is he’s effectively shat on Cabinet and can’t stay, problem is he’s the only bloke Labour has (other than Willie Jackson and Kieran McAnulty) who is working class enough to win over Provincial vote.
The other political problem for Labour is that if they chase The Nashy (Suns out – Guns out) into the arms of NZ First, he will jump ship to Winston and will likely win his seat for them instead.
Labour need to keep The Nashy (Suns out – Guns out) on life support until he decides to step down or keep him on for execution once the Slash inquiry comes out because let’s be honest, if The Nashy (Suns out – Guns out) is this fucking thick, imagine the crazy shit he’s told his Forestry mates regarding slash.
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Nash seems to have lots of sympathy from opposition parties. Makes you wonder if the connection between donor and parliament makes some nervous. Sure Luxon is gunning for him, but Winnie and Seymour seem almost apologetic. It spoke volumes this morning when Simon Bridges said his biggest mistake was putting it in writing!
Nash seems to have lots of sympathy from opposition parties. Makes you wonder if the connection between donor and parliament makes some nervous. Sure Luxon is gunning for him, but Winnie and Seymour seem almost apologetic. It spoke volumes this morning when Simon Bridges said his biggest mistake was putting it in writing!
Keep him on until the slash enquiry then crucify him. Party funding is an extreme issue. All parties should have a fixed budget and equal air time in election run ups. Anything else is corrupt as and undemocratic imo.
There isn’t anybody in Parliament which isn’t beholden to corporate political donors.
Another reason why a new party, to challenge the traitorous Blairites in the Labour Party, will eventually emerge.
“……he’s a dickhead who would big note anything without the brains to appreciate what he was doing.”
Unfortunately, there’s a lot of it about. Ticking boxes, marketing the message and spinning is all that matters
And so it was with Cam Wallace, Marama, the Labour Party’s fish and chip group, and several chief gee bung wonders of government agencies and corporations.
I’m devastated (NOT)
Aloha Luxon who can’t see the wood for the trees, wants Nash to resign, to force a by-election. A waste of money from the person who purports to know about money, in an electorate with more important issues, such as trying to recover from cyclone devastation. Why have a by-election so close to the general election, when voters in the general election can make up their minds about Nash then. Luxon is putting political muckraking above being sensible. And if he wanted to be sensible, then can he explain why Barbara Kuriger is still in parliament, after her severe conflict of interest with MPI over ill treatment of livestock on her family farm? At least Nash had his heart in the right place, trying to do the right thing, but doing it the wrong way, while Kuriger was just nepotism, yet no talk from Aloha about a by-election for Kuriger.
And pray tell, does Aloha have any opinion on the dirty politics revelations from the book of the same name, well of course he would, and he would be hell bent on telling everyone, and calling for an independent inquiry, if the dirty politics revelations came from Labour, but since it was National…meh.
I see Chipkins said that reviewing all past cabinet communications for malfeasance would be too big a task. I disagree. Hire a team of consultants to do it if you have to Chippy! There is something fishy going on here, if the PMs office can assess that the Nash information trading was out of scope then they must have seen it to make this assessment. What other malfeasance lies within at the Beehive?
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