Arise Sir Trevor: Former Speaker is now Wellington’s newest knight
When Sir Trevor Mallard next wanders into the Wainuiomata Rugby Football Club it is a pretty good bet that no-one will call him Sir Trevor.
The 69-year-old received a knighthood in the New Year honours list, for services as an MP as as Speaker of the House. He was one of five New Zealanders made a Knight or Dame Companion of The New Zealand Order of Merit.
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 respected 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 his 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 than the dynamics of micro aggression trigger free space dogma during the hashtag MeToo feeding frenzy.
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 the first 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 Maoists screamed for the Police to bash the smelly lumpenproletariat Nazis because they had their work from home privilege threatened by angry scary smelly 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 has 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.
Mallard getting a knighthood is everything shameful in NZ politics.
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Well done Martyn, a balanced appraisal of the duck.
‘Fraid you called it wrong on the clownvoy – the ‘protestors’ had threatened violence and thereby given up their right to assemble on the Parliamentry lawn. But police numbers were inadequate (they had neither rostered on extra staff nor conducted the kind of interdiction UK police use to prevent football thugs from assembling in insuperable numbers. Moreover the armed forces were heavily engaged with Covid measures.
Try protesting on that lawn now (Brownlee in charge) – you’ll get batoned or pepper sprayed – even if you’re peaceful.
The protesters were more likely to use the violence on each other till Mallard united them against the government. Threats are empty most of the time & it was only Mallard’s ego trip that caused the problems.
Rubbish.
They were an admittedly fanciful but nevertheless formal offering of violence. They should have been read the riot act and moved on immediately. The police were not up to the job, and Mallard should have used the master at arms to have them removed without delay.
Their offer of violence (they promised to arrest and try the PM by kangaroo court) jeopardized their right to protest or be present on the grounds at all. Their legal standing was no different than the Trump insurrectionists that inspired them.
Ok so this looks even worse as Mallard is an absolute idiot (well before the parliamentary protests) Anyone who gets physical in Parliament should just bugger off. That being said why are any of these politicians knighted or honoured? They are being paid to do this. In fact I don’t really see why professional sports people are knighted either. Ok so R J Hadlee basically was the bowling unit so maybe an exception!
Unbelievable. Seriously, he should not be knighted! It only illustrates how obsolete that whole system is when someone like him is to be called Sir.
The system is broken when someone like Key can be knighted. You can molest a girl and be knighted for it ffs!
Helen Clark stopped them, John Key resurrected them. He now has one as does his side kick Bill English and only now is it that you are complaining, it is a right wing privilege and adulation thing Jonzie. Don’t blame Mallard he never asked for it!
That’s right NaSC, blame Key. He had to have one so brought them back and guess why Luxy is in Parliament??? It isn’t for our benefit, and we won’t get knighthoods for suffering in silence through his mis-begotten regime.
The moment Key got his knighthood their value plummeted. I feel sorry for genuinely deserving recipients.
Winnie will somehow end up with one too eventually. For Services to Winnie.
Nice to see you missed out Sir Michael Cullen, deputy PM when Clark done away with them, but opened up his arms gleefully when they were reintroduced….forgot about that Squeaky/Bert, best to ignore eh?
Nice to see you mentioned nothing on Key your godfather I’m hard right/ Bob/I’m white
You write @ MB
“Mallard getting a knighthood is everything shameful in NZ politics.”
I’d write
“Mallard getting a knighthood is everything I’d expect of NZ politics.” Until very, very, very recently AO/NZ’s economy was born of family farmers farming food then exporting that food to bring home the bacon. Pun intended.
Now, we have cowsploitation factories and we have multi-billionaires, multi-millionaires and four foreign owned fascist banks exploiting us all and out of that excrement rises a knighthood for useless fucking mallard. Wow. So, so, so surprised.
Says more about you Martyn. Trev was the best Minister of Education ever according to Helen Kelly. He implemented standards for cleaners, unlike others. He made parliament family friendly. And he played Barry Manilow to the cookers at Parliament. I thought that was cool. I don’t care you didn’t like him. You don’t like most people who disagree with you. Happy New Year.
Nice Darien.
Simplistic and narrow Darien. People with your attitude have guided unionism into backwaters made stagnant, and then holed it so it is like an upside-down iceberg. Each
informed union member would have been a fervent supporter, but the top-down patrony from union leaders and organisers limited their agency and commitment.
“People with your attitude”. You mean like organising Talley’s workers and standing with them on the picket line when they were locked out? You mean like being sued personally by the same company? You mean like organising Care and Support Workers and Cleaners and Hospitality workers and first unionising SkyCity? I can only surmise from your comment that you disapprove of unions or you know stuff all about them.
Not too sure about the best MinofEd title. He didnt do much to roll back the Tomorrow’s Schools reforms., and effectively created a two-tier schooling system by allowing richer schools to offer Camridge and IB exams instead of NCEA.
Just saying what Helen Kelly told me. I think he was progressive for the time, given what had come before.
LOL, given that ‘what had come before’ didnt really want the government in the business of running schools, then that’s a pretty low bar.
As Tertiary Education Minister.
https://teu.ac.nz/news/helen-kelly/
The Prime Minister Helen Clark had to intervene to end the closure of schools and loss of state owned land that was rising much faster in value than any debt cost pa.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/clark-against-school-closures-process/VRDMDQKXZ3MIATMNIQLL2QKCSI/
Nope. He was a terrible, obstructive Min of Ed and refused to budge when teachers wanted better pay and conditions in 2002. Plus everything else. It is now a very low bar to obtaining a knighthood, if it matters any more at all.
I agree with you Darien.I met him, had breakfast with him and regard him as a good Kiwi bloke, not a blustery bullshit artist like some commentators who need bullshit spouts to survive.
REALLY
He was someone who gave 30+ years of public service and that, regardless of what Party you are in, is remarkable.
Service really, this man has done less than many people who work in the public service (NOT PARLIAMENT) and who have worked there much longer than this shit! And he has sucked at the tit longer than most and then gets plum job in Ireland. No bloody politicians should ever become ambassadors.
Michal – Gave … years of public service?? I think he was paid and being an MP did no harm to his personal standing and shown on his CV. A ‘It’s a dirty job but someone’s got to do it’ sort of ironic explanation that a flexible chap supposed to be supporting the ordinary people might say.
I don’t think you are viewing NZ politicians in a bright enough light Martyn. I have been reading Oscar Wilde’s sly digs at the pretensions and delusory delights of his society. And I am looking now at The Importance of Being Earnest where Oscar introduced the idea of Bunbury. This was an imaginary person who was ailing and who could call away his creator when he needed a break from everyday life. I think that is the nature of the Beehive, a place for an alternative life while pretending to be a Member of Parliament.
If a man can curry enough favour and get elected, he then spends a considerable time away from his home area and on return people seek him out for help and he can administer some and promises for the rest, or suggest alternatives. And get his picture in the paper; (Nick Smith the Nelson MP has been seen regularly through the decades with his boyish smile). No-one of voting importance ascertains your true character and worth, and possibly no-one cares; if people are delusory and they are doing okay then they don’t want to rock the boat.
From the play:
Lady Bracknell – on the track of daughter Gwendolen: ‘Apprised, sir, of my daughter’s sudden flight by her trusty maid, whose confidence I purchased by means of a small coin, I followed her at once by a luggage train. Her unhappy father is, I am glad to say under the impression that she is attending a more than usually lengthy lecture by the University Extension Scheme on the Influence of a permanent income on Thought…’
I do wonder if this situation of a permanent income does not do away with thought, looking at the behaviour of the wealthy over the years and middle class in this country.
Political patronage is one of the reasons honours were first dispensed with, because automatic “sirs”–SirKey etc. are clearly ridiculous and insulting to the public.
Some of the more community focused people well deserve to recognised and that is the rub, how to recognise genuine people without legitimising the wankers, servants of capital and the British Monarchy.
I guess the current government is happy to have a low standard for a knighthood since they will all be wanting one. They probably inherited Trevor’s from the previous government and with only a limited time in power so far there is going to be a big mess to clean up when they end.
To me the most outrageous thing about the Parliament Covid protests were the price of the slide/playground ,,,, with the playground described as a slide with some logs scattered around. https://images.7news.com.au/publication/C-1108514/522bc102a211d2989710458fc2dad1e59e689c3d-16×9-x0y0w1280h720.jpg?imwidth=828&impolicy=sevennews_v2
The slide went $75,0000 over budget
The Architects/civil engineering fees were $70,000+ over budget
Slide design, manufacture & installation: $241,772
Civil works, including landscaping and safety surfacing: $170,912
Consultants fees, including both engineering and architectural: $159,470
Total: $572,154 …..
…. The slide construction/engineering boondoggle shocked me more than the riot ,,,, which was also engineered to a large degree….. with Trevor playing his incompetent part
How embarrassing this ugly drunk fool represented NZ in Ireland
To be fair, he won’t be alone.
Trevor Mallard is now Sir Trevor Mallard and they cannot take that away from him
They most certainly can take it away – think Sir Roger Casement, whose knighthood was canceled for treason during the First World War, and Sir Anthony Blunt, whose knighthood was withdrawn in 1979.
But Trevor, though nothing to write home about, is merely undeserving, not a traitor to the state. In this he is no different to the equally underserving Key & Carter, and the ridiculous Gerry Brownlee, whose disservice to the country will be memoralised in the same fashion after his risible term as speaker concludes.
He also threaten to shove a stubbie of Heineken up someone’s arse once. Oh how we laughed at the time.
Sir Trevor can take his place alongside,Sir Isaac Newton,Sir Earnest Rutherford,Sir Alexander Fleming and others of …worth. 😉
Did this guy give his life to public service or did he do it all to benefit himself? If it’s the latter he can shove his knighthood up his arse.
A really good electorate MP.
Trevor wasn’t speaker when I was an MP. Sir Lockwood Smith, Sir David Carter were. He was Minister of Labour and he demonstrated to me (a die hard unionist) that unions were in his blood – his family were involved in the 1951 strike, he was a member of various unions and learned to organise. He got things done. Parliament was the first in the State Sector organisation to become a Living Wage employer, under his Speakership. He could be fractious. I know he biffed Tau Henare. Ironically, Tau came from the union movement too, but he chose another side. I don’t agree with Knights and Dames, but that’s another discussion. I was pleased to see Ross Wilson and Ros Hini recognised for “services to trade unions” as part of their honours and there were many great community people given recognition as well.
Darien You are about the only one who makes sense in this discussion. Knighthoods, peerages etc are an absurd relic from the Brits and I was peed off to hear Jacinda, Cullen and Trev aso-called lefties accepting them.Awards yes but cringworthy accepting any gong from the longest living current parasite royale,Silly old Jugears Charlie, upholding the family values of HenryV111 ( to quote Christopher Hitchens) Admiration for Richie McCaw who said thanks but no thanks. Time we followed the Aussies and banned the stupid gongs.I’m sure Ron Brierly would agree.
Mallard may not have asked for it but he could, and should, have declined.
Martyn’s right. This baubles for boys nighthood highlights everything that is wrong with the honours system. I have been alive a long time and could count on one hand the number of recipients I have considered worthy.
So did Key, English and Carter deserve on in your eyes Brom or shod they also have declined it.
“Sir Lockwood Smith, Sir David Carter ” ( Sir David Carter, the most bias speaker in our political history)
A tradition that speakers get knighted…no different to Sir Trevor Mallard.
I used to work in his electorate and met him a few times – never took to him, but then I’m not very fond of politicians in general. But whatever you say about him – if you look at the comments on the MSN website about his knighthood, you can see healers rent-free in conservative minds.
Don’t understand the last half of your paragraph. ‘Healers’?
It’s worthwhile going back to Bowalley Rd for his latest posts. Like the old days.
Damn you auto correct – “he lives”. It would be nice to have an edit function. I’ve given up on Trotter. He accused me of being a Hamas support and implied I was anti-Semitic. We’ve had our differences in the past, but that was a bit much. I might go back if he apologises at the same length he slandered me, but I doubt he’d do that. He is far too full of his own opinions – like most of us I guess, but he has the platform.
Full support.
Ta … Appreciated.
Yep, Trotter has his head so far up Israel’s arse, he can taste the kosher meat.
He clearly has joined the ranks of those who think Palestinians are subhuman.
Not too sure his wife would dig the rules that she would have to abide by in Judaism tho.
Happy New Year @ Martyn Bradbury. x
I guess we are lucky in that Sirs and Dames get no financial rewards or say apart from the name. What is really corrupt is the House of Lords system in the UK where unelected “Lords” and “Ladies” can take a seat in the Upper House and have the ultimate say on legislation, or even brought back to play a pivotal role in government like David Cameron. For the record I found David Carter to be an arse ; Lockie Smith on the other hand quite human in his weird way out of the House. I am presuming former Speaker Margaret Wilson said no to a Damehood, though she got some NZ recognition at the time, when the Sirs and Dames stuff was on the back burner.
As everything is ephemeral and contextual, it would be best to give gongs for short peri0ds and then expire them. Knights and Dames would be applicable for only a year. By the end of the year we will be in a different situation and so those honours have become defunct along with the expectations and gratitude and the developments that the person started and which probably helped to become a yoke around our necks. It will truly be 5 minutes of fame, even if it once was 15. Time goes faster now. It will be more egalitarian, everyone will have a chance if they apply themselves.
On Knights and Dames and other “honours” . It’s worth checking out how ordinary folk like you and me can influence the Honours decisions. Below the high profile ones, there is a vast array of people from various backgrounds who have served our community in one way or another. The Honours Committee doesn’t sit around scrolling through or seeking worthy potential candidates ; they rely on nominations. It takes a little bit of effort to get a nomination in, along with a couple of letters in support and ensure it gets to the Honours Committee. I think it has been used effectively when two Pacific women in my union, Fili Fiu and Liz Lee-received their CSMs. What did they do? They scared the beejezus out of bosses, they rallied their communities, and they kept our union honest.
Very deserving and highly successful Fili Fiu and Liz Lee- were.
Darien you seem to believe all unionists are wonderful people and all employers are dreadful people.
I suggest there are good and bad in both camps.
For closing Grey Valley schools and decimating West Coast communities. A complete bastard.
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