TDB Summer Election Special: United Future – a revulsion of one and will MoU survive Ohariu?
I allowed Helen Kelly to die as a criminal, but my bow tie looks good
I think that it was despicable that Peter Dunne made Helen Kelly a criminal by denying her medicinal cannabis. That is a disgrace he should never be allowed to live down, alongside his vote to allow mass surveillance (after being a victim of it himself) and stopping the feeding the kids Bill.
This bow-tied arsehole is in desperate need of wiping.
His electorate has more civil servants than any other electorate, let’s hope they do the right thing by Helen Kelly and vote this miserable old goat out of Office. I want people in his electorate to walk around with signs reading ‘Remember Helen Kelly when you vote’. She deserved better than he gave her and he deserves the political consequences of such petty spite.
He could have been empathetic to Helen’s condition, and he wasn’t.
Screw him.
Luckily for Peter Dunne however, this is what passes for political journalism in NZ, a pathetic piece on how he ties his bow-ties.
I’m not joking, it really is about how he ties bow-ties.
Well done Fairfax, critical and insightful political commentary there. His bow-tie tying skills deserve a full page front cover in the Dominion Post.
The issue for Ohariu this election will test the parameters of the Memorandum of Understanding that the Greens and Labour signed in a hurry last year because the Green-Blue faction wanted to remain neutral at the 2017 election. Labour intend to push former Police cheerleader Greg O’Connor into the Ohariu electorate as their candidate.
Asking the Greens to stand their candidate aside and vote for a Labour candidate who is a former law and order hardarse like Greg O’Connor seems about as reasonable as appointing Cameron Slater to the Broadcasting Standards Association.
O’Connor has had a road to Damascus over cannabis legalisation and if that Greg O’Connor turns up for the election then Labour selecting his as a candidate could be inspired.
That hope rests on Labour being clever so fingers crossed.
+100…”I think that it was despicable that Peter Dunne made Helen Kelly a criminal by denying her medicinal cannabis.”
…not to mention his willful inflicting of pain on all the other living New Zealanders, including fragile elderly, who live with terrible unbearable pain
…and who by all accounts would benefit from medicinal cannabis, or at least the legalised option
( the only ones who oppose medicinal cannabis are a few ( authoritarian ‘bought’ ?)doctors and Peter Dunne who support BIG Pharma painkillers, of which there is an epidemic of addictions and deaths in the USA of these opiate prescribed painkillers )
https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/13/legalise-medical-cannabis-urgency
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/medicinal-cannabis-to-be-legalised-in-australia-from-november-20160901-gr6kb5.html
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/oct/30/medicinal-cannabis-crops-now-legal-in-australia
https://www.medicalcannabisclinic.com.au/
…I do so hope Peter Dunne gets his karma
> His electorate has more civil servants than any other electorate
You said that last election Martyn, and the one before. It sounds compelling, but it didn’t result in a change of elected candidate.
Beware the average angry animal who voted Drumpf, or rather the left commentators that failed to detect the seismic shift. It was the Bernie message that inspired voters, play the issue not the man.
So the issue for those publiic servants are perhaps ministerial bullying, ninth floor arrogance, OIA smoke & mirrors, idealogical policy on the hoof, ignoring carefully considered & well written reports to ministers, big fees to consultants doing the same work, and the perennial cut backs in staff or allocated hours for projects.