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  1. Should read insult. Sorry struggling with new keyboard and computer I bought as part of Andrew Littles brilliant N.Z.Health settlement package.

  2. 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.

  3. Of course he’ll get a knighthood, if the most bias in our political history David Carter could get one, anyone can.

    1. Remind us who reinstated these things and why did Labour not get rid of them we aren’t mother England.

  4. 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.

  5. I see that Trevor Mallard has been trampled on by the left and the right alike but this hasn’t been altogether unwarranted

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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!

    1. 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.

  9. 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

  10. 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?

    1. @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.