Of course, if you suddenly find you're liable for the lifetime costs of an employee who gets shot in your carpark...

Then your legal and risk analysis teams need firing. Besides, while 'crippled for life by a bullet' is a pretty unlikely event, I can't imagine there are any shortage…

Does McGillicuddy Serious still exist?

They wound up after the 1996 election. Some friends who were candidates said that it was just getting too hard to be silly enough any more – mainstreams parties such as NZ First and ACT had 'stolen their centre' so to speak.

I also wonder…

Or did I miss a link to it somewhere?

OOOOOO!!!! In firefox 3.0 beta2 you can drag text in a textarea, and it pulls a transparent preview of the selected text with it. It's purrdy!

I guess it all comes down to the "borders" of where ACC's coverage and AFFCO's alternative deal meet (or dont?).

It just seems illogical and unfair, intuitively, that my employer might be responsible for…

My main point is, surely, being shot isnt actually an accident.... it was done on purpose.... and initial responsibility of costs should fall on the shooter....

Presumably, said gang member doesnt actually have the funds available.... but when the person responsible cant pay, thats when "the state" intervenes....

This isn't…

Its an interesting point that while I've heard of this case off-and-on over the last year or two, the 'minor detail' that AFFCO had opted out of the normal ACC plan and had insurance with another provider had entirely escaped me... I guess thier expensive PR was…

The sad, ironic note of conclusion is that Joel Storey now does wear a gang colour — the red of the Mongrel…

Wishart and his tawdry rage

Whoops... for once an accurate typo, because I find it hard to believe Investigate is produced or read by people who are exactly overflowing with joie de vive. :)

Craig, the last time NP supporters started wittering on about scandals about to be brought up by Labour it was as cover for their own muck racking, conveniently passed through the likes of Wishart and friends.

Graeme: Apologise for the misreading.

Don: Care to put up or shut up -…

He seems willing to risk the damage the ancient scandal might cause rather than the fuss a summary caucus execution might cause.

Or has calculated that whatever it is is more likely to backfire on Labour, especially if it's historical. They've managed to shoot themselves in the foot fairly reliably…

Does McGillicuddy Serious still exist?

MMP kind of killed it (if your vote counts, there's not much point using it on the joke party), but there is a current MP who was a McGillicuddy candidate in 1993.

I cannot speak for Graeme but I suspect when he says "back on point" he is talking about ACC and Affco...

Precisely.

Does McGillicuddy Serious still exist?

Perhaps Bill could have taken the moral high ground – or his editor exercised some real live editorial judgment – and declined to set the stage for another round of shit-flinging.

Pardon me but aren't we all just SICK TO DEATH of the predictably boring shite-flinging that our national politics…

I cannot speak for Graeme but I suspect when he says "back on point"…

But on point – I tried a few comments like this on DPF, but it's about time these inconvenient facts got a little more airplay.

Hum... We might not be talking about the same thing but if Labour wants to reduce the campaign to a Ratshit Galucoma gossip column, go…

if its the 'neutron bomb' I've heard of, I suspect its just going to blow up in the face of the person who throws it

I think you might be confusing nuclear weaponry with molotov cocktails :-)

But on point – I tried a few comments like this on DPF,…

Here's Ralston, not letting the facts get in the way of a good rant,

I don't bother reading (as opposed to skimming) Ralston's columns at the best of times, but caught this rather icky column over the last bagel brunch of '07:

There is, apparently, one niggle for the party leader.…