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Island Life: The resignation of Captain Worth

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  • Sonic,

    Mr Farrar is now running US political tests, odd you'd think he would be crowing about this triumph for John Key's decisive leadership.

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 102 posts Report Reply

  • Rich of Observationz,

    For balance, can I make innuendo about the degrading and perverted acts the male members of the Auckland Junta must have had to perform to get into their lucrative and powerful positions?

    Satirically, of course..

    Back in Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 5550 posts Report Reply

  • simon g,

    So has anybody covered the real story here? No?

    Stephen Franks is getting closer.

    Just a couple more scandals to go. Or only one, if Melissa Lee works a miracle on Saturday week.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 1333 posts Report Reply

  • Rich of Observationz,

    F..k! I thought we'd driven him off in Wellington Central with silver crosses, garlic and attack advertising.

    Guess we should've buried him under the Basin Reserve with a steak through his heart...

    Back in Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 5550 posts Report Reply

  • Russell Brown,

    with a steak through his heart...

    Ah. Hence the garlic.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report Reply

  • David Slack,

    with a steak through his heart...
    Ah. Hence the garlic.

    I think that's how Garth's finally going to go.

    Devonport • Since Nov 2006 • 599 posts Report Reply

  • Sam F,

    Fast food is not junk. It contains legitimate, nutritious ingredients, is prepared in generally spotlessly hygienic surroundings and provides a convenient, tasty and filling meal without the need to prepare it or clean up after.

    Fast food - be it fish and chips, hamburgers, fried chicken, pizza or pies, all of which I am fond of - or any one of the other multitudinous offerings to be found in today's food halls - is a modern-day blessing for which society has cause to be grateful.

    A highpoint of splendid delusion.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 1611 posts Report Reply

  • LegBreak,

    Guess we should've buried him under the Basin Reserve with a steak through his heart...

    OI!!!

    Leave the Basin alone.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 1162 posts Report Reply

  • Rich of Observationz,

    Leave the Basin alone.

    It's like a crossroads, only more so.

    But maybe Kelburn Viaduct or somewhere.

    Back in Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 5550 posts Report Reply

  • Sofie Bribiesca,

    Goff is trying to table the complaint against Worth, challenged by Key. Junior whip wants to check back first as he objected to tabling it. Goff is waiting.

    here and there. • Since Nov 2007 • 6796 posts Report Reply

  • Just thinking,

    When Maurice Williamson is the safe hands who picked up the dropped ball and Franks starts to look 'better' than Lee or Worth you have depth issues on your bench.

    Putaringamotu • Since Apr 2009 • 1158 posts Report Reply

  • Sofie Bribiesca,

    Goff got the complainant's statement tabled. Now one must get organised for the Virtual Identity. Bye :)

    here and there. • Since Nov 2007 • 6796 posts Report Reply

  • Bevan Shortridge,

    Russell wrote:

    Someone campaigning for John Boscawen is driving around our residential neighbourhood with a very loud loudspeaker telling everyone how "strong" and "effective" he'd be as the member for Mt Albert.

    I remember Richard Worth did that along Broadway in Newmarket one weekend back when he had Epsom. At least it wasn't a residential area. He singled people out on the footpath (by loudspeaker).

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 122 posts Report Reply

  • Claret,

    Thought on balance that John Key was doing well, despite all the back and forward opinions. BUT...just heard him on National Radio's Checkpoint and it seems that the congratulations he has been receiving has gone to his head. He ended up sounding like a belligerent idiot as he demanded that the texts, from the initial Goff allegation, are made public by the complainant, rather than agreeing to a private meeting. Thus the victim is revictimised. Does anyone wonder why women don't race to the police station even when there is unequivocal evidence of rape?

    Wellington • Since May 2009 • 4 posts Report Reply

  • 3410,

    So, the scandal is now about "what the Labour leader knew and when he knew it" or... whether Goff said he had evidence when it was not actually in his posession , or... something.

    Really, watching The News these days is like living in a Lewis Carrol story.

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report Reply

  • Paul Litterick,

    So, let me get this right. Yesterday morning, John Key's office and Richard Worth both said Worth was going for "personal reasons." Later that same day, John Key said he had sacked Worth because of criminal matters. Later still, he let slip that the matters were to do with "harassment" of a woman, although he told Parliament that he was not at liberty to say what the case was about. Now he is demanding that the victim of the complaint which Goff brought to his attention but which he dismissed for lack of evidence (who may not be the same woman as the complainant in the criminal case) make public the texts to prove her case.

    Does this mean that yesterday Worth was a crim, but today he is a victim? Or is a crim when Key says so, but not when Goff does?

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 1000 posts Report Reply

  • Ian Dalziel,

    Earth to Paul Henry...

    (to Guyon Espiner) ...This is why people like us live isn't it? For stories like this - I mean this is the sort of thing that makes politics very, very interesting, sadly there are human beings involved.

    Damn those meddling mammal bipeds!

    But at least we now have confirmed that Paul Henry is an alien political scandal vampire and has no place on our screens, the sooner he is cut loose to quaff freely at the tumescent vein of Faux News the better...

    We must all monitor our PH levels carefully...

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    Yes, especially as a person grows older! Although it may generally go unnoticed and undetected for years, an imbalanced pH (either consistently too acid or alkaline) leads to the progression of most, if not all, degenerative diseases

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    Jonathan Harker

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report Reply

  • Mark Harris,

    **Go ask Alice**

    I think she'll know

    Waikanae • Since Jul 2008 • 1343 posts Report Reply

  • ScottY,

    I heard the Key interview on Checkpoint. This man is frankly an embarrasment as PM. He kept calling referring to "Texas", and it took me a while to realise he was talking abut the "texts".

    Please, someone get the man elocution lessons.

    As for the substance of what he said, he was all over the place. So much for decisive leadership. Key's going to come out of this looking poorly. So much for Holmes' 10/10.

    Oh, but wait. it's all Goff's fault. Silly me.

    West • Since Feb 2009 • 794 posts Report Reply

  • David Slack,

    The pronunciation sounded to me like "Textors". A Freudian slip, as we all know, is when you say one thing and you mean your mother.

    I also wonder if I've heard any other leader of their country, save for Dubya, get so tangled up in their vocabulary. He had lost confidence in Worth last Tuesday, he said. Then, when pressed by Mary Wilson, he tried to find the words to declare that he had in fact begun to lose confidence at that point. From Tuesday onwards, he finally declared to her, after two or three failed attempts to clear the bar, "my confidence in him was rescinding".

    Devonport • Since Nov 2006 • 599 posts Report Reply

  • Matthew Littlewood,

    Even putting aside all the other stuff, Slater’s not really made for TV, is he?

    Just summoned the ungodly urge inside me to watch the clip online. And you're absolutely right. What's really striking about Slater is that for a supposed "activist" or "expert commentator" with his "finger on the pulse", he clearly knows nothing about the actual political process, beyond the vaguest framework.

    I mean, if you were actually able to unpack his sentences he pretty much admitted he had no inside knowledge of what was going on at all. Which begs the question- if they really wanted a "right-wing" blogger, why didn't they just go for Farrar?

    And I loved Colin Espiner’s comment on the question of whether Worth would leave parliament gracefully: “Well, he does have a high sense of self-entitlement”.

    So did I, but more than that, the difference in ability, intelligence, likeability and general nous between Slater and Espiner was so obvious as to suggest the pair genuinely live on different planets. Which I suppose they do in a sense- Espiner, for one, actually seems to understand how the game works. More to the point, the bugger can write.

    I guess the difference was most obvious in how they presented themselves- Espiner was funny, relaxed and concise, Slater was monosyllabic, rambling and oddly uncomfortable, even when Sainsbury was flattering him.

    Today, Tomorrow, Timaru • Since Jan 2007 • 449 posts Report Reply

  • Matthew Littlewood,

    <quote>
    So much for Holmes' 10/10.
    <quote>

    Yeah, but he gives Paula Bennet 8/10, so I guess it's all relative, really.

    Today, Tomorrow, Timaru • Since Jan 2007 • 449 posts Report Reply

  • Paul Litterick,

    Breaking news: Worth speaks out and the gory details come out.

    He offered her a job as an ethics advisor.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 1000 posts Report Reply

  • Matthew Littlewood,

    Breaking news: Worth speaks out and the gory details come out.

    He offered her a job as an ethics advisor.

    You couldn't script it better, could you?

    Today, Tomorrow, Timaru • Since Jan 2007 • 449 posts Report Reply

  • ChrisW,

    Breaking news: Worth speaks out and the gory details come out.

    He offered her a job as an ethics advisor.

    You couldn't script it better, could you?

    No, this is just journalists having the same trouble with their script as the politicians with their diction - ethnic affairs has only passing relation to ethics, or is it versa vice?

    Gisborne • Since Apr 2009 • 851 posts Report Reply

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