Time to Pay
It’s time to pay - in more ways than one. The Herald reports that Labour MPs will be forced to stump up for the pledge card and the rest of their outrageous thievery.
Labour’s 50 MPs will be asked for next week for $435,000 to pay for illegal election spending, which many blame on top Prime Ministerial adviser Heather Simpson.
The party reckons the whip-round will bring in the rest. A common theme of directing the blame at Heather Simpson seems to be emerging, although…
No MP who wants a future in the party would dare to publicly criticise Heather Simpson. She is “untouchable”, as one MP put it yesterday, because of the complete confidence Helen Clark has in her.
But if confidence in both Clark AND Simpson were to slip…
The knife is really put in by Fran O’Sullivan, also in the Herald, in her column Clark Damaged Goods After Battle of Helengrad. I won’t quotes bits of it - you have to go and read the whole thing. Go. Read it and enjoy.
And then bring on the firing squad.
October 14th, 2006 at 11:43 am
O’Sullivan seems to think that Cullen, Hodgson, Mahery and Goff
are somehow not corrupt.
NOPE.
NOT GOOD ENOUGH.
They are all implicated: they must all be jailed - and barred from holding public office for ever.
and that’s just for starters.
October 15th, 2006 at 8:05 pm
If labour want/need time to pay fine - IRD terms apply inclusive of penalties and money use interest, after all it was taxpayers money.
October 16th, 2006 at 6:10 am
Rumpole - like I said
they must all be jailed, and any member of a labour party barred from holding public office or a civil service job in perputity.
And YES - try not paying the IRD - you will find yourself with a huge fine; you will find yourself in jail; and judged not a fit person to run a company or barred from being a lawyer or a doctor or a teacher or whatever.
The same penalties should be applied - even though the offense is far, far worse.