No Right Turn wrote this wee blog, the words may be few but
the impact is absolutely devastating from a democratic perspective.
“Something I missed: back in December, John Key appointed
former Wellington city councillor Chris Parkin to the Tourism Board. Parkin
is an ACT hack, but had been
in the hotel industry, so he could be considered qualified, except for this:
he's a big donor to the National Party. In 2011,
he gave them $55,000 (the Herald
can't count, and only
reported $53,000); in 2012,
he gave them another $16,850. 2013 returns aren't out yet, but they may make
interesting reading too. While Parkin might be qualified, giving a government
job to someone who has given your party over $70,000 looks unseemly at best -
and outright corrupt at worst.
Do you remember a
National Party MP named Nancy Wong?
She was sacked because she had used government funding to push her husbands
business interests while on an official visit to China. Well it just happens that Judith [Crusher] Collins a want-to-be
National Party leader, friend and user of Cameron
Slater’s ‘Whale-Oil’ blog site is also married to a business guy with a
Chinese connections and Judith just like Nancy went off to China as a guest of
the Chinese communist dictator and just happened to visit her husbands business
and gave a glowing report on the product he pushes. Her trip was funded by the
NZ Government led by, wait for it, Anti-communist freedom fighter John Key. ‘No right turn’ looked
at this bit of skullduggery and here is what he wrote:
Back
in 2008 when he was running for Prime Minister, John Key promised us "a
higher standard of government". When tested, that promise has been shown
to be hot air - and Judith Collins' conflict of interest over endorsing
her husband's company (which is also a major donor to the National Party)
is no exception. As predicted, he's refusing
to turn over the "advice" from the Cabinet Office saying that its all
OK - which means that we cannot
see if that advice stacks up, or even if its real. And then there's this
bit:
"We
have a set of rules which are always just a guideline anyway."
"Just a guideline": this is how Key treats our constitution (and the Cabinet Manual is part of our constitution, setting out the processes and norms of Cabinet governance). "A higher standard of government… I think not.
Posted
by Idiot/Savant at 3/07/2014 12:57:00 PM.
Cabinet rules clearly state:
That when accepting an invitation, a minister should inform
the organisation that it may not use any photos taken of the minister at the
event in a way that could be perceived as an endorsement by the minister."
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| Mark Hotchin. |
Now ‘Orvadia's’ founder and chairman is Deyi Shi. He has played golf with Prime Minister John Key
and goes by his English name, of Stone.
He owns Auckland's most expensive house, the
former Mark Hotchin [of Hanover
finance fame and a con man of the highest order] mansion on Paritai Dr.
But Oravida's links with
National go further. In 2011, it donated
$56,000 towards the party's election war chest. Ms Collins says she did
not know anything about that… Yeah Right.
So should we believe anything the PM or Judith Collins says
about their dealings with a business named Oravida? The answer is no: One
because one of its board members is the husband of Judith Collins and secondly
because its owner is a golfing mate of one of the biggest financial rip-off
artists still free in NZ. Oh a bit player by world standards but well up there
in the Mark Hotchin range here in good old Hobbit land. And thirdly because
they’ve gifted the National Party with tens of thousands of dollars, and they
didn’t do that just because they were feeling kindly…they wanted something in
return and they got it…and you and I are paying for it, after all Key has never
spent his own money, he only spends others hard earned cash…after all that’s
how you become rich.
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