"Hearing that Anne Tolley pleaded for the Diplomatic Protection Squad (DPS) to intervene in the Invercargill creative writing exercise is almost impossible to believe."
That is unbelievable!
Mallard goes on to describe the uses to which John Key puts the Diplomatic Protection Squad:
"I want to make it clear I’m not criticising them.
It is just the vast numbers that the PM uses. Taking four to Hawaii. Having five escourting him around parliament. Using them as a battering ram around airports. And as personal servants holding his towel in the gym."
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trevor mallard is about as believable as chicken little...he spouts whatever he likes without any basis in reality.
Maybe all the protection squad is to keep Trevor away, we all know he likes the 'biff'
Trevor Mallard and Anne Tolley have a lot in common then Paddy!
Perhaps it's (believability) a pre-requisite for becoming Minister of Education.I remember Merv Wellington and who could ever forget Lockwood Smith and the toilet window incident?
Key has had the beefy squad about his person since election night and probably before.
It is odd.
Perhaps he has a glass jaw and does fear Trev.
We know, from the 'trannies on stage' coverage, that he can't 'dance like a butterfly'.
I couldn't comment on the appropriateness of how the PM uses the DPS, but as for carring the towel at the gym...
I remember being in Peru a couple of years ago, and especially in the tourist-trail areas security guards were absolutely everywhere. We sat down for breakfast at the airport in Arequipa, and it was the guard stationed next to the cafe who brought our coffee and brekkie out to us with a smile, and tried out some broken English on us. (Well, he carried it from the counter over to where we were sitting.)
Nobody was busy being assaulted or shot at the time (hardly surprising), and I'd guess he'd have been very bored just standing around. Simply being visible was 99% of his job, and I guess he figured that he may as well do something that helps him feel useful and makes a few friends while he's being visible.
In that light I'd hardly blame a member of the DPS for holding the PM's towel at the gym. If they'd been asked to show up simply as JK's personal towel rack I'd be asking more serious questions, though. I guess that's what the question is here.
Dont tell me your one of the teachers who are running scared regarding the new national standards - must be ah since your having a crack at Ann.. Gee and I thought you were running under the environmentalist banner. See the problem with a green flag is one tends to think of crack pots like Nandoor and Sue! The greens lost it when Rod died and the granny retired! You guys need to reinvent yourself, and drop the leaders you have - you will never garnish much support with those two.
Good story Mike - Peru! Lucky you!
Perhaps the towels of The Right Honourable etc. are particulary heavy, who can say?
grumpy green goblin - running scared? Nope, not me! Wrong about that and wrong about the Green Party and it's prospects, leaders and history.
That's quite a run of wrongs in one short post. Are you sure you know what this blog is about?
It's not Frogblog.
Good to have you here anyway.
Kia ora Robert,
Nandor and Sue? I actually enjoy their opinions and efforts and think we need more like them, but gee to think they are "running" the Green party is pretty uninformed. As I write this I put on my tie and get in my car to go to work, a middle class white male who votes Green! Beware, we are out there GGG!
Robb
Both Nandor and Sue are great people to spend time with Ruahines, as you might know.
Nandor is a nimble thinker and genuinely caring for the community as does Sue, who is a warm person one to one.
Goblin's comments represent those who have never met the pair, I would guess.
Nandor was here in Invercargill one day at the time he still had dreads wrapped around his head and as we were walking through the city it began to hail, hard! He was fine, my thinly protected head got battered! It was funny.
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