He truly stuffed it up, did 'Mr Speaker', Lockwood Smith.
The 'Please Sir, I can't hear!' moment from Green MP Mojo Mathers should never have happened and the subsequent 'poor me' wheedle from Smith is just silly. Get it sorted, Lockwood. You should have had it sorted before the House sat, following the election of our first deaf MP - would you have us believe you were unaware she'd joined the team?
Come now, Lockie. We're not all dim.
Public Address declares 'This is not a complicated issue and they are correct.
I found the aspect below especially interesting, given the frequency at which the issue of confidentiality gets mentioned in the Council I sit on. Seems it's a sore point for those who would dictate :-)
"He claimed that the Green MPs present at a meeting on the issue yesterday morning – Gareth Hughes and Mathers herself – had breached the confidentiality of the meeting and “politicised” it. Hughes said there had been no suggestion that the meeting was confidential – why should it be? – and Mathers had been clear that she would talk about the issue both to the media and in her maiden speech."
You're not being a little partisan here RG?
ReplyDeleteI can understand why Lockwood would be peeved at yet another Greenwash beatup and misrepresentation of what occured in the meeting. He didn't say no to funding. He said I have to go through the normal legal channels if you want EXTRA funding. For some reason the Greens think everyone needs to pander to them and break the law for them rather than taking responsibility and sorting it out themselves.
The woman has been around parliament for 5 years. She and your vaunted Greens know how the place works. As an MP she is not an employee. The party and the individual is already funded and it's up to them to sort it out.
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I am being partisan, paranormal, naturally enough. Mojo has stayed with my family and I here in Riverton, so I'm defending her honour, but Lockwood was negligent in not having this issue sorted before any criticism could be leveled. Your silly claim that 'the Greens think every one should pander to them' shows your own leanings. Mojo and 'the Party' had made efforts to 'sort it out', but the responsibility lies with the Speaker and so the blame being sheeted to him, is well deserved. If he'd thought, he'd know that anything that seemed to be disadvantaging a disadvantaged person, in this case a representative of the deaf community and the broader disadvantaged community, would go badly for him. All this could have been avoided, Lockie old son, if you'd had a wee think.
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