In France, when a person is accused of wrong-doing they are deemed to be guilty until they can prove their innocence.
In New Zealand, the same person would be regarded as being innocent until the accuser could prove the guilt. That is – everywhere in New Zealand other then at the Inland Revenue Department – they work on French law.
So, on that basis it could be said that Winston Peters is innocent – no-one has yet proven his guilt. But, surely there have been enough questions raised in and by the media – questions about the Glenn donation, the Vela donations and the Jones donation, that to fail to give reasonable explanations is in effect obstructing the path to the truth. If there is nothing to hide give us the facts.
Peters’ failure to even attempt to explain these matters and his insistence on arrogantly attacking any questioners is totally unacceptable behaviour from a person who draws his income from the public purse.
Surely the blue rinse set in Tauranga is not going to inflict this fellow on us again in November.
And speaking of unacceptable behaviour – the Labour Government, realising they are about to bite the dust, are flat out appointing all their cronies to cushy boards and public bodies.
They need to get these appointments made no later than 3 months out from an election so the process is in overdrive.
Last week alone they appointed 43 people to soft, publicly funded jobs. They have appointed 140 in the last five weeks.
People like Mike Williams, President of the Labour Party has picked up a directorship of the New Zealand Transport Agency, his fifth such appointment.
I suppose the rumoured $140,000 plus per year he receives from these appointments, fees paid by you and I the humble taxpayers, ensures that the New Zealand Labour Party can save on any presidential stipend.
It really is open season on jobs for the boys – and girls – and you and I will be keeping these people in the manner to which they have become accustomed.
Doesn’t it make you feel good to be such a benefactor?
Yeah right.
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Murry McCully’s newsletter - A Tsunami of Cronies? 25/8/08
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