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Corruption must never be tolerated
I have to disagree with my comrade Zetetic’s post arguing that it’s best if Bill English stays in office. Yes, this scandal has […]
He’s good where he is, thanks
Around the media, they’re talking about the growing odds English will be sacked. The other day, my mate Marty asked ‘who would replace Bill?’ and I said […]
Johnnie’s Boys
subversifpoet sent us this song about our corrupt government:
Poor Bill
Bill English is teetering on the edge. National spinners are claiming that he has done what is needed to “close the issue down”. […]
Talk about politics
RNZ’s Kathryn Ryan talks to Matthew Hooton and Andrew Campbell about the failures of Key’s trip to NYC, English’s terminal status and contenders […]
Who would replace Bill?
There’s a grim irony to Bill English’s career. Despite being regarded as competent and having a Cullen-like role as the heavy-lifter in this […]
No remorse from English
Last night I posted on Bill English’s attempt to shift blame by claiming the system had failed him, and argued that he wasn’t […]
More questions for Double Dipton
A Colmar Brunton survey out yesterday showed that by a two to one margin Kiwis believe Bill English has acted wrongly and his […]
English: ‘the system failed me’
Just noticed this comment from Bill English on the topic of his housing allowance scam: “At all times my decisions have been driven […]
English admits he’s been rorting us
Bill English has now paid back all the money he rorted from the taxpayer via the ministerial housing allowance during this term of […]
Legal vs. Moral
There’s an old lawyer joke: “When the facts are on your side, bang the facts. When the law’s on your side, bang the […]
Pay freeze would cause long-term damage
While filling his own pockets with our money, Bill ‘Double Dipton’ English is threatening public sevants with a five-year pay freeze – with […]
‘If it happened in Zimbabwe, we would call it corruption’
Trev on the money laundering bill. Has a go at a certain Bill who has been laundering a lot of our money. Very […]
Billalice in Wonderwelly
Things must be getting decidedly trippy for Deputy PM Bill English about now, and not in a good way. While his glorious leader […]
Armstrong takes on Double Dipton
John Armstrong joins the list of commentators saying Bill English shouldn’t get a cent for his housing rort: The time has come for Bill “Double […]
Curiouser and curiouser
It’s not just Bill English that’s twisting in the wind over the rearrangement of his affairs to provide a pecuniary benefit to his […]
Stupid hypocritical ACE cuts
Night classes – Adult and Community Education (ACE). An incredibly cost effective and valuable part of the NZ education sector for decades. The […]
John and Bill cost us $7 million in two months
You’ll remember that in the Budget National decided to suspend payments to the Cullen Fund, which is designed to help fund the future […]
Billy and the Baroness
In an extraordinary coincidence, the Attorney-General in the UK is about to lose her job for pretty much the same rort as Bill […]
Double standards for Double Dipton?
Our readers pointed out some interesting quotes in yesterday’s thread on Bill English’s attempt to bully journalists into silence over his housing allowance rort. […]
The story Bill English doesn’t want you to see
On Wednesday last week, Labour released new information on Bill English’s housing allowance rort. Naturally, the media raised the issues with English. TVOne […]
Bullying the media
National are up to their old tricks again – bullying the media to try and shut down critical comment. This time the culprit […]
English owes us disclosure
I’ve posted before on “mainstream” media editorials, their variable quality and the paradox (in this world of blogging) of their anonymity. Every now […]
One of these things is not like the other VII
One of these things is not the other, One of these things is not quite the same… Can you guess which one is […]
“What else can I do?”, asks Blinky Bill.
We told him here months ago – acknowledge what everybody knows: that he lives in Wellington with his family, and he should claim […]
Breaking English
Bill English is not holding up well to the persistent questions put to him in Parliament about shuffling around his financial appearance to […]
English’s story disintegrating
Pete Hodgson is continuing to chip away at English’s ministerial allowance story. English looks very uncomfortable as Brownlee and Key cover for him. […]
A rort is a rort is a rort
And by any other name it smells as bad. John Key has annouced a reform of the rules for ministerial accommodation allowance. A […]
Double bubble trouble
It’s a rare day that I agree with Bill English but he’s right about the danger of another housing boom. The last bubble […]
More questions for English
Yesterday, John Armstrong talked about the Auditor-General’s 2001 report into eligibility for a Wellington accommodation allowance: the then Auditor-General David MacDonald scrutinised allowances […]
Unemployment back to English’s ‘realistic’ level
Who said this? “if we continue with National’s policies over the next three years we will be able to create another 115,000 jobs […]
What a coincidence
So there I was, just a walking down the street, and $47,000 just fell out of the sky in tax free readies, bam, […]
English in serious trouble
Over at Red Alert, Trevor Mallard has posted a form that all MPs wanting an out-of-town allowance must fill out. It asks MPs […]
The house built on sand
English, now known by the moniker Double Dipton, has decided to give back half the amount to has rorted so far from the taxpayer. Rather […]
Why don’t they just stop ripping us off?
Key admits his ministers are rorting the system – exploiting the allowance not for need but just because it gives them a chance […]