Life in the fast lane
Judith Collins has joined the long list of National MPs with their hands buried up to the elbows in the taxpayer’s pockets. She claims it was all within the rules. That doesn’t make it right.
MPs accommodation rort
Worse than I imagined
We learn from rort-buster Pete Hodgson that Pansy Wong and her husband have been running private companies out of her taxpayer-funded electorate office. I don’t see how she can remain in Parliament now. Who set and enforced the standards that have seen so many ministers involved in rorts? There’s only one person to point the finger at: Key
Ministers’ housing claims up 17% as rorts continue
Weren’t Bill ‘Double Dipton’ English and other ministers caught rorting the housing allowance system last year? Didn’t the Government revamp the system by giving ministers capped allowances, supposedly to save money and stop rorts? Why then are we, as I predicted, paying more than ever while ministers blatantly rip us off?
Key’s ministers still at the trough
You’ll remember how Bill ‘Double Dipton’ English was caught claiming the out of town allowance for living in his family home in Wellington. As a half-arsed solution, out of town ministers are now limited to claiming $37,500 a year for their Wellington accommodation. So, how come eight ministers are still claiming far more than that?
The slippery standards of Mr Key
Yesterday, John Key cleverly tried to reframe his ministers’ failure to obey his standards on use of perks: “You don’t want 120 Members […]
Bill’s pants are on fire
Bill English claims (echoes of another Bill!) that he did not have pecuniary relations with his family trust: “I didn’t have a pecuniary […]
English condemned
Bill English stands condemned. Only in part by the Auditor General. Her report is ambiguous: The result was that the Crown was renting […]
Do as I say – not as I do!
Bill English knows a thing or two about screwing every possible cent out of the system. He gets his generous $276,000 salary. For […]
Dipton Watch
Greetings to the good people of Dipton. Must be fun to be so much in the news lately! I hope some local entrepreneurs […]
I live in Dipton!
That last post was probably a bit dull for a Friday morning, so now for something completely different. I was a little surprised […]
Pecuniary interest 2
Bill English keeps claiming that he has “no pecuniary interest” in his family trust. What does that mean? A while back John A […]
Caption Competition
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 […]
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”. […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
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. […]
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. […]
Key’s lies on housing rort exposed
As I alluded to yesterday, the claims from John Key that he has slashed hundreds of thousands of dollars from the cost of […]
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 […]
Time for tory charity?
Following the success of TV3’s ‘Big Night In’ Telethon which raised over $2 million for KidsCan, I was thinking there are others that […]
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, […]
Uncowed
Shh. Hear that sound? It’s National’s mud throwing machine gearing up again. Inevitably, they’ve released Labour’s ministers’ spending. No evidence of any rort but […]
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 […]
One law for all?
Are you? a disgraced former minister who resigned from Parliament in shame? a National MP who rents from a National minister (Judith Collins […]
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 […]
Worth the Bill
What would you call it when you collect $900 a week by false pretenses? What would you call it when you tell the Electoral […]
One of these things is not like the other VI
One of these things is not like the other One of these things is not quite the same. Can you guess which one […]