DIRTY POLITICS - PART 3: Chapter 4
When
“Crusher“Judith Collins becomes the National’s horse, speaking into the Whale’s
ear
Thakur
Ranjit Singh
An indelible link between the Beehive and Whale Oil blogger Cameron
Slater has damaged the Key brand. The Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde character of John
Key has been revealed by Dirty Politics.
This will be further revealed on the election night when voters will decide on
a leader lacking courage to stand up for integrity and a vision of shaping the
country on foundation of a clean governance.
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Is this how Dirty Politics projected the image of John Key: A nice smiling likable man to the public, who has hired hounds to do all National Party's dirty work? |
The other excess baggage that voters will not forget is the unholy alliance
between the “sacked” Justice/Police and ACC Minister Judith Collins and Cameron
Slater. In this unethical and immoral marriage, confidentiality and sensitivity
of Cabinet Office and executive arm of government have been compromised. This
is when the Cabinet “horse” (or shall we say, the mare?) regularly mouthed such
information in the blogger friend’s year, for equally unholy usages. Read on.
The adage, “birds of feather, flock together” is true
for the unholy alliance between Cameron Slater and Judith Collins. While the
contact point of other attack-bloggers to the National Government over many
years have been John Key’s office, Slater seemed to be privileged in having his
ear close to the “mare” in Key’s Cabinet.
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Whale Oil blogger used to hear it from the horse's mouths, both from the Beehive (Prime Minister's Office) and the Cabinet Office of Justice/ Police/ACC Minister, Judith Collins |
“One cultivated the iron woman persona of Crusher
Collins, future Prime Minister, the
other the reckless bully-boy persona of Whale Oil. They were drawn together by
right-wing politics and a shared attraction to aggressive and often petty
attack politics” (p.45).
“Slater was a devoted supporter of Collins, using his
blogs to promote her and to attack her critics. Collins, in return, fed a
continuous supply of material to Slater: public press release, political
gossip, tip-offs and serious leaks. She boasted for him in 2013 that “you might
not like it but Whaleoil is better informed and better read than any other news
outlet or social media. “ They were in constant touch, via phone and e-mail.
Perhaps this now explains why Whale Oil has unfair advantage and blessings (and
hence reach and popularity) over others.
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In light of Dirty Politics, does this look familiar? Whose character does this represent, who projects two-faced image to Kiwis? |
While Chapter 4 illustrates cases of various other
communication, including the case of transfer of a prisoner, where Slater used
to “hear” directly from the horse’s mouth in the National’s Cabinet Office, the
case of Bronwyn Pullar, a former National Party activist, needs mention. This
is a case where details of some 6,700 Accident Compensation Commission (ACC)
clients were accidently sent to Pullar, who herself was a client of ACC, of
which Collins was the Minister. The support person of Pullar in negotiations
was former National Party President Michelle Boag. Slater had an axe to grind with
Boag because she was the person who replaced John Slater, Cameron’s father as
president of National Party many years earlier. Hence, he regarded Boag as an
enemy and attacked her at every opportunity. A leak was made to Herald on Sunday and key players were
named and it became a controversial issue. Collins denied that she or her
office leaked the letter.
That in gist reveals what happens when the Captain of a
ship refuses to make himself informed of the message because he is so busy
shooting the messenger. It may be too late, or perhaps useless for John Key to
read Dirty Politics after the
election. Perhaps that may be appropriate, as he may have more time on his
hands as Opposition Leader, if he chooses to remain so. Or perhaps he can read it
in his retirement at his Hawaiian retreat batch, and regret that a Prime
Minister, like rust, should never sleep. He should have fired Collins a long
time ago. He needs to continuously and continually get informed, even from
those he despises.
Chapter 4 “raises a number of concerns about Collins: she was
apparently unworried about the leak of police evidence; she was directly
involved in providing information about and attacking a Ministerial Services
staff member; she disclosed confidential department and client information, not
to mention possibly leaking controversial Pullar e-mail; she made it her
business to feed a stream of information, gossip and documents for use on the
Whale Oil site. She was also a close friend and trusted confidante of Cameron
Slater, which says much about her as a politician.
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"You naughty boy! I was after your position, but you got rid of me. Thanks for taking your time, and not reading Dirty Politics". [Photo from The Daily Blog, KIWI PUNDIT caption] |
What surprises yours truly, this Kiwi Fijian, who has seem much
muck in Fiji, is the uncanny ability of mainstream Kiwis to be unaffected by
the filth that Dirty Politics digs
up. And more so, their uncanny ability to take so much of s**t from a
government whose leader appears to project such a clean and likeable image.
People have to make a choice whether they want this type of dirt
in their next government.
[E-mail: thakurji@xtra.co.nz]
[Disclaimer: All information in the above article is
either direct quotations or interpretations from Nicky Hager’s book, Dirty Politics]
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