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Your friendly local necromancer
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Te Awamutu, New Zealand
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![]() So the Speaker of The House (the Hon Margaret Wilson) wants to improve the image of Parliament by preventing news coverage of politicians behaving like children.
Here's a novel idea Margaret.... Forget about the cameras and instruct the politicians to behave like grown-ups. And what's with "ejecting" as a form of punishment? That's sort of like kicking a child out of class and telling them to go downtown - it doesn't seem much like a punishment to me. Let's hit them in the pockets with a hefty fine, or prevent them from voting on the next bill. I bet the party leaders would start thinking seriously about the behaviour of their crew if it meant losing a few votes. This doesn't seem like rocket science. Everyone I talk to is sick to death of the behaviour of these people. It's pathetic. I say to all politicians who think it's just part of political life to hurl insults at each other.... GROW UP and start setting an example. At the moment you are embarrassing us as a nation. |
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Your friendly local necromancer
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Te Awamutu, New Zealand
Posts: 100
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This story is getting rather disturbing. TV3 has been kicked out of Parliament for three days for showing MP Ron Mark behaving in a disgraceful manner, while Ron Mark himself gets no real punishment at all.
I hope TV3 continues the good fight and milks every bit of publicity they can out of this. Do we really want to live in a country where the press are not allowed to report the unacceptable behaviour of politicians? |
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Your friendly local necromancer
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Te Awamutu, New Zealand
Posts: 100
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Technology commentator Bruce Simpson has started a campaign to address the disgraceful state of affairs in Parliament. Check it out at:
http://www.aardvark.co.nz/stopit.shtml I encourage everyone to take a few minutes and fill out the form. Tell them that enough is enough! |
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Your friendly local necromancer
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Te Awamutu, New Zealand
Posts: 100
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I wrote to the Speaker of the House, and to her credit she gave me the following personal reply:
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