Saturday 9 May 2020

That zombie "Sir" Geoffrey again.... (May 10, 2020)

Dennis Frank8
10 May 2020 at 9:50 am
Sir Geoff reminds us that our western democracy is a privilege-based system inherited from Britain:  "It is a long-standing constitutional convention that the substance of the advice from the law officers is not shared outside government in England and New Zealand."  https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/10-05-2020/geoffrey-palmer-hallelujah-new-zealand-government-works/
"Professor J Ll J Edwards, in a respected 1984 work The Attorney General, Politics and the Public Interest, stated there is “an impregnable moat” around the law officers’ opinions. Legal professional privilege applies to the crown."
Our local Don Quixote, the leader of the opposition, is having a tilt at this antique windmill.  "Bah, humbug!"  "Why should tradition trump the principle of transparent governance??"
Good question, but simple Simon hasn't actually thought of articulating it yet.  Still, keeping it tacit may not stop folks noticing it…
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  • Morrissey8.1
    10 May 2020 at 10:06 am
    Geoffrey Palmer is a coward, a toady, an utter disgrace to this nation; he should be shunned by all decent people.
        • [Whether Geoffrey Palmer has a pimple on his butt is completely irrelevant to his expertise in constitutional law. You have a pattern of behaviour and one (!) of the hallmarks is avoiding debating a topic that is brought up and instead deflecting and going for slurring the source (AKA shooting the messenger). You have received several warnings but to no avail. Take a fortnight off – Incognito]
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      • Morrissey9
        10 May 2020 at 10:16 am
        He would defend me if I and my lawless cronies descended on a boatload of peace protestors and killed, say, nine of them. Actually, he would sit there silently as he did in 2010 and let some South American dictator do all the thinking and talking.
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      • Adrian Thornton10
        10 May 2020 at 10:25 am
        The most important news of recent times..the godfather of rock…the originator of R&B has left planet earth…..I am sure Sun Ra will be there at his new destination ready to welcome him.
        This is a great interview….

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      • Sanctuary11
        10 May 2020 at 10:25 am
        I've been reading the various toy throwing and hissy fits from journalists in the press gallery in recent days and it occurred to me that COVID-19 has at the moment led to a fundamental power shift between the government and the press gallery, and much of their anger and frustration can be sourced in butt hurt egos that have sensed they've been sidelined by Jacinda and excoriated by the public.
        Basically, Jacinda uses social media and the live 1pm press conferences to talk directly to the population without the interpretive filter usually applied by the press gallery. That has made the gallery heavy weights redundant, mere observers and repeaters of the PM’s news of the day.
        At the same time, the general public has had a real time front row seat to how the press gallery behaves – the petty focus on gotchas, the constant repetition of questions on trivial issues, the attempts to manufacture conflict – and has been appalled, and hasn't been slow to let the media hacks know how appalled it is. Journalists are thin skinned at the best of times, and the reaction of the press gallery to this unwelcome collision with the reality of actual public opinion has often been petulant, self-righteous and sulking with not a moment of collective self-reflection.
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