HDPA writes:
I don’t think we should for one minute tolerate what Shane Jones has just done.
And what the PM enables him to do.
Shane Jones has now threatened revenge against whoever it was who complained to the Herald about his comments at the forestry awards evening.
He says he knows who went to the Herald and he’s going to “deal to them”.
“When the election comes around and the Cabinet restrictions have been loosened, then I am personally going to deal to these National Party sympathisers who thought that it was a smart idea to try and have me quivering in a corner by racing to the media,” he said.
“At the appropriate time, I will deal to them as a big-time, New Zealand First wrestler.”
That is not OK.
It is not OK for a minister in Cabinet to threaten utu.
He is one of the most powerful politicians in this country which means the impact that he can have on a single person or their business could be devastating.
I don’t know what he’s planning… he hasn’t been clear about it… but threats like that are intolerable.
Basically a cowardly bully.
Now he’s admitted he told the forestry awards audience to vote for him if they want billions in funding and when they complained about what they call bribery, he’s threatened them with utu.
Jones’ behaviour would not have been tolerated by previous governments.
Can you imagine Clark, Key or English making excuses for this kind of nonsense?
He would have been sacked long ago by any other Prime Minister.
