Wednesday, October 06, 2004
Damn - spoke too soon
The day My Right accuses Social Steve Maharey of being sensible - he goes out of his way to demonstrate that I was getting a little carried away. This from question time yesterday:
Dr Muriel Newman: Would the Minister have disestablished the Community Employment Group if there had not been any adverse publicity?Hat Tip to SageNZ for highlighting one of the most glaring contradictions since Michael Moore won an Oscar for a 'documentary'.
Hon STEVE MAHAREY: No, I definitely would not have, because this Government works through those kinds of debates in a very cool and calm fashion to decide what it will do. What we have found on numerous occasions, as the member will know, is that the accusations that were made about, for example, the Pink Kit home-birthing kit for women, the Mâori Women’s Welfare League, and the Porangahau marae committee all proved to be utterly, utterly baseless. We do not react to that sort of criticism; we base our changes on evidence.
