Dim-Post on why Clark isn’t losing it

Some people have suggested that Helen Clark is losing it, with his smear this morning against the Serious Fraud Office. Danyl at the Dim-Post though has a more logical explanation:

At first glance the Prime Ministers allegation that the Serious Fraud Office is in league with the National Party – for which she has not a shred of proof – suggests that she has joined her former foreign minister for a stroll in the gloomy sunless woods of paranoid delusion.

I mean it is extraordinary to have the Prime Minister accuse the SFO of actively working against her Government.

I don’t think the PM is losing it – I think she’s partly throwing shit in the hope that some of it sticks but I also think Clark assumes that the SFO staff abuse their authority to empower their friends and destroy their enemies through leaks and political theater because that’s what she would do if she ran the department. The notion that these public servants carry out their investigations with integrity and diligence without turning them into a savage partisan farce is simply unimaginable to her.

I wouldn’t want to argue that Danyl is necessairly wrong!