An unhappy No Right Turn

No Right Turn on the Marcroft affair:

Marcroft has been told to apologise, so that’s pretty much an admisison of guilt. At the same time, a mere apology is not enough for such a disturbing allegation. Marcroft has done something completely unacceptable: attempting to leverage government spending to use it as a weapon to bully and bribe an opponent. That sort of behaviour has absolutely no place in our politics, and neither do people who do it. She simply has to go.

Only after she has told us which Minister she was acting on behalf of.

And NRT on the Curran affair:

Back in February, Broadcasting Minister Clare Curran embarrassed herself in Question Time trying to pretend that she hadn’t been trying to hide a meeting with RNZ’s head of news, Carol Hirschfeld. First, the meeting never happened. Then it was “informal”. RNZ executives obediently trotted out the same line in front of a select committee, saying that the two had just bumped into one another at a cafe and had a few words over breakfast – entirely natural, nothing suspicious. But it turns out that that was a lie, and it has now cost Hirschfeld her job. …

Which is fair enough – causing your bosses to mislead Parliament is definitely a firing offence. But pretty obviously, Hirschfeld isn’t the only one who should be losing her job over this. From the start, we’ve had nothing but lies from Curran. Under Helen Clark, deliberately misleading the public was a sacking offence. Will Jacinda Ardern hold her Ministers to the same standard?

Doesn’t look like it. Much easier to do a selfie with Ed Sheeran.