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Didn't really follow the details of the case but sounds like good fucking job IMO. MPs should be a hell of a lot cleaner than that.

And shames on Labour for the amount of time they sandbagged on all that.
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I always thought he should stand down immediately because of moral culpability at least, but no, that is not the way in NZ politics - it's all about legal culpability

then police/Crown lawyers did their worst and actually prosecuted him

he clung on to his position as long as he could spouting diatribe about how he was innocent and that any trial would prove that he was totally innocent

yeh thanks mate - goodbye, good riddance


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18 July 2006
Labour MP Russel Fairbrother "There is no evidence to doubt what Mr Field says. The overall conclusion is that we have a member of Parliament who works very hard and very diligently, and who cooperated fully with the inquiry."

Fairbrother on the Ingram report findings: "This is a report that Mr Field can wave around as a tribute to his integrity..."

19 July 2006
PM Helen Clark rules out a further inquiry into Field as "unnecessary"
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I actually agree that a further inquiry was unecessary - these were criminal matters and fucking about with it in Parliament wasn't the point anymore.
She wasn't coming at it from that angle though.
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Did anyone see his daughter making comment on TV after the verdict? It was very racist imo and possibly could attract police attention because of her not very veiled threats.
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RobW said:
Did anyone see his daughter making comment on TV after the verdict? It was very racist imo and possibly could attract police attention because of her not very veiled threats.


if any further proof (of his guilt) were necessary...
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Without being all tinfoil hat on this, I wonder if Ingram will come out sometime and tell how Cullen/Clark were clear about the enquiry process in order to achieve the result which suited them at the time. I mean the entire thing was a waste of time when you look back at the way it was run.
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The biggest lesson may be to prime ministers to be more careful about playing politics when it comes to setting up inquiries. Labour thought it could get the outcome it wanted by limiting Ingram's ability to investigate the allegations against Field.

Despite that handicap, Ingram produced a report which was damning of the MP. Ingram can hold his head high. The QC is alone in emerging from this affair with his credit enhanced.


John Armstrong: Field verdict shows perils of trying to play politics
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you know thats the one lesson I doubt any political party will learn

if anything this case is an indication that our 'clean' business world, business and political masters and our lack of corruption are yet more NZ made myths that are coming to there use by date
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haha.. yeah, take that Labour! Froggy