Dalziel Resignation Inevitable

“The resignation of Lianne Dalziel as Minister of Immigration was inevitable,” said New Zealand First leader Rt Hon Winston Peters.

“Lianne Dalziel is the victim of a pattern of propaganda that she had allowed to build up around her portfolio in which the facts have become secondary to political spin.

“Her way of conducting politics was always going to have her found out and given that there have been numerous times in the past when the Minister has been found wanting this time she just had to go.

“The irony of this case of course is that the right decision was made with respect to the Sri Lankan girl but there was a botch-up in the Government’s presentation in its side of the story,” said Mr Peters.

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>