PRESS RELEASE BOB SIMCOCK, MP HAMILTON WEST

“Paul Swain’s call for a more aggressive Commerce Commission should make people very afraid,” Bob Simcock, MP for Hamilton West, said today.

“This man doesn’t know the difference between a monopoly and a competitive market.”

“This is the man who called for price control in the competitive electricity retail sector, but opposed it in the monopoly electricity lines sector” Bob Simcock said.

“If he had responsibility for an ‘aggressive’ Commerce Commission who knows what would be controlled. His corner dairy would be at great risk”.

“Just like Cullen who can’t work out how much his superannuation policy will cost or how he would pay for it, Swain hasn’t got a clue” Mr Simcock concluded.

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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>>