Labour gets dirty, again

Labour seem to be trying to stop leaks with their restrictions on shower time and water use for Kiwis coming in February but they have today leaked more pointless stuff from Labour Party plants at a National Party conference held a few months back.

In the midst of a very bad week for Labour, the country is deep in debt and a Michael Cullen managed recession, with National's tax cuts gaining good public traction, Labour slip out some more dirt collected by one of their Labour Party insiders at The Standard, Labour's Blog site.

“Winning is everything my man,” he said in the tape. 

TV3.co.nz  , Bill English

Hardly earth shattering stuff.

The true colours of the Labour Party certainly shine when their backs are up against the wall but if the best they can do is leak mild stuff like this to a lap dog left wing media(the hopeless Duncan Garner)then they need to dig deeper and I'm sure they will.

Labours pointless muck raking says more about them than National.

It is desperate stuff from a party that will clearly try anything to win.

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Should I be paranoid for speaking my mind?

Will my rubbish bin searched?

Am I going to get caught on secret tape from a Labour Party stooge connected to The Standard Blog, saying something controversial like Hello?

Is a toilet bowl cam on their list?

Are agents 2.01 and 006.5 on my tail?

Well I might be forgiven for being just a little paranoid. Since I started talking about Labour Party's Blog, The Standard yesterday, I had a visitor from the Labour Party almost straight away, checking out the interesting points that I had to make about their covert operation at the National Party Conference last weekend.

They have now been on the site for over 17 hrs:

Number of Entries: Entry Page Time: Visit Length: Browser OS Resolution

5 6th August 2008 18:25:10 17 hours 18 mins 33 secs MSIE 6.0 Windows XP 1024x768

Returning Visits: Location: Hostname: Entry Page: Exit Page: Referring URL:

0 Wellington New Zealand pspc18-241.parliament.govt.nz (202.22.18.241) [Label IP Address] darrenrickard.blogspot.com/2008/08/sub-standard-political-attack-backfires.html darrenrickard.blogspot.com/2008/08/who-is-deep-throat.html www.thestandard.org.nz/?p=2685

Apart from the fact that they are wasting my taxpayer money on surfing the internet, instead of working, it is curious as to the connection between the Labour person on Political Animal all day today and those Labour Party supporters who run the Labour Party Blog, The Standard.

Even looking at hermaphrodite porn all day would be more productive than trolling my weighty opinions looking for reasons to come knocking on my door.

My readers can join the dots, I'm sure Barry Sopher, who knows the exact names of the group connected to The Standard, who did the bugging, will hold on tight to his sources. He has standards and principles.

It is a shame those connected to Labourgate clearly don't.

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Sub-Standard political attack backfires

It has been revealed today that two members connected the Labour Party funded Blog Sub Standard were waiting outside the National Party Conference in the weekend. Dressed in National Party get ups. The president of the Young Socialists Labour Party confirmed it this morning.

It was someone connected with the Labour Party who secretly taped the conversations and then leaked them to the media.

This is the real scandal. Dirty filthy spying. There was nothing on the tapes that was secret or revealing. No big deal.

It is a new low in NZ politics to have a Watergate style attack on your political opponents.

It is the sign of a desperate, dying government, clinging onto power, in the face of a recession, crumbling public services, high crime rate and a funding scandal surrounding its major support party Winston Peters NZ First.

The bloggers on the sub-standard need to come out and reveal their involvement in this spying scandal, they know who deep throat is I’m sure.

It is going to blow up in your esteemed leaders face. Kiwis don't like the sort of underhanded sneaky behaviour like that from a Labour Party plant at the National Party conference.


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