My local Member of Parliament, Rodney Hide, has been getting a tough time from Labour. Not content to flex the intimidating muscle legally afforded him by Government, Shane Jones responded to Hide's letter to his Finance and Expenditure Select Committee on Thursday by tearing it up!

The code of professional conduct is apalling. Thousands of New Zealand businesses every day have to line up to dot the i's and cross the t's OR ELSE. But here, at the highest level, a parliamentarian flouts his duty like some kind of autocratic Krusty The Clown. Handle your paperwork with care or the IRD will come down on you like hellfire. But Labour can get off scot free because Speaker Margeret Wilson's just fine with that.

Come's Friday, and not willing to let them get away with it, Rodney takes Margeret Wilson's letter to him and TEARS THAT UP.
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Now Wilson's in a bind. RNZ News, as Rodney Hide's blog also points out, could get no comment from her. What can she say? If she complains about her letter being ripped up that's double standards. All she can do is pucker up and take the hit!

I think Rodney's going to be merciful and leave it at that, but why should he? Labour are between a rock and a hard place- complain and make themselves hypocrites or shutup and take as much of a beating as the opposition can muster!

I think every opposition member of parliament should go into the house tomorrow and rip up Labour correspondence until it makes the news from here to Turin! Exterminate the epistles!