Prime Minister plays injured virgin in parliament

I’m listening to the Prime Minister speaking in parliament. He’s only five minutes in to his speech and already he is absolutely insufferable. There he is, on the “mow-rill highground”, accusing the Opposition leader of muckraking, and then fiddling around with the details of whether his Special Minister ticked a box on a form or not.

Who cares at this stage whether he ticked the box or not? The real issue here is why he set up a company in Panama and what he planned to do with it. The frigging trust in New Zealand is completely irrelevant except for its heightened secrecy role. It exists only to hold shares in the Panama company. It’s the Panama company he needs to explain. But he can’t. So he’s flinging insults about instead.

His tone is all wrong – cynical, antipatiku and nasty. It’s the kind of attitude that goes down really badly with the switcher vote that is switching away in droves already. But I think he’s given up on those anyway, because the corrupt money is more important.