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Chris Carter: just one unanswered question

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David Harcourt
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Posted: 1 Aug 2010 03:31 am

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I have just one question about the Chris Carter debacle, and it is this:

My understanding is that when one has a hissy fit you throw your toys out of the cot.

You don't fling yourself out of the cot, leaving the toys behind and doing yourself permanent injury.

Was I wrong in this belief?

I think I should be told.

Carter with another Labour party hack, whose name (mercifully) escapes me. No, wait. Isn't that The Most Gifted Finance Minister in the History of the World on the left? Why, I believe it is.

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Posted: 1 Aug 2010 03:48 am

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I'm sorry, I've just thought of another question:

Given on the one side everything which Chris Carter's presence in Parliament did for Gay Pride, as the first openly gay MP (or was that Marilyn Waring? - I don't remember), and given on the other side the tsunami of prejudice against gays which has rolled over the country as a result of Carter's appalling behaviour this year (yes, it's irrational and, yes, it's very unfair, but it's very real), would homosexuals in New Zealand actually have been better off if Carter had never become a public figure?

They might. They just might.

Carter's behaviour this year has injured, and will injure in the future, many besides himself. The damage starts with (a) diminished public acceptance of gay rights and (b) the potential for a further decline in support for the Labour Party. But there will also be a further loss of public confidence in politicians generally.

So far as the Labour Party is concerned, surely there must be at least some on the margins of the party who are asking themselves what kind of organisation Helen Clark was running for all those years that it could spawn and them promote high within its ranks monsters such as Carter and Shane Jones? If there is a further loss of support for Labour, Carter and his ilk can be expected to attribute this to Goff. Unlike Carter, Goff has handled himself through this crisis with dignity and calm - a performance which has contrasted vividly with that of Carter, who seems to be one of the most consistently repellent people ever to entered Parliament. I have to think back to Muldoon before I can come up with anyone who is equally despicable. This is quite an achievement, Mr Carter.

Carter (at right) with Mommie Dearest (in red) in happier times:

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