This is becoming indefensible
More revelations making Labour MP, Taito Phillip Field’s claims of being a friendly chap helping out the needy look more like a calculating manipulative toad preying on the needy. Helen has spear tackled Field by placing him on leave while retaining his vote – but in the face of such outrageous claims, Field must be questioned and appropriate charges made if the allegations are proven followed by his resignation from Parliament. The holding pattern Helen has put the Field issue in can only be a holding pattern, at some point Field has to face the music, even if it means a By-election.
MP's $1000 gift 'to help' Thai
Taito Phillip Field gave $1000 to Sunan Siriwan because the Thai tiler needed it, the MP's lawyer said yesterday. Mr Field's "gift" is the latest twist in the saga involving the MP's handling of immigration cases, which have been under police investigation since August 31.
The MP's lawyer, Simativa Perese, said Mr Field ran into Mr Siriwan in Samoa last Thursday when he was dropping his daughter Dorothy at her home, where Mr Siriwan, his partner and son were staying. "Siriwan said to him that he was having problems with his debtors - one was not paying," Mr Perese said. "He had his boy's school fees due the following week. He was down to his last $200 or $300. So he asked Phillip for some money to help tide him over. Phillip had some money on him and he gave him $1000."
But Mr Siriwan's lawyer, Olinda Woodroffe, said Mr Siriwan had signed an affidavit giving a different version of how the MP came to give him the money. "It's quite a serious allegation relating to that money," she said. She was trying to get the affidavit to the New Zealand police in charge of the investigation yesterday. Mr Perese said Mr Field's gift was made a day before he learned that Mr Siriwan had been to see Mrs Woodroffe and changed his story.
The tiler now claims that Mr Field promised New Zealand work visas for him and his partner in exchange for tiling Mr Field's house in Samoa - contradicting what Mr Siriwan told an inquiry by Auckland QC Noel Ingram.
posted by Bomber @ 12:34 pm
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I feel bloody sorry for this tiler guy...surely this is the sort of migrant we should be trying to encourage. He has obvious skills as shown on tv the other night and is prepared to work...and we are constantl;y hearing that the country is short on skilled tradespeople...why are we not encouraging people like this?
Instead of lazy welfare dependents from the Islands, tim s.
And I am half Samoan myself and can admit it.
What is there to be proud of when some people come here and go straight on Welfare. I'm proud of people who come here and work hard to better the lot of their families and themselves. Through their actions, society benefits as a whole. There is nothing to be proud of when talking about people who leech of the system.
'Pacific Pride' should not be something felt just based on the basis of race to the exclusion of all other factors...it should be based upon the fact that someone of your race has actually achieved something positive...this is not the case here.
Bring in the tiler. Send Field back.
Stop Labour's attack on our constitution.
People are very quick to form opinions when all they have to form them on is media reports, which of course publish items that will hold the readers/viewers interest. Raoul is an afakasi who may, if bought up in NZ, may not have a full understanding of the culture of which he/she is descended from. By the way are you Raoul doing anything to educate/help these people that you say are 'leeching' the system. Maybe it is lack of understanding and or knowledge of living in NZ that is causing them to feel out of their depth at times? Who gives you the right to judge these people? Taito has been unfairly treated by the media. Fortunately some people who have other maeans of learning what is going on, are far more informed, and I would ask, where is the tiler living in Samoa? maybe not in the wee fale shown on tv. Who is paying for the Thai's solicitor.. Woodroffe doesn't work for love, she works for money and publicity. Methinks the tiler should go back to Thailand, and Tatio appologised to.
I've worked hard. I have done manual labour both here and in Samoa. I have a degree now, earned through my own hard study and paid for largely by myself. I try to encourage my cousins etc to work hard and study..but few of them take my advice up. Many of them are involved in gangs. It saddens me.
Raoul, any Samoan coming to NZ from Samoa must have a work permit, they can not come over here and just go on the benefit. It is misinformation like you have posted, that causes people to make an uninformed opinion on matters they know nothing about. Just like the Tatio Field case.
One shouldn't state something as a fact unless you KNOW it is true.
maybe Raoul is someone wanting to pretend to be PI so he can push rednecked views?
I agree with you Anonymous, it does make you wonder about Rauol maybe pretending to be PI. If he has worked in Samoa he would know all about visa requirements.
AS to that Woodroffe trying to turn the money (the $1000 that Taito gave the man because the Thai said people wouldn't pay the money they owed him.)that Taito gave that Thai, how do we know it wasn't suggested to the Thai to ask for the money, so that this 'quite serious allegation" can be made. Also raises the question of who owes him money? Keep the lying Thai out of New Zealand. Also the problem that Woodroffe has with Taito goes back years doesn't it? 1993 I believe.
Still am wondering who is paying the expensive lawyer, maybe someone or some church group or someone who doesn't like labour.. Worth thinking about.
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