Rodney Hide: “I will do anything for love but I won’t pay her fare”

Hide's overseas trip included LA theme park and wedding
Act leader Rodney Hide took his girlfriend, Louise Crome, to an amusement park in Los Angeles during their taxpayer-funded trip that was also timed to coincide with her brother's wedding near London. The Herald has learned Mr Hide squeezed in a visit to Universal Studios after an official meeting with a top Los Angeles City Council official.

Rodney Hide’s codependency issues continue to plague him. I’m all for taxpayer funded love Rodders, but paying for your codependency problem ain’t my bag baby. You know why I’m not keen to fund your co-dependency complex Rodney? It’s not just the hypocrisy of you calling for an end to a perk that you use, it’s not that. It’s the fact that we went from a $2 billion surplus last year to a $10 billion deficit this year and that money you’re blowing on your girlfriends trip is symbolic of all those slashed public services that NZers facing much more desperate life problems than missing their girlfriend for 10 days will have to face.

But this pales in comparison when you look at what Rodders had to say about how easy it is for him to get policy through Cabinet. Forget saying Key doesn’t do anything (that’s fairly apparent) it was this quote that really proves the tail owns the dog…

He was also amazed at how much he could get through Cabinet, because "you turn up with your papers" and "they are too busy with their own stuff they're not bothered".

…National are not going to want the perception that a far right nutbar like Rodders is able to quietly slip the mechanisms of mass privatization for post 2011 into Cabinet while the others are bickering over their own fiefdoms. People who voted Labour in 2005 and National in 2008 did so on vague change, not hard right economic policy as social policy.

Key could lose the big blue tent broad based strategy AND the crucial female vote if Rodders keeps pointing out the obvious.