Jon Johansson on Campbell Live this evening had a theory to compete with the one I illustrated 10 days ago.
To him H Clark is not joined at the hip to W Peters by the terrible fear of what he can disclose about her should she leave him to his fate. No, to Mr Johansson she is frozen because she is "wedded to the notion of natural justice".
So the woman who opined that the Waitara Police who shot Steven Wallace were racist, before she knew any of the circumstances (including that the officer who fired the shots was Maori), the woman who dumped Dover Samuels before the Police had even started their investigation, the woman who damned the Exclusive Brethren (known to her as the chinless scarf wearers) and trashed our electoral free speech to "stop their threat to democracy" is now merely displaying her indissoluble committment to natural justice and due process.
And in case you don’t buy that theory, Mr Johansson had another for TV 3’s audience. H Clark has simply developed an extraordinary friendship with Peters, which is in turn evidence of her "unbelievable adaptability" to use Mr Johansson’s words.
Ubelievable is right.
Try Occam’s Razor Mr Johansson. The simplest explanation is usually the best.
She is sticking by him because things will be worse for her if she does not.
Mr Williams is so familiar he can invite himself to Glenn’s yacht looking for more money in June this year, notwithstanding that infamous day when the PM repaid Glenn’s generosity to Labour by shunning him at the launch of his Auckland University business school endowment. Glenn has been an integral part of Labour’s plans for some time. It is inconceivable that his help to Peters was unknown to Clark. But even if we accept her pretence, it is unforgiveable not to test with Glenn directly Peter’s alleged denials on a matter so ethically important.
Mr Johansson should be asked to opine on the theory that Clark is sticking by W Peters because he will expose her complicity in breaching electoral finance law if she does not.
It is less fanciful than the postulated sudden conversion to "natural justice", or "ubelievable flexibility" in her choice of friends.
Swamped as we are with the writings/comments on this subject I’m sure I heard that Mr Peters asked Mr Glenn that the gift not be made public. Therefore it is obvious that he would continue to demign his knowledge of it when other sources revealed it. But it does seem to me a horrible twisted mess primarilly of the Labour Party rather than NZF who to a degree are the innocent party. And Labour go on about ‘secret agendas’ Geezz!