A Psychics Look Into Parliament next Tuesday.

As many of you will not be aware, all members of Parliament from all parties will be in the House next Tuesday to continue the business of the House for the new parliamentary session.

What will be of interest is the impending clash between Carmel Sepuloni (Labour) and the Honourable Nick Smith (National Minister of ACC) over the questions raised by Ms. Sepuloni in the House on the 14th April.  If you remember rightly, Tony Ryall (National) was standing in for Nick Smith and seemed quite riled (no pun intended - ok a small one :) ) by the questions being posed.

It's fairly obvious to me that Nick Smith has to answer the questions raised and this no doubt will cause a bit of a media frenzy whichever way it goes.  If Smith finds that Jansen abused his position  then he will be saying exactly that, and also the outcome.  If he sides with Jansen, then it's fair to say that Jansen will act accordingly and "Jax" will be held to account.  Or perhaps Smith stands by his man, BUT tells him to drop the court case and public apology and get back to doing what he is paid to do.  National has long been an advocate of the Old Boys Network (OBN) and it's fair to say that Jansen may fit into that category.

Or is he?  Did Jansen start work at ACC under Labour led government and is therefore on the outer as far as National's OBN goes?

Yes, there is a lot of intrigue ahead.  So far, as far as I am aware, Jansen hasn't had a court injunction issued for "Jax" to take down the offending blog.  So far it appears there has been no more Lawyer to Lawyer contact, so where does this place both parties?  We can't really speculate though suffice to say Open Question Time in the House on Monday will provide an answer.

My vote is Nick Smith and Government have been embarassed a little by Carmel Sepuloni's questions and they won't let this lie.  One thing for sure, national cannot afford to openly back Jansen's claims as that would also lay a burden on "Jax" and no citizen deserves that much power placed on them (though having said that, WINZ, CYFS, IRD and ACC have been known to deliver the full weight of parliamentary pressure on single citizens as they saw fit).



The psychic sees:

Sepuloni:  Has the Minister for ACC pondered my questions of the 14th and what is the outcome?

Smith:  I have, contrary to previous statements, investigated the issue and find that Doctor Jansen did indeed err in his judgement and has been asked to step down from ACC.

Sepuloni:  Does this mean that Dr Jansen will remove the court action and apologise to the blogger in question?

Smith:  Dr Jansen is now not employed by ACC or government in any form and can do what he wishes noting of course now that he is now unemployed and lost a $200,000 salary may think he has justification now to sue.

Speaker:  Next question, the Honourable Tony Ryall:

Ryall:  I just want to say I am riled by all this.

All Members of the House:  Raucous Laughter and hand clapping.

Speaker:  ORDER!!

"Jax":  Latte please.