Heather du Plessis-Allan: Should Trevor Mallard get rewarded for being a bad boy?

Well, well, well. Trevor gets rewarded for being a bad boy.
The PM's confirmed he’s resigning from the Speaker’s job later this year and will get a diplomatic posting in Europe.
Everyone knows he wants the Dublin posting so maybe he'll get the very thing he's so badly wanted for so many years.
Should he though?
Sure, it’s a relief for us to have him out of the Speaker’s role because it’s amazing that any one man can do it so badly.
I thought after calling an innocent man a rapist and then using taxpayer money to deal with it that it wasn’t possible to sink further.
But then he turned on the sprinklers and the Barry Manilow and entrenched the protest.
And then he allowed a former Deputy Prime Minister of this country to be trespassed from Parliamentary grounds.
And that’s not even mentioning the fortune he spent on constructing a children’s slide outside Parliament.
Sure, it's probably a relief for the PM because he is so out of hand she’s burning political capital protecting him all the time. And she no longer has the political capital to spare when the Nats are now outpolling Labour.
And when you've got only 17 percent of Kiwis in a recent poll saying Mallard is doing a good job, it gets hard for the PM to say he's doing a good job.
But do we want to reward an absolute disgrace of a Speaker with a diplomatic posting and everything that comes with it: the nice house, the limo, the pay, the flights, the high life?
Probably not. He doesn’t’ deserve it.
But this is how politics works and Jacinda’s a politician and she’s obviously happy to - just like Trevor with the rape allegation - use our money to make her problems go away.

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