When Sean Plunket asked Shane Jones if he’d been watching pornographic movies and charging it to the taxpayer he said he couldn’t remember.
That sounded like an admission of guilt to me and belatedly he’s come clean:
I’m a red blooded adult, it shouldn’t have happened, it has happened, it doesn’t make me feel particularly worthy but I’m not going to hide from it.”
Since when has being red blooded been an excuse to watch pornographic movies and charge it to the taxpayer?
The continuing unveiling of misuse of credit cards by ministers past and present reflects poorly on them all, but using the card for porn paints a particularly nasty picture.
Homepaddock 
I wonder how much is still to come. This afternoon he denied being a sex maniac. Will tomorrow bring the revelation of call girls?
His leadership aspirations are shot. How much more will it take to force his resignation as an MP?
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Dear lord, enthusiastic self-abusers, boozers and overeaters, all united across party lines by their sense of entitlement. What did we do to get such venal politicians?
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Half the nation voted for them, that’s what. Ignorance is bliss, and Kiwis are on the whole very politically stupid. Labour will still get back in one day, look how popular the deaf and Leftist Key government still is.
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I don’t have an issue with him watching porn movies, but I do have issue with his apparent belief that it was appropriate to charge it to his ministerial card.
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So he lied to Barry Soper when he told him:
`I am a movie buff but not into buff movies’
as I heard him say just after the 7am news bulletin.
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I tried to put this on Keeping Stock but he has some fandangled new system I cannot work out so I ask the question here as I also have at No Minister and on Red Alert:
Did H2 have a credit card and if so will it be subject to the same scrutiny and disclosure?
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Am I just too young and liberal, because I dont think watching porn equates to being a sex maniac.
The morality of watching porn doesn’t concern me, but the poor political judgement does – who on earth would put personal expenses of any kind on a minsterial card? But by the same token, I also object to other personal expenses being on ministerial cards – and neither party is exempt from that. People are quite capable of either paying with their own money or exercising some restraint.
I am glad the PM has taken steps to make the reporting of ministerial spending more transparent.
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PDM – I think a chief of staff would have a card. Some of the records already made public were for staff cards so H2’s would be open to scurtiny.
G – it doesn’t equate to being a sex maniac but it’s definitely not something the public should pay for.
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According to Mallard she probably had one connected to Clarks card. I trust thet is getting plenty of scrutiny.
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