He’s been guilty of troughing, of whining, of lack of self knowledge and now Chris Carter is guilty of stupidity:
MP Chris Carter has been suspended from the Labour Party after admitting to sending an anonymous letter claiming there is a plot to overthrow leader Phil Goff.
“His actions were stupid and disloyal,” Labour leader Phil Goff told a press conference this afternoon.
“There are no more chances. His future in the Labour Party is at an end.”
He was stupid to write the letter, more stupid to deliver it to parliament where security cameras operate and stupider still to address the letter by hand because Goff recognised his writing.
UPDATE: TV3 has a transcript of the letter:
Just a heads up on two issues you might find quite interesting in the Labour caucus.
1) Next Tuesday the union based MPs will challenge Goff’s position on the tradability of the 4th week of the month’s annual leave entitlement. There is general outrage that in an unguarded media moment Goff bucked the caucus and CTU position that the 4th week was not tradable for cash and essentially supported Key’s position. This issue has brought to a head the growing discontent in the caucus with both Goff’s leadership style and his poor polling. David Cunliffe has a big smile on his face and many in the caucus now expect a move against Goff and King before the election.
2) George Hawkins has been challenged in his electorate by a member of the Engineers union. Nominations close on 1 September. George is threatening a by-election and since the party is broke there is panic in the ranks over this prospect.
Homepaddock 
Its an easy way to get rid of the deadwood – have them commit political suicide.
Boy I bet Phil Goff is smiling
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What a donkey, in fact that is an insult to all donks
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@ Andrei – not so quick. Before today, speculation about Phil Goff’s leadership credentials was mostly sly innuendo on the blogs, amongst political junkies. Carter has made it a dinner-table subject. Both news bulletins have shown his statement at Auckland Airport where he undermines Goff.
I reckon he planned to get caught so that this would get traction, and quickly. He’s taking one for the team, as it were. Is it too far-fetched to think that he might have had a text or two just lately?
http://keepingstock.blogspot.com/2010/07/plot-thickens.html
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Don’t go for conspiracy theories IV2 –
HC has been PM for nine years, so its been there done that for her. She’s hobnobbing it as no 3 in the UN maybe with an eye to the big prize maybe not but domestic NZ politics for her is small potatoes, count on it.
No Chris Carter’s just a nasty piece of work.
Sulking because he has rightly been demoted and who hasn’t the cojones to take on Phil Goff face to face so he tried some underhand skullduggery which has blown up in his face.
Character will out and he has none.
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I disagree about Clark Andrei.
We know Carter has regular contact with her as evidenced by the fact he called her for advice after the first fracas 3 or 4 weeks ago. `Gingernuts’ whose name escapes me (the son she never had) is also known to be in regular contact.
Then we have Brian Edwards, Tizard, Street, Dyson and a few other sycophants both inside and outside of parliament. It is clear that even if she is not pulling the strings she is telling the puppeteer what to do and say.
Once a control freak, always a control freak.
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