If you're an ex union stooge you can't breach the rules. But it's okay if you're an ex Labour MP. As JohnO and others keep saying Labour does hypocrisy like nobody else except the Greens :)
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300824979/steve-maharey-breached-impartiality-rule-but-will-keep-job-as-another-chair-faces-scrutiny
But wait there's more! Because one silly little girl didn't bother to read the rules...
"The deputy chairperson of the EQC and Fire and Emergency, Ruth Dyson says she hadn’t read the rules saying public service board members should act with political impartiality."
Besides which surely it's either political impartiality or it's not. Chippy seems to think there's a graduated scale. But guess anything to keep the left in positions of power they're not fit for...
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