Well done! She'll be great in that role :-)

all together now....

...."hey hey the witch is gone"

It is quite disgusting how New Zealand's former senior politicians are shoe-horned into high-paying public service jobs when they decide it is time to quit Parliament.

Our senior politicians - indeed, even back benchers -earn more money and receive more perks while employed in Parliament than most New Zealanders could ever dream of obtaining, but that is not enough for these greedies.

It is not as if these politicians cease to cost the taxpayer money when they retire from Parliament, as they continue to receive lifelong golden handshakes in the form of taxpayer-funded perks, pensions and privileges.

To expect more is just bludging, but then after a time spent in Parliament an entitlement mentality sets in.

At least Clark gets sent out of the country and the UN can pick up her tab for that, but to give Cullen a local SOE job is just outrageous.

He has lived the high life on the taxpayer's tab for long enough.

If the National-led government wants to bring back British class system honours (no doubt expecting to pick plenty up for its own members as time goes by - for example, Sir John Key, a suitable bauble for a man who has everything - at least the quid pro quo should be that the New Zealand taxpayer's burden for supporting ex-politicians put out to pasture should be kept to the absolute minimum.

If National wants to walk the talk about cutting waste of public funds, then it should call a halt to finding ex-politicians public service jobs.

Our politicians have no place preaching moral values to New zealanders when they treat their Parliamentary exit as an excuse to suck further on the taxpayer's teat.

They are no better than glorified welfare bludgers in that capacity.

So they finally found a suitable paddock for the old horse to see it's days out.

How sad - but I agree they deserve each other.

It is wise to promote somebody like Clark to such a corrupt body as the UN - she knows how it works.

Well she stuffed NZ, now she is going to try & stuff the world. Mind you the UN is such a corrupt and inept body controlled by all the loser nations, what can she really do!!!

It is unbelievable how small minded and ignorant some NZers are. It is thanks to Michael Cullen and his conservate monitoring of our finances over the last years that we are in a relatively enviable position compared to the rest of the OCED. Please give credit where credit is due and refrain from ignorant bias.

Well she's got what she worked for these last 9 years.Now it's the rest of NZ who will have to deal with damage.Every loopy UN resolution that we slavishly signed up to and all the PC crap that was foisted upon us, all to speed Helen's career and fill out the CV.
I suspect we may never be entirely rid of it, which is unforgivable.
Helen, you deserve to be racked with guilt and plagued by nightmares for what you've done..

What a pair: Helen, Mother of the great Kiwi migration and Michael, Father of the low-wage economy

The Queen of passing the buck - The teflon witch - she'll do great with the UN

to even suggest Cullen as a chair of one of the taxpayer's investments, given his record with the Fiscal Responsibility Act would be an indictment of the government appointment process.

One hopes that Prime Minister Key will read the articles on Cullen and the allegations in terms of the Fiscal Responsibility Act. (do a search for them on this web site).

She and the UN were born for each other, both about as much use as tits on a bull, thank goodness we are exporting the Socialist, hope she takes a case full of others with her,and on a one way ticket,does that mean she forgoes her perks, if she lives and works off shore, like eveyone else??

Cheers.
Wills.

I think Helen Clark will do an amazing job for the UN. Her motivation, integrity, intelligence and the fact she is a genuinely caring person who applies herself with passion and determination to what she does will put her in good steed for this role. I feel very proud that a New Zealander of this calibre will be contributing at this level and maaking a positive differnce to peoples lives.

Peter must be a political novice or completely wet behind the ears. Helen appointed Jim Bolger NZ Ambassador to USA from the other side of the house.

Clark's appointment to the UN is not a good move by any stretch of the imagination. She would have been better kept at home, bound in prison for her unconstitutional offences against the land, than being shuffled off to a corrupt but powerful international body to continue to propagate her ideological damage. Now other peoples and nations stand to suffer just as we did under her emergent form of socialist tyrannism and destructive anti-democratism. When will some of you 'patriotic' commentators wake up, take your blinkers off, and think long term forward but with a rear mirror view to the lessons of history!! I agree with john Galt above, "New Zealand could have done better". And if NZ really wants to be the 'world leader' Clark 'set us up' to be, we would have done better to keep her right off the international stage, for the sake of the rest of this planet's peoples.

I cannot believe the small minded nonense that has been written about Helen Clark. New Zealand has come through this global economic crisis in a better position than the majority of coutries in the world and that is wholly and soley due to the stewardship of Helen and Michael Cullen. She really does deserve this position with the UN and I am sure that Helen will not be backward in coming forward to give the UN the shakeup it deserves. Go Helen. You are a credit to New Zealand.

WELL DONE HELEN CLARK..