A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude - Oscar Wilde
Being rude to bar staff, waiters and shop assistants is not OK. Aaron Gilmore, who has never been in the limelight for good reasons, has destroyed his career as an MP. This would be a reason for celebrating if I was sure that there were not a hundred others waiting to replace him.
I'd like to see him stay in parliament, as a National MP, until the next election. The more damaged goods, like John Banks, that the government collects on the way to the next election, the better.
At a fundamental level it is clear enough what he has done wrong. But there are other things. He has shown the born-to-rule tory attitude that pervades National at present. The PM and his senior ministers have done an excellent job of hiding it (as opposed to destroying it) and they will be mightily upset that the most junior of their team, their most marginal MP, has undone their work.
Verlaines - Some Disenchanted Evening, 1990
