Hoist and Dangling From Their Own Petard
It is hard to credit or comprehend the ethical environment that must now characterise the New Zealand Labour Party. Similar comments now may also be made about Winston Peters and his party and the Greens. It seems that moral hypocrisy is running through the vitals of left wing parties to such an extent that the ordinary bloke and blokesse are left shaking their heads--or, as their mates would say, "Gobsmacked".
We are not up to play with all the "in's and out's". So we will take our cue from Andrea Vance.
"The rot is very deep. [The] party is allergic to women." Those are powerful words from a former Beehive aide, appalled by how the Labour party has handled allegations of sexual assault by a staffer. Is it any wonder then, that some complainants turned to National's deputy leader Paula Bennett for help?
National's deputy leader is taking fire for relentlessly dogging Labour over their litany of failures. During general debate in the House, National Deputy Leader Paula Bennett said Jacinda Ardern's senior staff and senior minister Grant Robertson had known the seriousness of the allegations. She was approached by five desperate complainants, who'd been dismissed and ignored by their own party. . . .
Jacinda Ardern has pledged two - secret - inquiries. It's the bare minimum, and the cookie-cutter response to a PR crisis. But look past the PM's soothing platitudes, to the party's defensive behaviour over the last fortnight. It reveals MPs and members are in denial about how badly they wronged these young volunteers. Ardern, who chooses her words with care, dismissed the original media reporting, and interviews with complainants, as "speculation."
