First, the youth camp and now the staffer. My, what a tangled sexual web we weave.
The predicament that both the administrative and political wings of the Labour party find themselves in is entirely of their own making. They are without peer as organisations which appear unable to see red flags when they are staring them in the face. I would have thought red would be the colour that was most recognisable to them. Patently not.
The president has already resigned; something he had but little option to do. In my opinion, he handled it the way he did to protect Ms Ardern and has paid the price. The next person to go should be the prime minister herself but, like the staffer in her office, she is too valuable to the Party. She’d no more fall on her sword than try and work out which way is up. This shows the total lack of a moral compass in the Labour party. It’s all about protecting their own and to hell with the WELL-BEING of the alleged victims.
Grant Robertson, answering a question in parliament on Wednesday afternoon, said the government was interested in the well-being of all New Zealanders. He forgot to add: unless you’re a victim of sexual assault. And he also has questions to answer as to what he knew and when.
We now know that those at the top in Ardern’s office, even those who have since left, knew about these allegations. That begs the question: if, as she says, she knew nothing, why wasn’t she told? To me that says she either has little respect from those working in her office or they quite rightly think she can’t handle these types of situations. She is now, conveniently, saying the whole thing is a party matter and the party has handled it very badly. So, once again, in spite of the staffer working in her office, she spews out the line it’s nothing to do with me.
The prime minister has said that she is going to take charge. She could and should have intervened at the outset with a view to finding out the truth of the allegations, but it appears she chose, out of her own self-interest, to do nothing. That says a lot about her own view of telling right from wrong. Jacinda is now getting a reputation for, at best, making bad decisions and, at worst, obfuscating the truth. She hasn’t the mental capacity to do the job. Obviously nothing was learnt nothing from the youth camp debacle.
The problem with this Labour-led coalition, (the word rabble springs to mind), is that they are either not capable of, or shy away from, taking ownership of and dealing with legislative matters. They prefer instead to set up working groups who can provide advice on how they should act. This method of governing serves only to highlight the ineptness of those supposedly in charge of what they like to call this country’s “wellbeing.”
Their ineptness is further highlighted by the fact that of the decisions they have taken on their own most have been disastrous. Oil and gas, Kiwibuild, child poverty, economic growth, the Regional Development Fund and Immigration to name but a few. The ministers in this government, like the prime minister, are clearly not up to the task in front of them. A look into their respective occupational backgrounds tells you why. This is a government that is woeful in the extreme.
It’s a sad state of affairs when we have a Labour party so devoid of talent that they have to act in a conniving and deceitful manner to hang onto a person who clearly should not be on their payroll. So devoid of talent are they that they have to hang onto a person whose job as prime minister is so clearly beyond her.
In a word – pitiful.