The National party has gone all conspiracy theory regarding the break-in at their Auckland Regional office. It is quite sad seeing their troll army spreading the conspiracy theory that nefarious political operatives are involved in the nicking of their laptops. What is sadder, is seeing low level back bench government MPs taking cheap shots as well:
Greg O’Connor is a decent chap and I suspect his age has defeated him here with social media. If it were Trevor Mallard of days of old he would have said it isn’t the “chinks” who did the break-in because Simon Bridges gives them everything they want.
The National Party suspects dirty politics are at play after laptops were stolen from its headquarters, but a business next door was victim to the exact same crime a couple of months ago.
An employee of Brunton New Zealand – an accounting software company – told RNZ the Auckland business had several laptops stolen late last year in similar circumstances.
Both Brunton New Zealand and the National Party headquarters have offices on the busy Great South Road in Greenlane.
The two buildings side-by-side are separated by a driveway and have clear signage advertising their offices from the road.
Now both have had three laptops stolen after somebody also jimmied a window open to get entry to National’s offices on Sunday night.
The party’s deputy leader Paula Bennett said the fact it was an election year couldn’t be ignored.
“It’s incredibly concerning and I’ve got to say it looks pretty sinister and suspicious and not a good start to an election year where we’d rather be talking about the issues that affect New Zealanders, but it seems others have other ideas.”
But a woman who works for Brunton New Zealand isn’t convinced and told the party so.
“I did tell them, I told the guy at the National office, I said ‘well we had the same thing happen to us a few months ago’,” she said.
I don’t believe there is anything sinister here. Laptops are the go-to item for stealing, they are light, easy to carry and quickly sold for dirty cash. If the National party had anything on those laptops that could be useful to political opponents then that just marks them as stupid.
Labour has commented via Megan Woods:
The Labour Party’s campaign chair Megan Woods didn’t wanted to be interviewed but said in a statement “if it were found to be politically motivated it would be highly concerning and totally unacceptable”.
She said, “that’s not how politics is done in New Zealand”.
Senior Labour MP and Trade Minister David Parker highly doubted it was politically driven.
“I’m quite sure there will have been no involvement from some of the main political parties of which I’m aware.
“I’d be very surprised if there was anything gone wrong there but I suppose it’s always possible, as they found in the United States at times,” Parker said.
“I can only really speak for the party of which I’m a part and I’m sure we would have no part in it.”
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I have to agree with her there, much and all that it made me a little bit sick in my mouth to do so.
But she is right, stealing laptops is not how politics is done in New Zealand. How it is usually done is someone hacks National party figures or independent journalists and then fences the stuff to Nicky Hager who drops a book close to the election.
Expect a book this year. Word is that Hager and his minions are busily seeking out people for wrong-think so they can accuse them of harbouring white supremacist ideas. As is usual for his books it will be highly subjective. The gutless coward won’t talk to any of his targets and a complicit media will jointly smear all and sundry. That’s how politics from the left is handled. Not for them jimmying open windows in the dead of night. One suspects that Nicky Hager will have an air-tight alibi for the night in question. He was probably sitting at home pecking away by beeswax candle on his trusty manual Remington typewriter while he played old classical 45 records on a windup phonograph.
National for their part needs to abandon the conspiracy theories and actually find something to show voters that they are not a bunch of muppets and are ready to govern again. Subscribing to sinister conspiracy theories just shows that they are still prone to muppetry, but when you’ve got nothing else I guess it’s what you do.
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