The damage to the New Conservative signs occurred a few hours after the Newshub Nation hit job.
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The campaign billboards of Leighton Baker, party leader for the New Conservatives political party, have had swastikas painted on them.
From where I sit this is wholly the fault of Newshub Nation. The outrage was media-generated. Newshub Nation loaded the outrage gun and pointed it at New Conservatives and some low IQ individuals took it from there
Swastikas painted on New Conservative political campaign signs in West Auckland
Swastikas have been painted on several election signs for a New Conservative Party candidate in West Auckland.
The signs, promoting party leader Leighton Baker, were vandalised on the weekend, with two swastika symbols painted on four of the six signs, and one swastika on the remaining two.
The Nazi symbol appears to have been spray painted onto the signs using a template.
The party’s election boards, near the Avondale Racecourse, were put up on Saturday and appear to be the only ones vandalised.
[…] “We have vandalism on our signs all the time, some cut out, faces drawn on them, these things happen all the time.”
He said information about the party in the news recently which painted them as a far-right extremist party may have something to do with the swastikas.
“These are obviously people that don’t respect people’s stuff and vandalise other things. It is sad and we don’t know what their motivation is.”
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