If it were anyone else repeatedly breaking lockdown rules, they’d be charged with breaches but because it is the Labour Party, all we hear is that the Prime Minister is “disappointed”.
Labour Party advertising delivered in breach of lockdown restrictions has appeared in the Prime Minister’s own Auckland electorate.
It is the fourth such delivery of party material reported to Stuff during lockdown restrictions.
Quizzed about the lockdown deliveries at Thursday’s press conference, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern expressed disappointment and laid the blame with volunteers who were going against party instructions.
“It’s really disappointing, of course we don’t want this situation,” she said.
“We want everyone to be modelling exactly what we need at level 4.”
The latest delivery to emerge happened in Dorset St, Westmere, in the Mt Albert electorate held by Ardern.
It follows reports of similar deliveries in Christchurch, Tauranga and in Auckland’s Ellerslie.
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Once is a mistake. Twice is sloppy, three times is deliberate. Four times is wilful disobedience.
Oh well, if it’s good enough for the Labour Party to flout the rules then it is good enough for everyone else. The example has now been set.
Or…we could mount a private prosecution of the authoriser (Jacinda Ardern) and the head of Parliamentary Services as it has the Parliamentary Crest on it.
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