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Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Mike Hosking: Labour's handling of Sharma saga has been atrocious


So we now see in the battle of cock ups that poor old Labour has been completely outplayed.

National have a mess, they hire a QC, and announce the inquiry. Job done.

Labour gaslight the bejesus out of the troublemaker, say they are having a meeting, hold a secret meeting the night before, deny the secret meeting, until the secret meeting has a photo taken and then "accidentally" sent to Gaurav Sharma as proof, at which point they have to confess there was a meeting, and it just happens Sharma was the only one not there.

And as for the “accidentally" released photo.

A screenshot is an accident, forwarding it to the bloke you are about to knife isn't an accident, it's deliberate. It's called a leak.

Which means the caucus isn't as tight as the Prime Minister would have us believe. In fact, very little these days is the way the Prime Minister would have us believe.

In the grand scheme of things, they are the big losers here. Sharma, on balance, looks like the more innocent party and suspending him achieves nothing.

Suspending people is sensible if the person has made a mistake and wants to repent. I don't think Sharma wants to repent. Does he sound like a bloke who wants to repent?

This is bad enough, but it's made worse by the exposure of the Labour Party who made so much of the honest, transparent, and kindness nonsense that has blown up so badly in their faces.

They are Machiavellian, fundamentally dishonest, and about as shallow as a puddle.

The polls show it, led by their leader now at record lows in personal popularity.

All parties have trouble and a party with a large caucus was always going to have some kind of trouble, if not several episodes of trouble, in this three-year term.

But like all the other stuff they’ve cocked up from the economy, to Three Waters, to co-governance, the list is now bordering on endless, they have taken a rogue MP and made it a mile worse than it ever had to be, by yet again not understanding that honesty counts and transparency works.

Pretending you are something you are not will always get exposed.

Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings.

4 comments:

DeeM said...

And yet the latest Tax Payers Union Curia Poll, released today, shows Labour slightly up and National down 3%.
The Maori Party hold the balance of power - God help us. Even God's looking for a shoulder to cry on - that's how bad the Maori party are!

Admittedly, this poll ended just as the Sharma incident broke so the next poll will be interesting.

What this poll does tell us though is that Luxon is a very ineffective leader and is dropping consistently as preferred PM after his initial honeymoon period.
He's scared of saying anything contentious and is just way too touchy feely and woke for many with his co-governance leanings.
Unfortunately, the loss to National did not all go to ACT so our main opposition party are a millstone around a centre-right coalition. And, as we've known for years, many National voters are just too WET to vote ACT and would rather switch to Labour.

Phil said...

Dee,

The Maori Party want a separate Maori Parliament with $20 billion in annual funding. At least they are upfront, who would know what Labour are secretly plotting. Ardern controls most of the media, the electorate is apathetic in the extreme.

Dee said...

Phil
Being upfront doesn't make them any less extreme. And I'm absolutely certain that $20 billion will be just a starting point. They'll demand more when their system fails miserably but they'll blame it on everyone else because they have a streak of entitlement running through them a mile wide.

But credit where's it's due - as you say, Labour never announce their agenda, they enact it by stealth and with no mandate. Yet, 1 in 3 Kiwis still want to vote for them!!
Throw in the Greens who decide they don't want their male leader then can't find anyone else to run instead.

NZ politics is in a very bad way!!!

Kiwialan said...

Dee, 1 in 3 Kiwis will vote for the woke racists because they are totally ignorant of how Labour and their Maori caucus are destroying our democracy and freedoms. The mainstream paid off print media , Radio Red, the corrupt TV news departments , brainwashed wet behind the ears journalism graduates with zero knowledge etc, etc. The general public live in oblivion to what is happening around them and will do so until Luxon and other prominent politicians aquire the guts that David Seymour has to properly challenge the racist policies. Kiwialan.