Labour’s Jan Tinetti’s attempt to criticise the Government’s free school lunch programme has backfired after she laid into a burger made when her party was in power.
An online video, shared to Labour and Tinetti’s Instagram accounts, featured several pictures of school lunches that Tinetti labelled as “disgraceful”. The post has since been removed.
“I think that this is a hamburger. I am not certain, but I am thinking that’s what it is,” she said, superimposed over an image of a burger.
That image, however, is more than a couple of years old, meaning it predates the changes the current Government made to the school lunch programme. It featured in a Herald story in 2022 in which a mother complained about how “disgusting” the lunch was.
Labour was in Government in 2022 when that picture was shared, with Chris Hipkins the Education Minister at the time. Tinetti, who is based in Tauranga, was the Associate Education Minister.
Of the many beautiful own goals of recent times, this might be the most beautiful!
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders.
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