JC: New Zealand’s Nasties: Labour and the Unions

The Labour Party and its union bosses have chosen, unsurprisingly, to show their nasty side. The unions are aware the politicians they support have turned out to be no more than a bunch of incompetent losers. Their answer is to attack. It’s not to attack in a constructive way, instead, like poisonous snakes, they spit their venom. They play the man, not the ball.

This is perfectly illustrated in Monday morning’s NZ Herald advertisement personally attacking Christopher Luxon. If the unions think this is the way to win an election they get zero out of 10 for intelligence. If I were a paid-up union member who intended to vote National I would be outraged that my money was being used in such a scurrilous way. If I were Chris Hipkins I would be outraged that my campaign had been hijacked in a way that did nothing more than bad-mouth my opponent.