We currently have a government that has preached about how they want to focus on kindness and said they want to be caring and thoughtful to the people of New Zealand.
But what did we see in Wellington yesterday?
The speaker of the house instructing officials to turn on the sprinklers in the parliamentary lawns and leave them on all night to attempt to make the protesters camped on the lawns uncomfortable, in the hope that it may force them to evacuate the grounds of parliament.
Whether we support or oppose the protesters views, this certainly is not showing a kind or caring government.
Yet we shouldn’t really have expected much better from the government and Trevor Mallard in particular given their recent history.
The government has shown little in the way of kindness to the farming sector, allowed house prices to rise to a point where home ownership is virtually unobtainable for the young, introduced race based decision making which has trashed our democratic rights as citizens of New Zealand, introduced hidden agendas even though they have tried to deny this fact and presided over one of the worst declines in our standards of living over recent memory.
The Speaker of the House Mr Trevor Mallard has also shown by his recent actions that I believe he does not understand what kindness, caring and thoughtfulness mean. His recent scurrilous accusations against a parliamentary staffer couldn’t get an apology even after he admitted that he knew they were false but elected to carry on with court action in relation to this matter which then ended up costing the taxpayers in excess of $300,000 to defend.
If there was any tiny bit of kindness, caring or thoughtfulness in this government, they would have required Mr Mallard to repay the taxpayers money, given that he admitted he knew he was in the wrong. In fact he should have been asked to resign from the Speaker of the House position at the very least if not resign as an MP.
His decision to ask that the sprinklers be turned on and left on overnight is nothing more than further evidence of a lack of any kindness on the part of this government and Mr. Mallard; Maybe just another case of a Mallard playing in a wetland.
Andy Loader