In a political world devoid of values, it’s good to see Labour Party candidate for the Mt Roskill by-election, Â Michael Wood, letting a National Party stooge know in no uncertain terms that slagging off his wife is NOT on the agenda…
“Ravinder, Parmjeet Parmar’s husband, made loud derogatory comments about my wife. I’m disappointed that Parmjeet Parmar’s campaign has stooped to such lows.
“After the debate I confronted Ravinder and robustly told him his language was unacceptable. I will not accept such derogatory comments being shouted about my wife in a public forum.
…Wood is an incredibly decent bloke and intelligent candidate who will speak reasonably with anyone on any issue. But slag off his wife or kids, and he ain’t going to let that sit.
Mt Roskill will be well served by a bloke with values like that.
The National Party have been lying about how seriously they are attempting to win this by election. Outwardly to the media they keep dampening down any possible chance of a victory, but privately are spending huge money to get as many pamphlets and posters up.
National are hoping that a closer result than expected will make them look stronger for 2017.
we need this guy in parliament he isn’t going to take crap from anyone.
especially troy scum.
Leave Troy alone, he’s ok… 😉
Ravinder Parmar, how do you enjoy your wife being “used” as a plaything for the National party?
Good question.
the video is out parmar is a proven lier
https://thestandard.org.nz/nat-allegations-about-michael-wood-a-pack-of-lies/
to accuse an innocent man of criminal assault cant go unanswered
parmar has to be made to answer for that
Absolutely correct Darth. A public apology should be imminent.
National dirty politics beginning to rear its ugly head head!
Good for Michael Wood sticking to his personal principles, challenging the slur against his wife by Ravinder Parmer, the National candidate’s husband.
Here’s an exercise for anyone who would relish seeing National utterly embarrassed in this by-election. Spend some time imaging you are the Troby-Crextor spindocters running the National campaigns, and thinking about how you might attempt to lure your opposition into scoring media own goals against the Labour candidate. Think carefully about all the divide and rule tactics you could use, and how you would get your opposition to fall for each one. Then, carefully diffuse all the landmines in your habits of political communication that would make you vulnerable to being used in this way.
Dirty Politics has roles that the opposition must play into for the dirty tricks to work. To avoid playing these roles, there’s a few things we all need to do. We need to do our own thinking, instead of letting social media attack mobs push us into taking sides in pre-prepared false binaries. We need to communicate more thoughtfully, with the aim of achieving mutual understanding, not petty point-scoring. Above all, we need to have respect for everyone involved in public debate as a fellow human being, *regardless* of how much we disagree with them about anything. Nobody changes their mind because of being insulted or labeled, and their genuine concerns trivialized.
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