What on earth are they doing?
Just when you couldn’t believe the National Party could implode any more than it has over the last month of vicious self-mutilation, they are now turning on their own Auckland central candidate???
Fitness photo of National Party candidate for Auckland Central circulating among party members
The National Party selection process in Auckland Central has taken a new twist, with a photo of one of the female candidates being circulated among party members.
The fitness photo of Nuwanthie Samarakone posing in a leotard was posted by the candidate on her Facebook page but removed when she sought the North Shore nomination in March.
A National Party member said “I must have received it at least eight times”, saying it had been circulating to members since the North Shore candidate selection.
In an overnight email to Auckland Central delegates, Samarakone hit out at the personal attacks.
“I understand that some delegates have been sent a photo of me while I was competing in the fitness realm a few years ago, making utterly false and defamatory claims about what that photo represents.
“I am always up front and transparent. Yes, I am committed to being fit and healthy, and am proud of the discipline I bring to my work and my personal life.
“I was a ballet dancer for 17 years under the Royal Academy of Dancing (UK) and retired hurt. Fitness, dance, hiking across our beautiful New Zealand walks and general well-being is a huge part of my life.
“I am disciplined, fit, resilient and train hard for the events in which I have participated. I proudly own all those experiences which have given me the strength, the resilience and the tough mindset to withstand the pressures of politics.
“However I have no tolerance for people who seek to bring down others through personal attacks, and who damage the integrity of the National Party in the process,” Samarakone said.
She pointed the finger at National Party members “from other electorates who are unhappy with the Auckland Central selection process and have decided to attack the reputation of successful nominees through misrepresentation and untruths”.
When contacted about the photo today, Samarakone said she was not allowed to comment to the media.
The pettiness and mean spiritedness that drive alphas whose focus is brutal success at any cost is the very DNA of the National Party. A toxic aspiration that blinds all else other than the win.
National bond out of mutual ambition, not the common good.
After a month of homicidal self harm, this is the cherry on top of a shit cake for National.
This candidate fiasco only destabilises National even further in the electorate and makes a Chloe Swarbrick upset a possibility.
Unbelievable!
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My wife and myself always look forward to getting up each morning to see what the next scandal will be to rock the National Party.
And they never fail to deliver another debacle.
Collins will never be the PM of NZ.
“However I have no tolerance for people who seek to bring down others through personal attacks, and who damage the integrity of the National Party in the process,” Samarakone said ”
She needs to get a grip on reality and realise the party she wants to represent operates exactly like that.
Ooh? Isn’t she a bit too coffee coloured?
Just asking for a friend.
…a Toffee coffee… like Soimon and Paula
….but not a Pinky porky piggy like Judith and Toddy … and Hoots ( now where is Hoots?)
Just been a cheeky darkie! Was when Train Wreck Boag tried to defend the Mad Butcher when he called the maori Maori wahine on Waiheke that Waiheke was a White Mans Island, Boag said,” shes hardly coffee coloured!” I wonder what Train Wreck Boag is doing now?
DennyPaoa,
Boag will be doing what she always does…..only anonymously deep undercover and off the radar. That’s the thing with latrine rodents. They don’t know how to be anything other than a latrine rodent. Chucky will be getting texts on her burner every day from a Boag burner.
imo Boag is better than the MAD Butcher…Waiheke is Maori wahine land…and Boag is a bit coffee coloured herself…as well as looking like a female Dracula
Indeed. Is this putative candidate aware of/comfortable with the reported value National places on people based on race (https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/368902/bridges-ross-comments-labelled-ugly-and-racist)??
“However I have no tolerance for people who seek to bring down others through personal attacks…”
Oh my dear God. WTF.
Clearly and without a shadow of a doubt, this aspiring National Party MP Ms Samarakone has never met, much less heard of the National Party leader Judith Collins, has she?
Wrong Team
Yes. And in the meantime helen clark wants the borders re opened.
RNZ
“NZ must consider opening borders – Gluckman, Clark, Fyfe”
‘Three influential New Zealand figures are urging the government to consider reopening the borders, which could see the country reframe its elimination strategy.’
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/420412/nz-must-consider-opening-borders-gluckman-clark-fyfe
The only influence clark has on me is my gag reflex.
As for the other two… I mean, really? Influential? Really? are you sure @ RogerNatZo ?
The rats are leaping from the sinking natzo/neoliberal dung barge while on fire as they eat each other alive.
Personally, privately I’m fucking loving this.
I’ve posted the link to this song before and it just keeps getting more and more relevant as time goes by.
Johnny Cash.
God’s Gonna Cut You Down
https://youtu.be/eJlN9jdQFSc
One last thing…
This is how influential Gluckman, Clark and Fyfe are. They’re so influential they have our only relevant news source entertaining such dangerous drivel while those three stooges are trying to convince us to ignore a grim reality becoming ever more grim by the hour to make a dollar. How Trumpian is that?
Opening AO/NZ’s borders in anyway!? Fuck that for a joke!
We have a global pandemic which is a novel virus doing dire and novel things in a dire and novel way. Lets keep our borders the fuck closed!
Ask any duck how tight its arse hole is then double it! Lets do a double-ducks-arse-hole lock down!?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/03/global-report-julys-terrible-toll-revealed-as-coronavirus-cases-double-every-six-weeks
It’s getting ever closer to when shit gets serious and we AO/NZ’ers are in a perfect position to survive and to survive well.
We have big scary oceans between us and the awful Australians to the West, while to the east, there’s nothing but ocean until you get to South America. That,s a fucking lot of ocean. Google Earth it. Is quite the sight.
The ONLY way we’re going to become re infected is if WE allow greedy morons fuck it up for us. We must NOT let that happen.
Lets face it? They’ve fucked it up enough for us as it is, long before c-19.
We’ve got food, we’ve got water, we’ve got shelter, we’ve got each other for cuddles. We’re ok.
Just don’t let the greedy loons with Big Ideas and piss poor logic fuck that up.
AS TDB have labelled it…..death cult capitalists.
I agree with your sentiments in the above !
Well said!
I often wonder what ever happened to the National Parties review into workplace bullying…
And then….Drama!!! Martyn the master of Schadenfreude.
Won’t make a difference though. Central Aucklanders will be reminded what left leaning governance can do to a once fine inner city, with hopeless planning and execution skills. A smaller version of how NZ Inc is managed basically. Slogans, chaos and cones rule the city. Once glorious Queens Street is fucked up and basically dying. The big rail idea is dead and many businesses are strangled to death because of it. Who wants to go to the city for a good time? Nobody.
And so, National will win that seat.
Given that the management of Auckland is determined by a corporate-friendly structure put in place by the NatACTS, it’s a bit rich to blame a one-term government who haven’t done any local government restructuring for Auckland’s woes.
Herman Shovel Ready:
> A smaller version of how NZ Inc is managed basically.
Agreed. But given the above, that’s hardly something that voting for a NatACT government is going to fix.
This is another reason why Goodfellow needs to go. Hell bent are the party apparatus on getting another person of color into parliament they are bending all the rules. This candidate was not voted for in North Shore and now has been carpetbagged into Auckland central. Hilariously she is having a meltdown because people are calling it for what it is.
And Bomber don’t be surprised if a certain Boag is still dipping her nasty oar into this selection process……
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