Compare Arena Williams sin to Chris Bishop’s sin

Labour MP Arena Williams defends tweet saying Government policy will mean father will ‘never choose between heating, health’

Labour MP Arena Williams claims she was never trying to suggest her father was forced to choose between heating and medicine with a tweet that’s caused a furore online and been fact-checked by Twitter.

So Arena’s sin was to promote a prescription free policy and connect it to her Father’s well being in the future.

The ‘furore’ is that her Father’s medical condition means he has a capped cost for prescriptions and he lives at her house.

Apparently this means Arena’s tweet celebrating the fact that her Dad won’t have to choose between poverty and inequality in some future scenario where she’s not having to look after him is a great crime against truth.

To manipulate Arena’s tweet into a malicious false telling is Judith Collins at her best.

Compare the outrage at Arena to the very mild coverage Chris Bishop received for claiming a Tenants Advocacy Group had told him that National’s policy to give Landlords the right to throw tenants out of their homes for no reason was going to help renters.

Reporters went looking for the Tenants Advocacy Group who had made this outrageous claim, and not one of them said it was them.

Bishop doubled down by claiming his Party’s policy to allow Landlords to kick out renters wasn’t bad because he himself was a renter.

Bish was then asked if he rented from family, he said no, turns out he does in fact rent it from his in-laws – his defence to that was ‘my in-laws aren’t blood relatives so they aren’t technically family’.

I know, I know, I know. Priceless.

I mean.

Come on.

How is it that Arena who was tweeting about her direct experience and her own hopes for the future with her sick Dad suddenly the greatest lie told in Christendom, yet the Bish not only can’t name the Tenancy Advocacy Group who privately sided with National’s pledge to bring back feudalism, but when challenged on using himself as a poster boy for the policy, managed to define ‘family’ with an atomic level factionalism that borders on the supernatural.

I mean there’s how many angels are dancing on the had of a needle and what electron Chris Bishop is renting from his own Atom level debates to be had, and the Bish is prepared to argue!

He’s like Jami Lee-Ross but not as quick.

I mean, I know he’s rated inside National as someone with great talent, but doesn’t that tell you how shallow a talent pool inside National it really is, if the Bish is rated?

I don’t know man. I think Chris’s sin is far more egregious than Arena’s and that the parks in difference are so far from each other, they aren’t actually comparable.

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