Being male has cost him and many other National MPs a high slot on their party list, outgoing Dunedin list MP Michael Woodhouse believes.
On his first interview since quitting his party’s list, National’s Dunedin candidate said he feared that New Zealand’s sixth-largest city was being abandoned by his party, and that the way National was behaving meant it was shedding party votes to Act New Zealand.
“Firstly, there was a contest between diversity and experience and in my case, diversity won,” Woodhouse told the Otago Daily Times when asked about why he was given such a low position on National’s list.
“Secondly, I think that there was a bit of naivety about using the list rankings as a process to send messages, and thirdly I think that there were other factors at play working against me that I won’t elaborate on but I wasn’t part of the caucus club, that’s for sure. I have a habit of saying things without fear or favour.”
He’s tried to walk this back and has claimed the media put words in his mouth, he is saying the media have made him sound like a ‘toy-throwing misogynist‘, which is funny because the media are only framing it that way because that’s how his tantrum is coming across.
Sure National have a problem with diversity, yes they have put a lot of new female candidates up, yes they need to reach out to more women voters, but that’s not why Woodhouse was demoted, he was demoted because he’s a clown!
This is the bloke remember who tried to paint Labour’s Covid response as incompetent by claiming homeless people were manipulating Covid quarantine by sneaking into 5 star hotels.
He never proved this claim, and it was never really clear why he was spreading it in the first place.
How cares if Homeless people were managing to get 5 star hotel accommodation, why shit on the homeless getting a lucky break?
It was as if Woodhouse was personally offended that a homeless person slept in a room he might one day use.
It was a weird and stupid thing to claim.
Woodhouse got a low list ranking, not because of his penis, but because he’s a dick.
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Woodhouse’s ego got the better of him.
After being a high profiler of the failed Key government, the majority of which MP’s were last seen scuttling, Woodhouse clung on thinking he was bigger than Texas. Oh how the mighty have fallen. Woodhouse could be heard using Aaron Gilmores quote to Luxon…”don’t you know who I am “!
Great loss to the Parliamentary rugby team. A fine half back.
& One of the few Mps to ask probing questions of the beltway professional mangerial class. Question s they don’t like.
Not a great loss at all and when he was an MP he failed to answer the hard questions he didn’t like.
And Mark Mitchell isn’t? Chris Bishop? It seems being a dick is not a disqualification. Interesting though that 15 years experience goes out the door. All this shit about “wokeness”, is all Labour is just garbage. As Ron Burgundy claimed Diversity is “an old, old wooden ship used during the civil war era”
Woodhouse was a mediocre minister who always managed to look smarmy achieving Buggar all.
Shutting him out is a good sign the Nats know how to clear out dead wood.
Keepcalmcarryon. As a woman, I found his toilet seat antics offensive, but worse, it was very puerile adolescent behaviour, and that’s more the prerogative of the Green girls. He was awful.
Look he should have been sacked for wearing that shirt alone!
Charles. A truly shocking shirt of the sort which ageing males wear to try and look youthful, but there’s no need to behave like a teenage boy as well.
Haha Hollyhock.
Always struck me as D*ck IMHO
Of course it has nothing to do with this politician alienating himself from the caucus for at least the last two years
Wood louse crawling back under a rotten log
Isn’t this the political demise of a man who has been treated so well since 2008, fifteen years ago now, that he has become very used to it? He has been given a high ranking for many of these years despite unsuccessfully contesting his electoral seat.
Yes Danny, in a nutshell he was never elected, he was always on the coattails of the party. He’s now playing the ” Don’t you know who I am ” trump card to which the answer is, no.
The ACT party survived similarly because of the coattails of the National party. If National have any issues with ACT taking their votes well they only have themselves to blame.
Bye, bye, Mr Woodhouse, now looking a bit of a “homeless man” himself!
I sincerely hope National haven’t fallen under the thrall of the ‘diversity agenda’ like the left so thoroughly has, because we need the BEST people running the country regardless of the shape of their genitalia or bedroom antics.
Andrew. If Luxon has any smarts, he would realise that this person’s unsubstantiated homeless man claims, and his disgusting photoshopping a lady’s face onto a lavatory seat, were not behaviour befitting a future senior political figure. At least he’s white, and ergo easier to jettison.
By “the best” do you mean this male?
Labour had Mallard, National have Uffindell and Molen etc etc etc
White house, lesser than shithouse.
Other side, gona be leader, best left lip gloss, for the shallow care lips sayin.
Walks , with a angry superior gaite.
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