Winston’s epic fail using Gang friction to stir up hate is Winnie & the media at its worst
Mongrel Mob hit back at Winston Peters over Northland claims
A Mongrel Mob leader accused of helping a Covid-positive sex worker obtain documentation to travel to Northland has lashed out at the allegations and threatened legal action.
In an interview with Te Ao Māori News this afternoon, Hawke’s Bay Mongrel Mob leader Harry Tam says the claims levelled by former Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters are not true.
“If Winston said it, he needs to prove it… If he’s not going to apologise, we will need to look at legal action,” Tam said.
Peters appeared on TV3’s Newshub on Saturday morning levelling the allegations which had been circulating on social media and encrypted messaging app ‘WhatsApp’ on Friday night.
“This person came here with a gang member assigned essential worker status, falsified the reason she was coming,” Peters said.
“[She] engaged with people at a hotel in Whangārei… and went to a marae up North which hid her from the public and, dare I say it, the police. The police got a warrant to arrest her.”
Peters claimed the Government found out about the situation “days and days ago”.
“How he got up North, that is very difficult to understand in terms of the permit system, but he brought in, under false premises, this woman with him. The rest, sadly, is catastrophic,” Peters said.
Tam told Te Ao Māori News that Peters was off the mark, while he had travelled to Tāmaki under a government exemption to support efforts to get gang members vaccinated, he travelled alone and had never been to Northland since arriving in Auckland.
It was all go there for 30seconds wasn’t it folks?
Right wing trolls on social media started bombarding anyone connected to the media on Friday that Gang Leader Harry Tam had toured the North Island with a Covid infected sex worker.
I was being privately messaged this crap and we even had some trying to post this garbage on the site.
Then yesterday Winston comes out and makes the allegation on The Nation.
The right wing talking points are that this is Labour pandering to gangs. That Labour are soft on crime while harsh on the rest of us. Jacinda was probably getting a cut from a local meth house.
So what actually happened?
The whole thing is bullshit! Harry Tam never went to any of these places! He’s been invited to Auckland in an attempt to get the entire regions gangs pushing and promoting vaccinations!
We have seen elsewhere that Covid can spread through the criminal underworld, if we are able to vaccinate this transmission point then the sprint to 90% vaccinations we are currently on is possible.
Instead of a smart public health campaign, what is Winston and the media doing?
Spreading lies and misinformation to anger and frighten people.
The Government have seen the CCTV footage of this woman on her tiki tour and Harry is not in anyone of them! How can Harry Tam and this woman have toured around the North Island and Harry isn’t in any single CCTV photo???
This is Winston at his divisive worst and our media at its most fake news.
For the love of Christ you fucks! This is a national health emergency and we are teetering on the precipice of a full blown pandemic erupting through our community over summer! Delta is too transmittable to keep out and it will become endemic, thanks to Labour’s leadership we have the space and time to sprint to 90% vaccination.
What the Government are trying to do by working with the gangs who are spreading Covid is vaccinate so this source of transmission stops!
You don’t deny a gang member a condom to prevent AIDS just because they are a gang member!!!
This is the Government doing the best they can to prevent a public health emergency and all Winston, the right and the media can do is lie, spread misinformation and attempt to turn you all against one another!
Some of our own citizens are more malicious than the bloody virus!
Grow the fuck up! No one likes organised crime, but this is a public health emergency you clowns, you need these people to cooperate if we are going to be safe!!!
Are you seriously telling me your hate of gangs is bigger than public welfare during a pandemic?
Really?
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A Guardian article on NZ has it that ‘NZ opposition leaders struggle for relevance.’
Why the ‘nation’ saw retired Winston as relevant at all is a mystery. Why was he allowed to repeat lies that had been circulated by the right?
Desperate measures by Newshub and Winston.
It’s not a lie that Labour/Gov has been cosying up to gangs with the $200 “Koha” and the 2million grant to the mob or giving exemptions to gang leaders so they can keep their empires rolling along under the guise of suddenly being caring “essential workers”. it’s not a lie that gang numbers have nearly doubled and gun and knife crime has increased since hasty gun law and Labour softly softly no prison/short sentences/home detentions increase. Gangs have been breaking lockdown to keep drugs and money flowing from the franchises up to hq pad. Someone’s got to stand up to them. Long live Winnie.
Lot’s of misplaced hostility to Winnie and misrepresentations of him as racist. It’s not racist to despise gangs and criminals. Some of the vitriol from so called lefties making as if he’s some kind of Nazi lol. For an antiwokeist MB sure makes himself their bedfellow in his hatred of Winnie. Labor lefties accused NZF of holding Labour back, but what have they substantially done this term without him to blame?. Winnie’s just the favoured whipping boy scapegoat of sellout pseudolefties …never mind the fact that he’s been the one to stand up against Nat’s turn to neoliberalism, against corporate corruption and neoliberal globalism as well as being responsible for the helping hand to the aged poor that is the Super Goldcard.
Opposition parties have always “struggled for relevance” for obvious reasons. That aside, I’ve no idea why you think a highly partisan “news” outfit on the other side of the world has any great insight into our politics or that they’re worth sharing here.
It is a serious situation re the border breach but I am delighted Winston has stumbled yet again, and this time with no parliamentary privilege. His use by date was when Muldoon died.
Another court case coming up for Winston?
This is typical Winston Peters.
There’s a lot of anger here in Northland over the actions of this individual, the involvement of gangs or who (where seems a much bigger problem) her associates are is a bit of a side issue. Hopefully the truth will out. David Seymour has some questions lined up:
“ACT will be submitting Parliamentary Questions to get to the truth about this Northland outbreak. Here are some initial questions that the Minister will have to answer within five working days from Monday:
*Has Cabinet or the Minister for COVID-19 Response ever been briefed on the name, occupation, or criminal history of a person who tested positive for COVID-19 before?
*Has Harry Tam ever had an exemption that would allow him to visit Northland from Auckland, in spite of an Alert Level boundary?
*When did Govt learn the Northland case’s travel document was false?
*What information led the Govt to believe case’s travel document was false?
*Who provided the information that led the Govt to believe case’s travel document was false?
*What new information was Minister referring to in 630pm press conference, that led to Cabinet convening?
*What was the purpose of the travel pass issued to the Northland case?
*What information was Cabinet given about the Northland case on and in the week leading up to Friday 8 October?
*Did any officials attend Cabinet when it convened on Friday October 8, and if so who were they?
It’s a pretty rotten sort of irony for people getting unceremoniously dumped into lvl 3 lockdown to see the government being so attentive to the privacy of the antisocial criminal and her associate that got them there, all thanks to the government’s error in giving her an exemption.
Under these extraordinary circumstances it’s absurd to suppose that we, the locked-down, don’t deserve to know things that might help to preserve our health and communities. Winnie got one thing right: they know who the associate is. So why don’t we know? They could be anywhere, and likely infectious. The public needs to know. They stuffed it up, and it’s hard not to get the impression that the opacity surrounding the issue is more about saving face than public health or civil rights – a ‘nuh-uh’ to Winnie’s circus sideshow grandstanding just isn’t good enough. We heard about an ‘essential worker’ testing positive for days, when it was apparent that they knew the person was not, and there’s a credibility gap being created there where rumour and misinformation can fester.
Are they trying to make David Seymour look good? This is a gift …
Sorry but are you saying it was labour ministers that signed the exemption and not some official that looked at the paper work, which looked legit and said OK. Would like to know what the real process is.
Winnie playing to his audience again. It’s time for the Police to release CCTV footage so as the accomplice can be located and arrested.
Yep, it’ll all come out in the wash-up. The sooner the better.
Gray Supremacy
Seymour grandstanding. As usual.
I’ve been to the movie so can answer his questions easily.
“I reject the premise of the member’s question.”
Here is the news: As at Sunday 11.47 there is no “Northland outbreak.”
Back in the day, when there was a proper media, no professional news provider would have dared publishing the sort of bullshit gossip Peters regularly regurgitates in his endless quest for relevance. Harry Tam should sue Peters and every alleged news source that recycled the old has-been’s drivel. Peters seems to have forgotten that he no longer has the parliamentary protection against defamation which has served him so well in the past.
I could be wrong, But surely not even a professional could have that much sex?
And aren’t there any sex workers in Northland?
I suspect a completely different business model. Something beginning with P.
But so what? We have bigger fish to fry. We are in a major public health emergency. Lives are at stake. And $billions in economic harm.
These two women and all their contacts, should all be offered full immunity from prosecution and full gaurantee of privacy, in return for revealing themselves and their movements to the authorities.
We are told that our covid scanning Ap is fully walled off to protect our privacy, it doesn’t care if we were doing something ilicity like going out to buy a tinny. The same with these two women’s travel data. In return for full disclosure of all their movements and contacts, full imunity from prosecution and full gauranteed privacy, the same for all their clients.
How else are we going to cut off this possible underground chain of transmission?
To get the informatin we need, What’s the alternative? Sleep deprivation, 24 hr interrogation until they crack, withholding food as well as sleep, water boarding or some other torture technique.
Chris Trotter may be all in favour of using the stick. But we are better than that.
Who are they going to drag out next week? Roger Douglas> Jenny Shipley? Richard Prebble?
Getting John Key to opine about the economy and Winston Peters to give advice about racism, is like getting David Capill and Colin Craig to educate us about avoiding child sexual abuse.