Heather Duplicity Allan damns women with faint praise in attack on Chippy
Heather du Plessis-Allan wants readers to believe women voters will instinctively side against Chris Hipkins in the fallout from Jade Paul’s public allegations. But that reading says more about elite media assumptions than it does about how ordinary women, mothers and men are likely to interpret a deeply personal family matter dragged into the political arena.
Right wing ZB troll, Heather Duplicity Allan, damns women with faint praise with her attack on Chippy:
His problem is women voters in particular. There are enough women who’ve themselves been through messy divorces and squabbled about money – or watched their mums, sisters or friends do it – that it’s safe to assume some will feel sympathy for Paul’s version of events.
Heather du Plessis-Allan misreads women voters
…actually Heather, I think women are shocked that Jade would make such a desperate and political attack on Chippy despite her children.
I think many mothers will look at her behaviour and its negative impact on her children and judge her harshly for airing dirty laundry in public.
Labour relies on the female vote. 35% of women support Labour compared to only 25% of men, according to this month’s Roy Morgan poll.
Again, I think she’s wrong.
Jade Paul’s language makes this look political
Watching Chippy fall foul of the ‘B-E-L-I-E-V-E all Women’ dogma and choking up as these allegations were made could actually win back men who had previously been alienated by these very same tactics by woke middle class activists.
I think the vast, vast, vast majority would have felt sympathy for Chippy.
Jade’s language tells you everything you need to know:
“So many women are hurt by high profile men who just do what they want with no consequences”.
“We get told all of the time that if we speak out then our lives will be ruined, our kids will be impacted.
“We get labeled as ‘crazy’ or defamatory when we tell the truth.
“Today I have had enough.”
…this is highly political and devoid of any sense of a parent’s obligation to protect their children.
That is not the language of a parent wanting the best for their children, those are the politicised words of weaponised allegation culture.
I think Chippy’s social media character assassination could oddly help Labour with some male voters and I don’t think most mothers will reward Jade the way Heather is claiming.
If Heather du Plessis-Allan thinks this saga automatically hurts Hipkins with women, she may be projecting elite political expectations onto a public that is far more sceptical of weaponised personal allegations than the pundit class understands. If anything, the cruelty of turning family pain into campaign ammunition may generate sympathy for Chippy well beyond Labour’s traditional base.
She and her hubby are missing their Friday night parliament drinks with John Key.
Yes I agree, Jade Paul seems to be muddy the waters with her weird personal comments that just seem twisted coming out now. Does the fact she works for Casey Costello of NZF have anything to do with it? And obviously this won’t be great for the kids. Why does she feel compelled to spill the beans now and make a spurious connection to Labour policies to what she claims she went through at the hands of the wicked, cruel and lying Chippy. Not great! Doing this seems like vindictive and morally bankrupt. Sad to see Chippy cry about his kids. And IF this was a ploy to make Luxon the better choice, it has backfired. It has just made Chippy look more human.
She gave no thought to the children, just herself and the infamy.