University Media catch Chris Bishop out
The Bish has been selling his status as a renter to counter criticism of National’s plan to give Landlords the right to evict at will, however University Media have caught the Bish out…
National MP Tells Twitter Porky amid Rental Policy Debate
National Party housing spokesperson Chris Bishop has been pointing to his status as a renter to defend the party’s recently announced housing policy, but his claims don’t seem to paint the full picture.
When asked if he was renting off a family member on Twitter, Bishop claimed he was not.
“Are you renting off yourself, a family member or a trust or company you have an interest in?” a Twitter user asked. Bishop responded “no on all counts”.
Despite this, after checking publicly available property records, Salient can confirm that the property is owned by his in-laws.
Green MP Julie Anne Genter was seemingly aware of the circumstances, attempting to call Bishop out by asking “is the house that you are renting owned by your inlaws?” on the same Twitter thread, but Bishop did not respond.
When questioned by Salient, Bishop confirmed his in-laws do, in fact, own the home. “My wife’s parents own the rental property that we have been renting,” he said.
Despite this, Bishop maintains he wasn’t fibbing by denying the in-laws are his family members. “That’s not my family, […] I’m not related to them, only by marriage,” Bishop said.
…firstly, excellent journalism by Salient, secondly, oh come on Bish!
Pretending he isn’t renting off family because the family are in-laws is the sort of answer from politicians that voters despise!
He’s only playing up his status as a renter to try and calm down the outrage renters feel towards his Party’s desire to give Landlords the power of feudal lords!
Look how far he is prepared to conceal the truth to protect such an egregious policy.
He’s prepared to pretend his in-laws aren’t family to protect the right to throw renters onto the street, I mean you can’t claim the Bish ain’t prepared to say anything to give Landlords unrestrained power, he’s a true Stormtrooper for the cause!
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lol. Feudal lords. Love your outrage
Bad bad bad. But this is the politician whose own father-on-wheels penned a newspaper column complaining about not being able to locate a hot sausage roll when other people’s families are struggling to afford to buy decent food for their young growing children.
Gee a right leaning politician lying – who’d have thought it?
So his Mother n Law is his landlord. They are probably tougher than normal landlords.
Marco+Battler Mother-in law his landlord ? Has she transgendered into a male then? If so, he needs to waka jump into the Greens or Labour, they’re the female hating trans-hugging parties.
I’m not sure how appropriate it is to be worrying about the semantics of this, when NZ sounds like it’s having a Grenfell moment with the hostel fire that has killed at least 6 people in Wellington – this is more of an issue with housing and the intensification drive that means more high risk people are living together and suffer when things go wrong. It sounds like it may have been lit deliberately – because the fire alarms were constantly going off, people did not vacate.
NZ is not going in the right direction for renting with Labour and Greens and we are getting people killed over an ideology that is expensive, not safe and not working out. What worked better was the systems we had before the ideologically driven rental reforms – it was cheaper to renters, safer for renters and landlords who are also being murdered by their tenants, and significantly less expensive for taxpayers.
Putting the Labeen managerial lens into battery style renting for huge business run $$$$ is not working out.
He’d better be nice to the wife and in-laws then…
He must resign for this lie!
If National MPs resigned for lying National, National will only he left with Shane Reti, oh wait?
A bit surprised he expected to get away with that. I’m sure he mentioned on his Fb page a few months ago that he and his wife and son were moving to stay with in-laws while a new house was being built. I guess most of his followers wouldn’t out him, however.
Its an election year. Expect myriad instances of this across the spectrum. PAR FOR THE COURSE. Guarantee, all parties have politicos doing this and more.
Fantail. Starting to wonder if somebody who declared themselves to be the biggest liar in the Antipodes might be the best person to vote for. That’s pretty much freedom of speech, and may be more confidence-inspiring than words from those claiming eg to be sources of truth – more the realm of infallible popes and dead John the Baptists, than of those purporting to represent all the rest of us.
I notice Bob the First has let this one go through to the keeper.
Because no matter how hard Blobby tries he can’t pin this story to Labour. He’s quite a sad little man actually, I feel sorry for him.
All in the family …
https://youtu.be/1jYDpAf4XLM
Why are people so surprised by Bishop telling more lies when he has been caught out before on TV making up shit about rent increases and the shortage of rentals, and he appears to have a habit of doing this. I don’t know how this man sleeps at night, but I do know Hutt Valley voters were smart enough to reject him at the last election and let’s hope they do it again this one.
Why are people so surprised by Bishop telling more lies when he has been caught out before on TV making up shit about rent increases and the shortage of rentals, and he appears to have a habit of doing this. I don’t know how this man sleeps at night, but I do know Hutt Valley voters were smart enough to reject him at the last election and let’s hope they do it again this one.
Why are people so surprised by Bishop telling more lies when he has been caught out before on TV making up shit about rent increases and the shortage of rentals, and he appears to have a habit of doing this. I don’t know how this man sleeps at night, but I do know Hutt Valley voters were smart enough to reject him at the last election and let’s hope they do it again this one.
Yes covid, a litany of lies from Chopper and the National party, the most deceitful in history by all measures. In fact they created a policy on lying. They call it the John Key policy.