Winston was racist but it is Chloe who gets kicked out of Parliament???
Wait, WHAT?
Swarbrick kicked from House, accuses Speaker of ‘double standards’
Greens co-leader ChlΓΆe Swarbrick has been thrown out of Parliament’s debating chamber after accusing the Speaker of “double standards”, amid a row involving Winston Peters’ “racist” remark to a Chinese MP.
TVNZ
Oh this is very bad optics. This is almost as bad as handing out disproportionate punishments to the MΔori Party for doing the Haka.
Winston was the one who was racist yet it’s Chloe getting kicked out for noting the double standards?
Just to be clear.
So far Winston has been allowed to start a diplomatic fight with our largest trading partner to justify being racist to a Green MP and Chloe gets kicked out for highlighting that he won’t get punished???
Come on.
The dead rats we must all be forced to swallow to protect the ego of Winston is privilege at its most toxic.
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Chloe for PM
Chloe Swarbrick should be our PM. She has intellect, she has elegance and she has statespersonship. Luxon, has a bald head and a few rentals.
AI sez: ” Statespersonship (often called statesmanship) is the wise, ethical, and visionary skill of leading a nation or public group. A true statesperson looks out for future generations, rather than just focusing on the next election or personal power. “
Chloe is absolutely correct, accusing the Speaker of double standards, which he has β Brownlee is definitely not in control of parliament and gives preferential treatment to his fellow CoC politicians like Winston. Shame on this ugly lot for their bias, deceit, corruption and lies! Does this now mean that racism is ‘acceptable’ to Brownlee and his ilk, but the truth is not?
Jerry is from the colonist mentality ilk so what else are we to expect from jabba the hut .
” Oh this is very bad optics. This is almost as bad as handing out disproportionate punishments to the MΔori Party for doing the Haka ”
The New Zealand parliament and its authority only recognizes the governing government as the speaker is a political representative of the NZNP of who he is a member.
How can a political representative speaker be impartial with political sympathizes to their own colleagues and their donor interests which maligns our very sovereignty in the peoples ( plutocracy ) House.
You have to love that the mindless right wing shills at RNZ will consistently call any remotely morally sound politician interjecting against the lies of National/ACT/NZF ‘heckling’, while the heckling of Peter Thiel and Epstein’s buddies are simply ‘interjections’.
And I thought Chloe had been kicked out for accusing the speaker of not having impartiality, which I’m pretty sure is a breach of parliament’s rules.
She was kicked out for being correct.