Ugly face of the National Party

As we saw last week in the Richard Worth scandal, Whale Oil is now an enorsed spokesman for the National Party. And the ugly face of the National Party is trying to argue that the Progressives don't exist because we have been out campaigning for the Labour candidate in Mt Albert.

The irony of saying the Progressives don't exist is that Prog Blog just renewed financial membership this month. He couldn't be more wrong. The financial membership of the Progressives is probably the most up to date of any party. Can't speak for the whole country, but Prog Blog is very happy with membership in Auckland at least, which is well up on last year.  If National really wants an audit of financial members, bring it on.

The Progressives publicly endorsed the Labour candidate - because we made a central plank of the election campaign last year that Progressives would work closely with Labour, our priority is to elect good people to parliament, and we want to stop National doing more damage to our country. That was a decision the whole party participated in at our meetings.

Everyone of the people the ugly face of the National party references is a proud member of the Progressives. Not one has renounced it. They are proud to work closely with their Labour colleagues. They are proud to work hard to stop National.

What we are really seeing here is an ugly National Party that hates democracy. This is a national Party that can;t stand to see its opponents working together, because co-operation is anathema to National. And they are touchy because they are getting torn to pieces in Mt Albert.

Good job.