Whaleoil exposes National MPs as source

The ugly face of the National Party has inadvertantly disclosed that National MPs are using him to spread its lies and smears.

He says:

MPs I have spoken to tell me that her favourite line is to describe herself as something other than a Labour supporter. It appears she makes a habit of trying to befriend National Party MPs.

So National MPs spread smears that are too sleazy for them to put their own fingerprints on by drooling all over Whaleoil.

John Key should disclose how many other unscrupulous smear campaigns he has begun by spewing his bile all through this slug.

There is no excuse for National using this ugly disgrace for its publicity.

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.

Why is National afraid of the progressives?

The Herald on Sunday and Kiwiblog have shall we say, a symbiotic relationship: Kiwiblog writes a silly post saying the Progressives shouldn't exist, the Herald repeats it, implying that Matt Robson - who hasn't been an MP for four years - is somehow using taxpayers money to campaign against National in Mt Albert. Then Kiwiblog writes up this absurdity as if it were somehow valid.

The point David Farrar tries to make is that there is some similarity between Jim Anderton and Alamein Kopu. But there is no comparison. Anderton won an electorate seat. he competed for votes, and won more than United Future who are in government with National. Not much sign of National's talking point author, Kiwiblog, attacking United Future.

If National now want to reverse the last election result, then Prog Blog would be enthusiastic (ahem), but realistically the people voted and for the next three years we have their verdict. That verdict returned Anderton and therefore the Progressive Party to parliament.

The raving of the right against the verdict of the people is very strange when it is the same verdict that made National government.

What Kiwiblog is trying to do say the result of the last election is somehow invalidated by the result of the next election, which hasn't even been held. This is ridiculous.