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Speaker 1: I think we might have the first significant own goal of the election campaign. It's the mongrel mob picture. Now, if you haven't caught up on this, you should have a look at it. It's blown up online. Photos have emerged of a group of Māori Party and Green Party MPs and candidates meeting with the mongrel mob at one of their gang pads. And in the photos, you've got Hana Rawhiti Maipi Clark of the Māori Party posing with her arms around a couple of mongrel mob members. One of them is, of course, Harry Tam. Māori MP, Oreni Kaipara, is pulling a pūkana with the mob. There's a photo of her giving a thumbs up next to the mob. There's the Green candidate, Michael Mulipola, also giving a thumbs up. And then Green Party MP, Hūhana Linden, smiling as well. And guess how we got these photos? Oreni Kaipara put them up on her Instagram account last night. So she obviously doesn't understand what she's just done. I mean, talk about scoring an own goal. Obviously, This is completely unsurprising from these parties. I mean, the Green Party is the party of Tamitha Paul, who has publicly said she thinks police are threatening. And the Maori Party, even last night in the minor party leaders' debate, stood by the policy of shutting down all prisons in this country in the next 15 years. So I don't think it's going to shock anyone to know that these people are perhaps a little bit more sympathetic to criminals than your average New Zealander is. But the problem with this photo is that it takes party policy's Buried somewhere deep inside a manifesto you'd have to go and dig up online, and it turns them into something that people can look at. Pictures of people with their arms around the mongrel mob. Now, this photo, when I say this photo, I mean there are multiple photos, so it's these photos. are probably not as big of a problem for the Maori Party and the Green Party as they are for the Labour Party, because the Labour Party will most likely be attracting a higher proportion of middle New Zealand voters who will hate the sight of this, and the thought of Labour forming some sort of soft-on-crime give-money-to-the-gangs coalition will freak them out a lot. In an election this close, and we know it is this close, right? The polls tell us this all the time. In an election this close, this was a mistake the Greens and the Maori Party should not have made. For more from Heather Duplessy-Allen Drive, listen live to News Talk ZB from 4 p.m. weekdays or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1: I think we might have the first significant own goal of the election campaign. It's the mongrel mob picture. Now, if you haven't caught up on this, you should have a look at it. It's blown up online. Photos have emerged of a group of Māori Party and Green Party MPs and candidates meeting with the mongrel mob at one of their gang pads. And in the photos, you've got Hana Rawhiti Maipi Clark of the Māori Party posing with her arms around a couple of mongrel mob members. One of them is, of course, Harry Tam. Māori MP, Oreni Kaipara, is pulling a pūkana with the mob. There's a photo of her giving a thumbs up next to the mob. There's the Green candidate, Michael Mulipola, also giving a thumbs up. And then Green Party MP, Hūhana Linden, smiling as well. And guess how we got these photos? Oreni Kaipara put them up on her Instagram account last night. So she obviously doesn't understand what she's just done. I mean, talk about scoring an own goal. Obviously, This is completely unsurprising from these parties. I mean, the Green Party is the party of Tamitha Paul, who has publicly said she thinks police are threatening. And the Maori Party, even last night in the minor party leaders' debate, stood by the policy of shutting down all prisons in this country in the next 15 years. So I don't think it's going to shock anyone to know that these people are perhaps a little bit more sympathetic to criminals than your average New Zealander is. But the problem with this photo is that it takes party policy's Buried somewhere deep inside a manifesto you'd have to go and dig up online, and it turns them into something that people can look at. Pictures of people with their arms around the mongrel mob. Now, this photo, when I say this photo, I mean there are multiple photos, so it's these photos. are probably not as big of a problem for the Maori Party and the Green Party as they are for the Labour Party, because the Labour Party will most likely be attracting a higher proportion of middle New Zealand voters who will hate the sight of this, and the thought of Labour forming some sort of soft-on-crime give-money-to-the-gangs coalition will freak them out a lot. In an election this close, and we know it is this close, right? The polls tell us this all the time. In an election this close, this was a mistake the Greens and the Maori Party should not have made. For more from Heather Duplessy-Allen Drive, listen live to News Talk ZB from 4 p.m. weekdays or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
