I write in response to Trevor Ammundsen’s contribution to ‘Through the Portal’ about ‘rude’ MPs from the Left.
Ironically, he made me laugh on a very dreary and wet Wednesday morning. It was not the theme that had me amused but the out-moded and seriously backward-looking tropes that belong, thankfully, to less enlightened times. How could any thoughtful person of today take seriously his comment about Julie Ann Genter being American born ‘…so possibly this is acceptable behaviour for their womenfolk’. What?? And his describing National MP Mat Doocey as ’…a mild-mannered West Coast boy who would not be used to such behaviour from either his mother or his wife’. These naive generalisations belong to a time long and thankfully gone.
Sadly, his musings on ‘rude’ MPs get worse.
Apparently, Trevor Mallard was very rude to his ‘guests’ and turned the sprinklers on them and played Barry Manilow music.’Quelle horreur.’ I am thinking of writing a piece about MPs from the Right behaving badly. It will go beyond ‘rudeness’. Names like Uffindell National MP for Tauranga and his cruel and vicious assault on a fellow boarder at King’s College comes to mind. I would mention David Garrett former Act MP and his fraudulent use of a dead child’s passport. Remember National MP Andrew Falloon and his sending indecent images to a young woman. The list goes on.
Bad behaviour occurs on all sides of the political aisle. I felt that, in the interests of balance, I would like to add another perspective to Mr Ammundsen’s contribution. Sometimes people are more upset about the behaviour of MPs than when they are just being ‘rude’.
