The Member from Mars has turned into a dobbing, busy-body, snitch. Nobody likes a dobber.
Politicians are on notice – if they throw personal insults around the House, they will be publicly exposed.
Green Party MP Catherine Delahunty has been “tweeting” – posting on the site Twitter – whenever offensive comments fly across the House.
“It’s an experiment to remind politicians to argue issues, not people. I just reached the end of my tether watching people making personal abusive comments in the House.”
Insults including “fat” and “stupid” have no place in Parliament, she says; nor do comments that are racist, sexist or discriminatory in other ways such as hair colour or sexual orientation.
“There was a comment around someone’s disability, where an MP called another MP a name based on their disability, and that was the end for me. The whole country can be listening in, including people with disabilities listening to that mockery.”
Sheesh….she doesn’t like people being called stupid, sounds like she is a little touchy about herself there. Calling Nick Smith mental isn’t using his disability against him, it’s true. Anyone who believes that New Zealand can single-handedly make an impact on the earth’s climate with being the ONLY country in the world with an ETS is stark, raving, bonkers mental. I’ve come to the conclusion that the whole reason Nick Smith is in parliament is to represent the the mentally impaired.
