September 20, 2023
Rebuke after Kerikeri debate bullying
New Zealand First Northland candidate Shane Jones is calling out the behaviour of National Party members at a candidates’ debate in Kerikeri.
He says the blue-clad supporters of National’s Grant McCullum shouted down Labour’s Willow-Jean Prime whenever she tried to speak.
He says they were deliberately intimidating, especially when any te reo Māori was used.
“Now, she has also got to learn it’s politics and you’ve got to argue your corner and I’ve had people yell and scram at me over the various times I’ve been to meetings but I think it showed no only a level of bullying behaviour but it showed Christopher Luxon and Grant’s team in a very poor light,” Mr Jones says.
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