More trouble for the Greens

[Lilith7]

It is too easy to judge a criminal case on the basis of media reports, the full story never gets told.

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No the poster knows who it was.  [Removed:Rule 3]

Yes there are allegations and the Greens will hope they are shown to be untrue - can't have another Green MP exposed for criminal behaviour especially where it could be off the back of poor migrant workers - those they are supposedly meant to protect.

You know who is actually supposed to protect migrant workers?

The Immigration Department and MPI not some lowly Green MP. And a fat lot of good either of them do in the hundreds of cases out there. Heavens there aren't even enough staff to check all the successful applications by employers let alone visa holders. I don't know what is happening where you live, but for example -  we watch building sites all around us operate and the ones with migrant labour work all hours, under all conditions, and go up really fast. Eyebrows get raised and suspicions aroused, but if the system is being exploited who knows...

The awful reality is there are more slaves now than there have ever been in human history, and New Zealand has its share. The myth of equal opportunity, fairness, and safety in this nation is just that - a myth. And MPs are among those responsible, not just Green ones. All of them.

When there is money to be made fast, people always get hurt. There is no such thing as a free lunch, ask Seymour...

I sometimes think that greed is the most  unattractive - &  damaging - aspect of human nature. Though I may be somewhat biased due to presently re reading The grapes of wrath, John Steinbeck, which deals with precisely that & all the horrific consequences of it.

That particular book & one or two others, should imo be required reading for anyone who is, or wanting to be, a politician.
 To be read at least yearly - & perhaps explained to them,just to be sure they get it.