Stupid smears

Labour continue their obsession with the Exclusive Brethren, attacking National MP Kate Wilkinson because she used to act as legal counsel to the EBs in Christchurch.

Ruth Dyson claims this is a further link between National and the Exclusive Brethren.

Now while it is quite fair to ask about meetings between National MPs and EB to discuss policies, it is desperate smear politics to attack an MP for their work as a lawyer before they became an MP.

Otherwise one could use the presence of former criminal defence lawyer Napier MP Russell Fairbrother in Labour’s caucus as “proof of Labour Party links to murderers, rapists and ganag members”.

Stupid isn’t it?