ex Labour MP says Parliament worse than prison

Spies report to me an enlightening interview in the HB Country Scene with former Labour MP Russell Fairbrother.

Highlights include:

• “The conditions at Parliament were tougher than Mangaroa Prison
• All the work is done by five or six people who run the country
• the other MPs are really just like insurance salesman, with no say in the policy they sell

The whole article is about how glad he is to no longer be an MP. Which is strange considering how ferociously he battled Stuart Nash for the Napier nomination in 2008.