Mallard on Chinese students

Stuff reports:

Most political parties turned out last week to the Great Immigration Debate at Eden Park in Auckland, where Labour MP Trevor Mallard said New Zealand was getting a reputation for letting in “fat, rich lazy, unintelligent Chinese students”.

If you know any Chinese students, make sure they know what Labour thinks of them.

UPDATE: Trevor Mallard has commented:

David the reason the media who were there didn’t pick up on it was that I was quoting Chinese Minister of Education in circa 2003 who felt we needed to lift our game because we were getting some of the wealthy but less talented students. His words not mine.

Useful clarification. I’d still make the point that repeating someone else’s words can sometimes be seen as agreement, depending on context.