Labour MP's recently had lots to say when Gerry Brownlee made some comments about Finland, But today, the boot is on the other foot; Stuff reports:
Another MP is in diplomatic hot water after warning that New Zealand risked turning into "Australia's Mexico".Labour MP David Parker made the comments in relation to New Zealand being a low wage economy compared with Australia.But Mexican ambassador Leonora Rueda said in a letter to Mr Parker Mexico was the 14th biggest economy in the world and was this year presiding over the G20 summit - "the most important international mechanism for dialogue at the economic level, comprised of the 20 most influential developed and emerging economies in the world."
In the interests of consistency, we look forward to the likes of Martyn Bradbury at Tumeke, Idiot/Savant at No Right Turn and various anonymous authors at The Standard lampooning Parker as the did Brownlee, and causing for all manner of remedies from apology to resignation.
7 comments:
Brownlee was an idiot for insulting Finland. A front-bench Government MP should have more sense.
But you're happy to give the Opposition's #3-ranked MP a free pass, are you Anon? Well; at least we know where you stand.
As you must be aware, ther is a differnce in the cases. Mr Brownlee, unthinking, launched a comprehensive attack on Finland in ignorance ; Mr Parker was alluding in a well-established manner to something that most Mexicans agree with - the impact of NAFTA on the maquiladora sector (that is, the transfer of low-paying jobs from the US to (primarily) Mexican border territories). He was orrect in using the metaphor in relation to the arrival of Australian jobs here. There is a literature on this, which I'm happy to share with you.
I don't doubt that you have the literature Robert. But I do doubt that in making the comparison by way of a media release that Parker was expecting the Great Unwashed to have interpreted things in the manner to which you allude. Just like Brownlee's comments, Parker's dig was intended to be a sound-bite, and it has rebounded on him. He needs to apologise.
You are, I believe, quite wrong. Making a well established, internationally accepted point that is factually correct and is the focus of serious discussion in Mexico is quite different from Mr Brownlee's bluster. There is no apology needed. Indeed, you will note that thr Mexican ambassador slides round the factually-correct maquiladora point (Mexican officials are, after all, only doing their job)
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Winter is right, Brownlee was, and remains, a stupid clot.
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