The Labour party have a major scandal on their hands now.
Firstly, the news broke on Monday about four alleged sexual assaults at a Young Labour camp opened by the Prime Minister. At least one MP was in attendance, and at least two staffers from the Labour’s whips office.
Then news started to drip-feed out on Twitter about other incidents:
Labour’s Andrew Kirton tells @reporter__ryan on @RadioLIVENZ they are investigating another assault at a different Labour event
Lisa Owen@lisaowennz
and;
And there are more. Some MPs will be very squeamish right now, especially on the historic events.
What is clear here, though, is that there appears to be a systemic culture of abuse and denial within Labour. I certainly know of many activities that have gone on at camps past, some of which involved MPs, sitting and past. It also makes one of Ian Wishart’s storiesfrom the last Labour government under Clark now ring true.
Labour’s ham-fisted and, frankly, tone deaf methods of dealing with this smacks of a cover-up and denial that they have an issue inside the party.
It makes all their slavering over Key’s ponytail pulling and Chris Bishop’s Snapchatting look self-serving. All the while they’ve been sitting on their own nasty scandal that may well see people jailed for serious crimes.