An unedifying spectacle
Adam does not like Chris Carter, he cannot fathom how the guy survived for so long, other than by being Clark’s poodle.
Yet despite that, he finds the rush by Labour and its fellow travellers to denigrate Carter by saying he, Carter, is unbalanced nauseating and repellent. The suggestions that Carter is mentally unhinged are not an acceptable way of seeking to deal with the issue, in fact such suggestions are being used to obscure questions raised by Carter on the grounds that he does not know what he is dong.
For a party that takes PC to extremes and would jump on anybody else who sought to suggest mental illness was the cause of an unpopular stance, as being insensitive to sufferers from such illness, the unedifying spectacle of senior Labour members queuing up to explain away Carter’s statements as those of someone who is ‘unbalanced’ is singularly repellent.
If Adam was a Labour voter he would be very seriously pondering the moral compass of a political party that sought to divert attention from some critical questions raised by a senior MP by claiming that said MP was mentally ill. This is especially the case when even blind Freddy can see that there is validity to the issues raised.
Thus Labour do themselves a further significant disservice by effectively signalling to the voting public that they think we are stupid enough to buy into their dis-information and will not see the smokescreen for what it is, a smokescreen so that Labour avoids addressing the real issues which confront them. Again voters are not stupid and will not be amused or impressed by the disdain that Labour appears to show them.
Labour is out of touch, and signally failing to confront why they lost in 2008. Last century’s front bench, fighting the battles of 20 years ago and failing to address the issues of today.
If he is ill it reflects very poorly on his colleagues for not recognising that and supporting him earlier.
It just looks like they’re trying to hose down a fire and using mental illness as an excuse.
In any event just because someone is ‘ill’ does not mean they are lying.
Interestingly some of us who are somewhat older may remember that in Soviet Russia inconvenient truth tellers were often sent to ‘mental’ hospitals.
Very well said Adam. We also blogged about this yesterday, noting the irony of an inherent nastiness just beneath the surface in the party that purports to care. That senior Labour members of the likes of Mallard and Maryan Street have been rolled out to publicly discredit Chris Carter suggests that the latter’s reported statements are closer to the truth than Phil Goff may care to concede.
From where I’m watching, Goff is, politically at least, a dead man walking.
To a degree, saying that Carter is unbalanced is more palatable than admitting the man is a treacherous and very vindictive old poof, especially with regard to the sensitivities of the rest of the Rainbow mob.
The other interesting point is Carter took up an invitation to visit China that had been arranged when he was Opposition spokesman on Foreign Affairs. Clearly this invite should have been passed to his successor..
I wonder what this nasty and vindictive man discussed with the Chinese?
JC