Former Spin doctor Kevin List has been described as a wild card for the position of Labour Party President, but I think he has a lot going for him. Firstly, a history as a spin doctor is highly valuable in a political position and secondly, he shares management’s taste for over-the-top knee jerk reactions.
[…] he does say alcohol should be banned from all party events. “It’s not supposed to be a party.
“I don’t see why political events need to have alcohol.
“I know that sounds a little bit puritanical. But a lot of my experiences around the Beehive involved alcohol and New Zealand has got a drinking problem anyway.”
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There was a time when we used to describe the Green Party as the “Ban party”. They never seemed to come across a ban that they didn’t like. Labour, however, have become Green-lite, thinking that the solution to any scandal or tragedy is to ban something.
For example, when a terrorist from overseas got hold of weapons and ammunition because our existing gun laws were not followed, Labour chose to BAN certain guns and add more gun laws rather than look into why the existing laws didn’t work as intended.
Because young people at a Young Labour Camp were left unsupervised with access to mountains of free alcohol and some of them got sexually assaulted, Kevin List would like to BAN alcohol from ALL Labour party functions rather than address the issue of why they were left unsupervised and why there was so much free alcohol available to them.
While the knee jerk extreme reaction that Kevin List suggests is typical of how Labour tends to react to problems, I think he will have to pry the alcohol from their cold dead hands. While they might go for banning alcohol from future Young Labour camps, they will never go for a ban on all Labour party functions. After all, once you take away the rose-tinted glasses provided by alcohol they will be forced to face the cold harsh reality of socialism, and no one wants to wake up with that!
