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# He Was Labour Until he Lost…Now He’s Dog Tucker
- URL: https://goodoil.news/he-was-labour-until-he-lost-now-hes-dog-tucker/
- Published: 2019-10-14T19:30:09.000Z
- Updated: 2019-10-15T09:30:53.000Z
- Author: Juana Atkins
- Tags: Featured, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:49

This [from Stuff nearly a year ago](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/108686893/wellington-mayor-justin-lester-eyes-second-term-in-2019-election?ref=goodoil.news):

> Wellington Mayor Justin Lester has tossed his hat in the ring for a second term.   
>  
> **Labour** announced their line-up on Sunday, with all the existing Wellington City Council Labour councillors Brian Dawson, Peter Gilberd and Fleur Fitzsimons all seeking re-election next year.  
>  
> They will be joined by new candidates Rebecca Matthews-Heron for the Onslow-Western Ward, and 20-year-old Teri O’Neill for the Eastern Ward.  
>  
> “**I love Wellington and with our Labour team on Council over the last few years we have been striving to make the city even better,” Lester said.**

Now that he’s lost PM Jacinda Ardern has [chucked him under the bus](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/116575387/prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-distances-labour-from-failed-wellington-mayoral-candidate-justin-lester?ref=goodoil.news) and lied about his allegiances at the same time **breaking her own promise to never tell a lie:**

> It seems Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has thrown deposed Labour Wellington mayor Justin Lester under a Wellington bus.  
>  
> Lester may still be licking his wounds after [losing out to Andy Foster ](https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/wellington/116539131/justin-lester-out-wellington-city-council-results-come-in-peter-jacksonbacked-andy-fosters-majority-increases?ref=goodoil.news)but Ardern seems to have poured salt all over them and cut ties with him – in a very obvious slip of the tongue.   
>  
> On Monday, during her weekly post-Cabinet press conference, **Ardern swiftly distanced the former mayor from the Labour Party by incorrectly stating that he had run this election as an independent.**

> However, **Lester went through an official process to become the party’s official candidate** – unlike Phil Goff for example, who was only Labour-endorsed.

Liar, liar, pantsuit on fire.

Jacinda Ardern isn’t all that truthy anymore is she?

You can bet your bottom dollar that she’d have claimed him if he’d won.