> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://goodoil.news/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # It’s Ok When the Left Does It - URL: https://goodoil.news/its-ok-when-the-left-does-it/ - Published: 2022-09-22T20:00:00.000Z - Updated: 2024-07-17T16:56:10.000Z - Author: Cam Slater - Tags: NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:48 Grant Robertson has decided to hold a pity party over the amount of abuse Labour politicians are copping when they dare to saunter arrogantly outside of the Wellington Beltway. He has complained that some protestors called him mean things and one had a lamington that may or may not possibly have been used as a projectile. He’s upset about it but forgets when the left did similar things. Apparently, it’s ok when the left does it. > The deputy Prime Minister has revealed he needed to engage security detail usually only reserved for the Prime Minister to attend a public meeting recently. > > The **abuse and vitriol from a small sector of the public’s got so intense Labour’s considering axing its iconic public walkabouts** on next year’s election campaign. > > Back in 2020, there was peak Jacindamania. A hyped-up electorate could not get enough, with Jacinda Ardern swamped by crowds during walkabouts. > > But next year will not be the same. > > “We are going to have to think about this election campaign in a slightly different way,” Grant Robertson said on Tuesday. > > That’s because, peaking at the parliamentary protest, **politicians are increasingly the target of abuse and threats.** > > “It seems to have a different, more violent nature,” Greens co-leader Marama Davidson said. > > Recently, the deputy Prime Minister took the unusual step of taking the Prime Minister’s security detail – the DPS – with him to an event in Northland where **protestors prepared with lamingtons disrupted Robertson’s meetings.** They followed him to a hotel and even blockaded the airport. > > Newshub understands Robertson needed to be driven onto the tarmac and board directly from there. > > “**They were screaming and yelling at me** that I was a paedophile and various other revolting things,” said Robertson. “Those experiences are not great and **DPS were there to protect me** but they can’t possibly be there to protect all politicians.” > > Newshub Poor Robbo, he hasn’t managed to work out that when you pit mate against mate, family against family and destroy people’s jobs, careers, livelihoods, businesses and relationships through draconian mandates that created a two-tier society, that just maybe some people feel a bit aggrieved about that. Perhaps he might like to reflect that being a part of the most divisive government in living memory, where mandates created an us and them situation and race-based policies where they’ve invented co-governance and decided to create essentially an apartheid state in New Zealand, all without a skerrick of consensus or consultation, might also make people just a tad angry. Or the fact that when a very large group of people brought those grievances to the Parliament that the politicians totally ignored them, and worse, the regime sent in the Police to crack skulls, might also make people realise that politicians truly are the elites who refuse to listen so they may as well chuck lamingtons at them. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/2443921.jpg) John Boscawen And that’s the thing, isn’t it? The politicians appear to think they are special, and the dirty proles need to realise that. They are there to rule, and you will do what you are told. Grant Robertson should be thankful that Kiwis are so laid back that a lamington is considered an egregious act of violence that MPs need protection from. Of course, Grant Robertson forgets when [the left thought biffing lamingtons at politicians was funny.](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/candidate-creamed-in-sponge-cake-attack/5LGG4OF5HHFK2ECZ22KID55H7Y/?ref=goodoil.news) ACT candidate John Boscawen had a lamington dumped on top of his head by a left candidate in the Mt Albert by-election, and my how the left laughed. Then he forgets how the left [has chucked dildos](https://www.1news.co.nz/2016/02/05/tpp-protester-boldly-chucks-dildo-at-steven-joyce-at-waitangi/?ref=goodoil.news), [buckets of mud](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/john-banks-coated-with-mud-on-way-to-court/7IODVDL4NXP5LHQDYK7732AHAQ/?ref=goodoil.news), [handfuls of mud at Waitangi](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/waitangi-mud-man-given-diversion/34V3NHXBK3TFVMGOX2UAHSZUVA/?ref=goodoil.news), and [conducted mock executions](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/asset-sales-threat-stirs-first-time-protester/EPJRFVXTSLWODLRZIWYNVTD4XI/?ref=goodoil.news) of centre-right politicians. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/flbolduuuampfyt.jpg) Protestors guillotine an effigy of Prime Minister John Key as the heads of deputy Prime Minister Bill English and Minister of Justice Judith Collins lie on the grass during the National Day For Action called by Aotearoa Is Not For Sale at Britomart on July 14, 2012 in Auckland, New Zealand. So, in Grant Robertson’s eyes, and the media’s eyes, the story is about him being abused, and not about *why* he is being abused. He thinks he can ruin countless people’s lives and everyone is supposed to be polite about it. In any case, the lamington was in far more danger from Grant Robertson than he was in danger from a flying lamington. Looking at Grant Robertson he certainly doesn’t appear to have dodged too many lamingtons or pies. No doubt he thinks people yelling, “Eat a salad” would be scary too. And to heap more misery on top of the lamington outrage, I’ll chuck his own arguments that were used to ignore people suffering under mandates right back at him. He’s learning that his choices, too, have consequences. Like his choice to belong to a Government which discriminated against its own people. Like his choice to belong to a Government committing crimes against humanity, injecting an unproven jab into our kids – you’re damn right we’re angry. They are the first government to be widely hated by a majority of New Zealanders. Due to their myopic push for nasty policies that negatively impacted ordinary people’s lives they forgot that this is a tiny country, and political careers are finite. And citizens are everywhere. Add to that the refusal, time and again, to understand, listen and govern according to our wishes, not theirs. The fortified walls of the Cabinet Room have shielded them for all these years, now they must face reality. Poor them. This election they won’t be able to infest shopping centres without being harangued by people who have had a gutsful of them. They better get used to it. If they only get lamingtons chucked at them they should be thankful for small mercies. --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/shutterstock_214223668_1_pxoz38x.jpg) ## Help Fund Our NewsDesk We are building a NewsDesk, hiring journalists and taking the fight to the mainstream media. Will you help fund our NewsDesk? - For security reasons, credit card donations require Javascript. Please enable Javascript in your browser before continuing. 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