Mike's Minute: Our political week was an embarrassment

I guess you look at New Zealand in a slightly different light when you are offshore. The only news New Zealand got in Australia last week was the video of a pig that was wandering around Auckland. They thought that was funny. As I read about home I wondered what sort of parallel universe I was in. Ingrid Leary, a Labour MP from Dunedin, wanders into a gang meeting but it’s the wrong meeting. The Prime Minister says he would have left straight away. Chris Hipkins must be enjoying his final days in office on the international stage because, surely he has given up, given all that he has had to deal with since he got the job. Never in his wildest dreams, I am sure, did he envisage having to defend, sack or talk to such a gargantuan selection of idiots who have done nothing but undermine and damage him and their party. So, while old Ingrid is at gang headquarters, I also read of Tory Whanau in Wellington. Tory was fresh from her successful vote to basically destroy the downtown Golden Mile with their fanciful Let's Get Wellington Moving vote and then she heads out into said town. She's a bit tipsy and proceeds to make a fool of herself by asking "do you know who I am?" Or maybe she didn’t. Who knows, because there is claim and counter-claim. What seems in agreement is she had too much to drink and then walked out and didn’t pay. That is some high-quality leadership for you and adds to the ever-growing example, both locally and nationally, of people who are nowhere near close to being able to execute the job required of them. Then I read of Kiri Allan, who is yet again on leave, having turned up for about one day, before heading off home again, who has a series of allegations against her name. And although she denies it all, she says there hasn’t been a formal complaint, which is of course not the same thing. Anyway, Chris is going to have a word when he gets back, if he gets back. I personally wouldn’t come back. I'd spend the rest of the summer in Mykonos and cut my losses. But when you're in Australia and the big news is a pig in Auckland, and the place is littered with fools and buffoons behaving badly, Ii can tell you we really do look third world.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.