Judge for yourself.

Here is his Parliamentary Question (No8) today.

  1. RICARDO MENÉNDEZ MARCH to the Minister for Social Development and Employment: E tautoko ana ia i tāna kōrero “one of the challenges that they clearly talked to me about—that I agree with in terms of removing the minimum wage exemption—is the fact that a group of New Zealanders, who have significant challenges and would clearly produce less in an hour than someone else, may well be shut out of employment”; mēnā āe, ka pēhea tā te āwhinatanga utu, te hoatu tāpiritanga nei ki ngā kaituku mahi, e ārahi ki te korenga mahi mā ngā tāngata?
  3. Does she stand by her statement that “one of the challenges that they clearly talked to me about—that I agree with in terms of removing the minimum wage exemption—is the fact that a group of New Zealanders, who have significant challenges and would clearly produce less in an hour than someone else, may well be shut out of employment”; if so, how would a wage supplement that would provide a top-up to employers lead to shutting people out of employment?

Ignore the 1, 2 & 3 in the middle, I couldn’t get rid of them without distorting my post. The lower bit fully in English is the translation of the bastardised Te Reo (tokenism) / English original.

My bet is he will stutter and stumble in delivering the question.

What a Dickhead and he seems to be the number 3 ranking Green – no wonder they have no credibility.

Seldom do I agree with Winston Peters but he was bang on the money yesterday when he said The Green Party members and the Maori Party members are an insult to all New Zealanders – or words to that effect.