Labour Love

Is it that anyone who dares to question the status quo in the Labour Party either gets kicked out, excluded or personally attacked and left with no choice but to resign?

There was the Princes Street(basically a Young Labour branch) and Young Labour scenarios and now it is happening in the wider party with Lisette Taylor, the former treasurer in Mrs Hartley's Northcote electorate council (LEC), claiming she was dumped "for refusing Mrs Hartley's request to falsify electorate committee records for tax avoidance purposes at the LEC meeting in April".

Ms Taylor had been the LEC Treasurer for nine years and the Auckland region treasurer for two, and yet Ann Hartley states that "She has been dropped from every other position in the Labour Party. She has driven everybody ... she's a very difficult person." Why would a difficult person be given such important positions?

Is she only difficult because she would not falsify documents to avoid tax?

Maybe Labour should look at lowering tax and then they would not have to be faced with having to potentially commit tax fraud.