Today Peter Dunne is expected to vote in support of two Labour Member’s bills:
Dunne to use casting vote
- David Clark’s bill to Monday-ise Anzac Day and Waitangi Day
- Sue Moroney’s bill to increase paid parental leave to 26 week
Dunne has commented on Facebook:
Tomorrow, two Labour Member’s Bill will pass first reading in ParliamentThe vote in both cases will 61-60 in favour.
What perplexes me is that Labour seems happy to accept my vote being the one that tips their Bills over the line tomorrow, while only a few weeks they were railing in the most disgusting terms against the fact that the Mixed Ownership Model Bill was also passed 61-60 on the basis of my vote.
In both cases, my vote was based on long standing UnitedFuture policy positions. I have been entirely consistent. But on the face of it, Labour’s position seems not only remarkable inconsistent, but also extremely self-serving.
This is a fair call from Dunne. He has been bombarded with extensive criticism on hos MOM Bill vote – much of it ill-informed or deliberately false.
Ironically David Clark has been one Labout MP who has openly criticised Dunne…
1 –Absent conscience when it comes to keeping his election promise never to sell off our water assets.
…and wouldn’t retract this blatantly false accusation, but who accepts Dunne’s support for his own bill when it’s on exactly the same basis, consistent with United Future policy.
So Dunne has made a point…
Mr Dunne admitted he was tempted to withhold support for the Labour MPs’ bills in revenge for the “smears” he was subjected to during debate on the state assets sale bill, but decided sticking to his principles was more noble than political utu.
…but common sense politics prevails.