Letters to the editor

Updated April 27 2018 - 4:21pm, first published 4:00pm
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor

Selective criticism?

Local MP Roma Britnell’s attacks on the state Labor Party’s conduct raises questions about her own integrity. In her April 6 letter Ms Britnell enthusiastically criticises the Labor Party’s misuse of government funds and makes many other accusations. She states “When it comes to lectures on morality, Daniel Andrews and Labour do not have a leg to stand on”. Unfortunately, her criticism is selective and only applies to her political opponents. She does not criticize the recent Liberal Party pairing scandal. She says nothing about Mr Guy’s botched rezoning of farmland on Phillip Island and other questionable decisions when he was planning minister. She doesn’t comment on Mr Guy’s “lobster with a mobster”. Ms Britnell says of the Labor members who misuse money “if any other Victorian stole from their employer, they would lose their job”. Ms Britnell suggests twice that Labor MPs are hiding further misdeeds. “The question must be asked – what are they hiding?” This is an easy accusation to make without evidence and could just as easily be asked of Mr Guy or of Ms Britnell. By criticising Labor’s conduct Ms Britnell is trying to portray herself as being moral and honest and having higher standards but Ms Britnell doesn’t have higher standards she has double standards. The standards she holds Labor to don’t apply to Mr Guy or other Liberal Party politicians. Why then would these standards even apply to Ms Britnell herself? Recently a Labor MP accused Ms Britnell of making racist comments (29/03/2018). She was criticised by a former UDV president for undermining the dairy lobby group. One of her farm workers took her to the Fair Work Ombudsman for underpayment of overtime penalty rates (29/10/2015). She has been thrown out of Parliament at least three times for misconduct. When it comes to lectures on morality, does Roma Britnell have a leg to stand on?

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