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Labour Party Disruptor Caught On Camera
Labour Party Disruptor Caught On
Camera
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Grunge from
the mid-90s assaulted Labour Party congress goers this
afternoon in Wellington after a fire alarm was set off by,
an as yet unidentified, miscreant. The fire alarm was
detonated just as Prime Minister Helen Clark had begun a
speech to the party faithful leading to a full evacuation of
Wellington's town hall.
Scoop discovered that a delegate from New Lynn had snapped the alleged 'switcher on of the fire alarm'. This holder up of the Prime Minister had gone deep cover to the conference with a jaunty Labour Party red scarf. The delegate was more than happy to pose for a couple of photos but was not sadly willing to hand over their footage of the action that led to a late afternoon tea for all concerned.
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Outside the
Labour Party conference a small but diverse range of
protestors made up in megaphone wattage what they lacked in
numbers by haranguing the milling delegates. Some demanded
an end to mining in Happy Valley while others called for
'the weed to be freed' others still accused the Labour Party
of stifling freedom and a few just looked a little bit
menacing with novelty face masks.
Once all the
Labour delegates were outside the protestors let rip on
their boom boxes with the fiery but somewhat dated rap-rock
of Rage Against the Machine. A small amount of shoving
broke out briefly between some of the black clad more
anarchistically inclined of the protestors and various
delegates who called the protestors cowards for refusing to
show their faces. While there may have been some hearing
loss resulting from the hi-powered megaphones no actual
violence broke out. After the fire service gave the all
clear party faithful trooped back inside after an robust
exchange of ideas. One peeved attendee suggested to Scoop
that the protestors must be in the pay of the Business
Roundtable.
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