Te Papa honours Taito Phillip Field

The SST reports Te Papa has an exhibition which includes tribute to Taito Phillip Field for his “unwavering commitment to his community”.

This is the same Te Papa that has a quiz promoting Labour Party membership.

Two issues here.

1) I am very surprised that Te Papa would include any politician still in Parliament as part of a display. It is politically inappropriate to do so, especially with such subjective phrases as “unwavering commitment to his community”.

2) Even if one did have such a display, you think they would have the common sense to remove that part of it once the MP is facing a police inquiry into their actions.

No (2) is not so much the issue. No (1) should never have happened. Active politicians should not be eulogised by Te Papa.