Is it an anti-smacking bill?

Many on the left are wailing that it is all the media’s fault the public don’t like the anti-smacking bill, because they report it as an anti smacking bill, and they claim it is an anti child abuse bill.

Well a helpful reader has pointed out that Sue Bradford’s own press release in October 2003 labelled it an anti-smacking bill.

And yet on 15 March 2007 Bradford says “I have never called it an anti-smacking bill – my opponents did, and the media adopted the phrase”

God the proponents of this bill are so dishonest, it is unbelievable. I hope the media, who Bradford has attacked as being to blame, highlight her hypocrisy and outright lie.

UPDATE: A compromise has been reached. Details in another post.