Another Labour bullying story!

1 News reports:

The Labour Party has confirmed former Police Minister and current senior MP Ginny Andersen is the subject of a bullying complaint relating to her alleged behaviour towards young party volunteers on election night. 

The complaint, which 1News has obtained, came from the mother of one the volunteers. 

It said Andersen yelled and screamed at her daughter and son on election night about them not doing enough volunteering and made them feel like they were to blame for her losing the Hutt South seat. 

The complaint said Andersen behaved aggressively towards her children and made them leave Labour’s election venue. 

Andersen has repeatedly refused to answer phone calls from 1News today about the allegations.

This is pretty nasty stuff. I’ve been a young volunteer for a political party, and I’ve seen hundreds and hundreds of them work for their political parties to the point of exhaustion. The Young Nats constantly amaze me with how much time they will spend campaigning for their party and candidates. young volunteers are almost worth their weight in gold.

To have an MP blame two young volunteers for her failure to keep Hutt South is not acceptable.

UPDATE: Stuff has more details:

She goes on to list other alleged incidents over a three-year period, in which the volunteer was belittled, and shouted at for choosing a family trip over working for the MP.

How dare a volunteer choose go go on a family holiday rather than campaign for Ginny!