Beat the Bish

Stuff reports:

Chris Bishop says he’s looking forward to spending 10 minutes playing an unusual new protest game called “beat the Bish”.

The housing minister’s political opponents in Wellington, through a lobby group called “Live Well-ington”, have launched a computer game to protest against his reforms to local government and resource management law.

The game, titled “Beat the Bish”, allows users to play as either Stan Walker, the soon-to-be-demolished Gordon Wilson flats, or figures such as “cyclists” and elderly home owners.

In the game, those players stand atop the Beehive and need to bat off flying Bishop faces heading towards them. They can throw cricket bats, coffee cups, e-scooters and also musician Don McGlashan at Bishop to fend him off.

Bishop said McGlashan and the cricket bats were a nice touch, given his public fandom of both.

“Someone’s done a really deep dive on my life. Weirdly, I’m oddly flattered,” he told reporters on Wednesday.

He laughed off concerns this game was a “depiction of political violence”.

These are the sorts of slings and arrows of political life. I’m not taking it personally,“ he said.

Nice to have an MP not go wailing to the media because people are being mean to him online. Can you imagine what the reaction would be if someone did such a game about say a Green MP!

You can play the game here.