Oh dear ... oh dear ... oh dear!

As if the Labour Party didn't have enough problems, they are now breaking the law.

Labour launched it's Stop Asset Sales campaign a few weeks ago. At the centre of the campaign are billboards in the shape of stop signs, such as the one below.


There's just one problem for the Labour Party; NZTA rules for advertising signs expressly prohibit the replication of traffic signs; this, from NZTA's website:

An advertising sign or device should not be displayed or constructed where visible from a roadway if it:
• is coloured red, green, orange, white or yellow in combinations of colours and/or shapes which may be mistaken for a traffic control device

Oh dear. Someone didn't check with NZTA before this campaign was kicked off, because Labour's signs are red, and are in shapes which may be mistaken for traffic control devices, to whit, stop signs; that's the whole point of the campaign!

And to make matters worse, Labour activists have been taking these signs out to roadsides and waving them about, and on Labour's Stop Asset Sales website, boasting about taking them into high-traffic areas such as Fitzherbert Avenue in Palmerston North and SH 2 through the Hutt Valley.

This is another own goal for the Red Team. And not only have they fallen foul of the law; they are also being mimicked in the blogosphere and on social media sites. Parodies such as Stop Self-serving Unionists and Stop Helen Txting abound on Facebook.

Meanwhile we've changed our profile picture of FB to a sign saying Past Asset Sales, a dig at the fact that Phil Goff, Annette King and Trevor Mallard sold far more assets in the 1980's than John Key and co have, or are proposing to. Perhaps someone should come up with a sign that says Stop Rewriting History, which would fit Phil Goff to a tee!

If Labour's campaign wasn't so hypocritical (not to mention illegal), it might be funny!