Labour leader David Shearer is being spoken to by police this evening after telling a Pakistani taxi driver that he didn’t belong in this country and that he could not legally buy a home.
Tariq Humayun, who came to New Zealand from Peshawar, Pakistan in 2002, was driving Shearer to his Wellington residence from the airport late last night. A drunken Shearer reportedly told Humayun that he was “the Prime Minister” and that he had just passed a new law preventing “people like you” from owning residential property.
Humayun, apparently familiar with what Shearer was talking about, politely informed him that the newly-announced Labour Party policy did not affect permanent residents of New Zealand, and under that policy, he would therefore be entitled to own a house.
“Right, well, yeah, you know, you listen here,” replied Shearer, apparently speaking to a door handle. “You’re not from here. You’re a bloody Iraqi from Islam. No houses for you.”
Shearer reportedly went on to brag about how he would get “all the Winston voters,” and further threatened Humayun, telling him that he would soon be banned from owning other New Zealand assets, such as Pineapple Lumps and “those red trees.”
Speaking to media today, a humbled Shearer at first denied any recollection of the incident, but having been shown video of his racially tinged rant, admitted that it wasn’t “a good look.”
Oh dear. There's not much more that can be said. Poor Mr Shearer...
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