So Does Deputy Prime Minister - One-Time O[tago] U[niversity] S[tudents] A[ssociation] President, No Less - Grant Robertson Have No Skeletons in His Own (Rather Capacious) Cupboard...? I Wonder...

The reason I deign to ask?

Certainly not to seek - in any way, shape or form - to exonerate a self-confessed (and physically carbon-copy) 'thug and bully' fellow parliamentarian (the newest kid on the parliamentary blocks, so to speak), Tauranga M.P.-elect Sam Uppendall, from whatever he may well have coming to him...

...but rather to make the fairly significant point that many of his parliamentary fellow-travellers - if not he himself - better beware: those who live in glass-houses themselves oughta be the last ones out of the starting-blocks to hurl stones, let alone rocks...

And to his and their credit, thus far they haven't risen to the bait and done so...

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