When National MP Erica Stanford asked Chris Hipkins a question, she probably did not expect him to respond to her with nothing more than an internet meme.
That is precisely what Stanford received in response to a written parliamentary question from December when she asked Hipkins a question about allocating MIQ spots for teachers granted a border exception.
“Has the Minister met with the Minister for Covid-19 response to request that MIQ spots be allocated to teachers granted a border exception; and if so, on what date, if not, why not?” the East Coast Bays MP wrote.
Hipkins, who is both the Minister for Covid-19 response and Minister of Education, responded with “please refer attached” and included a pdf file with a popular meme showing two images of Spider-Man pointing at each other.
The National Party’s Covid-19 spokesman Chris Bishop took to Twitter to say that the Spider-Man reference was appropriate, “given attitude to MIQ and split migrants”, pointing out that the name of the latest film about the superhero is called ‘No Way Home’.
