The National Party’s Taieri candidate Stephen Jack has resigned after it was revealed by Stuff he had shared a Facebook post that compared former prime minister Jacinda Ardern to Adolf Hitler.
The post shared by Jack was a poem that contained the line: “Just as Hitler had the SS, our prime minister’s on the job. She’s given up on the police and bought the Mongrel Mob”. The poem was posted in 2021 and had remained on his social media until he shut the page down yesterday.
A spokesperson for the party confirmed to media that Jack stood down on Wednesday evening.
The offending Facebook post was the second incident involving Jack and his social media account to emerge this week. Earlier, it had been reported the hopeful MP had shared a sexist joke in 2020 that was this week labelled by National deputy leader Nicola Willis as “disgusting”.
Jack’s profile on the National website described him as a farmer who hoped to advocate for the rural community.