‘Dodgy pics’ Doyle refuses to resign as an MP for the NZ Greens.

It's not Benjamin Doyle's fault that the dodgy pics, symbols, and language on his Instagram account are being misunderstood.

Standing strong and soberly-dressed in a crisp, white, cross-over blouse with flared cuffs, a necklace, and dark plaid skirt – which, in all fairness, might have been a kilt – Green MP Benjamin Doyle declared “I refuse to be disappeared by hate”. Being the massive attention-seeker he is, it’s doubtful we would be so lucky he’d disappear for any reason. Plus, his salary as a Member of Parliament is probably the best he’s earned in his 32 years so far, and unlikely to be matched elsewhere.

After the March 28^th publication of the dodgy photos off his Instagram account (purportedly) featuring his child, accompanied by dubious symbols and language, Doyle did disappear from Parliament for a whole week whilst he and the Greens strategised on how to put a bandaid on the scandal. The two Green co-leaders, Chlöe Swarbrick and Marama Davidson, decided on the winning strategy of telling those who thought there was something off about Doyle’s Instagram account that they were being very mean, and didn’t understand how certain subsets of the rainbow community just spoke and behaved like that amongst their in-group.¹

Did I say ‘winning strategy’? I meant a WTF strategy, as was evident when howls of protest from the rainbow community at this proclamation got heard up and down the land. There were many from all walks of life who didn’t object, though, and nodded along with Chlöe and Marama, because, as we know, expecting the neo-rainbow crowd to have the same boundaries of decent behaviour as anyone else is akin to persecution of them, and denial of their authentic selves. Bear in mind that until March 28^th when he locked it down, Benjamin Doyle’s Instagram account was public, so the ‘in-group’ language and symbology was also available for anyone in the out-group to see.

Sadly, a week’s disappearance from parading around Parliament in his non-binary finery was all Doyle could hack, and he soon came back to give a press conference in the Rainbow Room at Parliament. Yes, the neo-rainbow brigade have had their own special room there since 2008 – so oppressed! Doyle admitted he’d been advised a while ago by the Green Party to close his Instagram account, but he chose not to because "I am here to bring my full self into Parliament and to represent my communities in the most authentic way possible. This is why when I was advised by the party to delete the page before coming to Parliament, I chose not to.”²

Previously a teacher at Hamilton High School, he was later employed by the Burnett Foundation (once the worthwhile AIDS Foundation, but now just pretty sick) where he is attributed with writing, or co-writing, a now removed article from their website on playing with and eating faeces, in the cause of representing the aforementioned communities. He’s now a Member of Parliament, and the Greens spokesperson for Early Childhood Education. To date, there is no word on whether or not he will retain that portfolio.

Flanked on either side of him at his press conference in solidarity were two women and two men, none of whom were the Green Party co-leaders Chlöe Swarbrick and Marama Davidson. Where were they? everyone wondered. Amongst the four supporters present were purple-haired Tabby Besley on his right, who is the head rainbow at the TQ+ lobby group InsideOUT, and Clive Aspin, an academic at Victoria University, on his immediate left.

I don’t know who the other two supporters are, however, Benjamin, Tabby, and Clive all appear to be in the same camp who don’t consider it sacrosanct to ensure a kid’s childhood has as little interference as possible in their natural development. And, no – transing one’s kid, as Doyle is reportedly doing, is not ‘natural development’. Clive Aspin can’t escape a sideways look or two, either, when reading what @2ETEKA, the person who exposed Doyle’s Instagram account, writes about him in this excerpt below (the full tweet can be found on @2ETEKA’s X account) -

“Clive Aspin, seen standing behind Ben Doyle in ‘solidarity’, is an academic at Victoria University who specialises in ‘decolonising Māori sexuality’. He is a proponent of the view that Māori were transgender and gay (takatapui) before white man came and introduced Christianity. Aspin has also written numerous published papers on Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE), a philosophy and program marketed by the UN and International Planned Parenthood (IPPF). IPPF is a far-left group started by occultist Alice Bailey, a disciple of Madame Blavatsky (eugenics and Hitler enthusiast). At the core of Bailey’s teachings were to remove parental control over their children, especially what they were taught, and promotion of ‘any type of sexual relationship including incest and bestiality as well as relations with minors’ [the accuracy of this assertion has been contested by a reader familiar with Alice Bailey’s work] this philosophy can be directly traced through modern academic work, and Clive’s work (which is referenced in Doyle’s own papers) has built on this foundation. Just remember, it was only last year that Vic University came under fire for a research paper designed to ‘reduce stigma attached to paedophiles’ [my emphasis]. Once the media slowly became aware of the story, the research and any trace of the masters students’ work has ‘disappeared’ completely.”

Birds of a feather flock together, eh?

Benjamin Doyle and his plethora of supporters think it’s wrong that his “private” Instagram account got exposed. First, the account wasn’t private in the sense it was locked, and Doyle has displayed nothing but narcissism in addressing the matter. If there’s anything apart from that and arrogance anywhere, he must be keeping it well-hidden under his kilt. And while he’s claiming that what he has on his personal social media account should be left alone, the Free Speech Union is having to defend teachers and nurses from the censure of their governing bodies’ for things they’ve posted on their personal social media accounts. Is there any outrage for these teachers and nurses’ predicament from the ‘outrage for Doyle’ brigade?

There’s no way a politician who didn’t have a self-issued “trans, non-binary, queer” get-out-of-jail-free card like Doyle has, would have been excused for having the same things on their social media account as he had. We all know it. The Greens are already a party in freefall, and if they can’t/won’t get rid of Doyle, it’s going to be a long, hard climb back up to any measure of credibility for them. Maybe, in a strange twist, we’ll end up having something to thank Benjamin Doyle for after all.

¹NZ Greens go full DARVO in protecting MP Benjamin Doyle and his dodgy Instagram account

² ‘I refuse to be disappeared by hate' - Green MP Benjamin Doyle responds to social media scrutiny