Winston Peters says Labour leader Chris Hipkins "would get drunk on a wine biscuit", biting back after the Opposition leader's comment yesterday that Peters "behaves like a drunk uncle at a wedding".
The New Zealand First leader and Cabinet minister delivered his State of the Nation speech yesterday.
He took jabs at the previous government's "race-based theory", alluding to co-governance, "where some people's DNA... made them somehow better than others".
"I've seen that sort of philosophy before. I saw it in Nazi Germany, we all did," he told an approving crowd.
In response, Hipkins said: "Kiwis deserve better than a deputy prime minister who behaves like a drunk uncle at a wedding."
Today, the war of words has continued with a tweet from Peters.
He had a go at the previous government and current opposition.
"Chris Hipkins hid behind a press release yesterday and said that he was glad he 'ruled me out' before the election," he tweeted this morning. "Newsflash Chris.
"I publicly ruled out working with you and your woke Labour cronies twelve months before you stuttered the words.
"But you know that. And so do the media who have the temerity to repeat your stutter.
"PS. Your 'drunk uncle' comment is laughable coming from someone who would get drunk on a wine biscuit."
Peters finished with: "Keep the press releases coming."
The Prime Minister said Winston Peters’ reference to co-governance and Nazi Germany is not something he would say.
Yesterday, Peters also took a dig at the Green Party.
He said it is "hopelessly incompetent" and targeted "this latest [MP to leave Parliament] with a moko on her chin", alluding to Darleen Tana, who was suspended last week amid migrant exploitation allegations against her husband's business.
Hipkins said yesterday: "Same old Winston Peters. Using racism and anti-media rhetoric to divide our country. He should be focusing on the real work of leading New Zealand forward, but that would require a plan and a vision. Sadly, this government is lacking in both."
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