Movember Challenge to other MPs: Bring it!

by Kevin Hague

Movember 1st dawns. Well, actually approaching the crack of noon as I write, but it’s more or less my day off. I’ve had my last thoughtless shave of the month. From now on it’s a question of carefully trimming around the luxuriant moustaches I will be cultivating. Actually, having done this a couple of times now, my experience is that there are usually a couple of false starts where early hard-won progress is wiped out by an early-morning brain on auto-pilot. Keen to avoid that.

So I’m back, and I’ve brought with me a team from the Green Party. Today I’m extending the challenge to all other MPs. We have a responsibilty to the nation, and last year’s effort was truly pathetic. Besides me Tim Macindoe took part and, by his own admission, the result was very Dick Van Dyke. The only other participant was Aaron Gilmore and . . . well my mother always said that if you can’t say something nice about someone you shouldn’t say anything at all. But think of a 6th former at an Al Capone-themed school ball.

Men’s health in New Zealand continues to be pretty shocking, and Movember does a great job of raising awareness about the issues as well as raising money for the great work being done by the Cancer Society on prostate cancer and the Mental Health Foundation on depression—both causes really well supporting.

So here’s the link to my personal page and one for our team page.