Teal foreign workers posting election posters on power poles caught on video abusing voters

“F…k off,” says the young man caught on camera. He and his buddy have European accents. They’re wheeling around corflutes for teal candidate Nicolette Boele and posting them to Ausgrid power poles, which is illegal, and the teals know it’s illegal.

But they’re doing it anyway, these men.

Tonight, for Boele in Sydney’s Bradfield. Days earlier it was for Allegra Spender in Wentworth.

Ostensibly paid to break the law, these foreign workers are not Climate 200 volunteers. They’re not teal voters.

They’re almost certainly non-citizens and in all likelihood they’re working for cash and couldn’t give a toss about the outcome of the May 3 election.

Confronted by local residents, they become belligerent and physically aggressive.

“What’s your problem?” one of them says to an elderly couple.

These residents have been filming and asking questions, but the scene is turning ugly.

An accomplice moves in and manhandles the mobile phone being used to film the interaction.

In a different video, a Frenchman says: “Do you want to fight?” His pal laughs, shakes his head and says: “You are actually making our evening interesting.”

Campaign posters on power poles in Bondi Junction. Picture: Supplied

Nicolette Boele

Paying people to break the law is surely a new low for the teals, having comprehensively rammed it down everyone’s throats that they’re lifting the standard of politics.

“People want to see politics done differently,” insisted Goldstein’s Zoe Daniel. “The public wants to see accountability and integrity,” said Zali Steggall. “You’ve told me you want more integrity in politics,” said Spender.

But here we not only have payments being provided for a “criminal act”, as it’s defined by the NSW Electoral Commission, but the Spender and Boele campaigns wouldn’t even respond to our questions about the employment status of these hired hands, how they were being paid, and whether these men were instructed to flout the rules on posting corflutes to power poles.

The poles are considered private property belonging to Ausgrid, majority owned by the taxpayer, and it’s Ausgrid’s resources that end up being used to take the corflutes down.

And it’s astounding that Boele and Spender would remain silent, given their professed commitment to transparency. There is literally an entire section of Spender’s website devoted to the issue, where every $10 donation to her campaign is compulsively, pointlessly listed, even though that’s not the transparency people give a damn about.

Spender bills herself as a white knight of integrity all while exhibiting howlingly poor errors of judgment that belong in the muck of the politics she claims to abhor.

Until a week ago Spender hadn’t disclosed her role in seven different companies. She paid for teal agitprop to be published by a social media influencer, but didn’t disclose the financial transaction between them.

The teals want so badly to be a part of the law-making machinery of this country but they’re picky about the rules they’d like to follow.

“All the candidates in Wentworth are putting corflutes on poles,” said Spender’s spokesman a few days ago, a level of arrogance and cavalier disregard for the rules that’s powering not just her campaign, but that of Boele and every other teal candidate running for office.

Because it’s also well organised, these nightly bill-posting missions. Same guys, same shoes, same hair, same goatee and stepladder.

Which is remarkable in itself, considering the teals keep telling us they’re a disparate group of budding independent candidates, each of them sui generis, not unified by any political party or brand.

And they say that with a straight face, all while receiving generous waterings of cash from Simon Holmes a Court and his Climate 200 mothership.