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It's easy to act with integrity most of the time because nothing out of the ordinary needs to be done; just ambling along through life will generally speaking let you stay on the right side of the line.
The test comes when something special happens. For example, where you can take advantage of another without them likely finding out. Of course nobody should do this because such an action puts you in the bad-person camp.
Political parties get the integrity test more often than ordinary people simply because they're involved in far more things than ordinary people are i.e. exposure to more events means more events that matter come up. labour seem to make a habit of failing the integrity test. For example, not so long ago we saw them comparing increases in gross wage inflation in a situation when they knew two things: First, that the comparison they were making only made send if done on a net-of-tax basis (and the result on this basis was the opposite of what they were claiming). Second, that most people aren't good at mathematics and thus were likely to be fooled by labour's lie. The intent here was to mislead good honest people into believing a significant bare-faced lie that itself was told purely for electioneering purposes.
Now we see that same integrity test being failed again. Here we have their union buddies exploiting the naivety of a group of people who wanted to express their view on a matter to harvest contact details of people who might be swayed to vote for labour.
On one level labour could win the election. It's normal position is not that different to National. The lefties love them for being a left party. But there in lies the problem - they just keep on telling porkies. Labour is a centre party (most of the time) that seem to be positioning itself as the party that will lie through their teeth every chance they get. This is a bizarre electioneering position to take. The top echelon of that party is obviously going to need to go and they'll spend six years starting again - not that they look in any rush to actually start.
No matter though - the other centre party will keep the keel straight.
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