On 4/12/2016 7:34 p.m., Rich80105 wrote:
On Sun, 4 Dec 2016 04:28:17 -0000 (UTC), HitAnyKey
<nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
On Sun, 04 Dec 2016 15:36:30 +1300, Rich80105 wrote:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/property/87122221/david-slack-hold-my-
beer-while-i-fix-this-housing-crisis
A good summary of the situation.
We can have a government that is not a spectator - the voters of Mt
Roskill have shown the way.
You really are an insufferable git. I'm sure many would agree that Mr Key
got it about right when he said "If Andrew Little thinks victory is
holding a seat they've held for 40 years, that's good but I don't think
that makes a general election victory."
I am sure that there are many die-hard National supporters who will
indeed any post hoc opinion that spouts from John Key - but there will equally be many that agree with that well known lefty Audrey Young
(despite family links to National):
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11759981
"The Mt Roskill byelection victory is Andrew Little's victory.
The Labour leader has described the win as "a bloody nose for
National".
It is more like a bloody nose, a black eye and broken jaw.
National was comprehensively thrashed in a fight that had the
potential to run closer, given that National polled 2189 votes higher
than Labour in the party vote two years ago.
John Key campaigned just as hard, if not harder in the electorate,
because an upset result would have destabilised Little's leadership at
a critical time in the election cycle.
Key campaigned for seven days in the electorate, between earthquake management and international sumiteering in Peru.
Andrew Little was there for six days.
Little had a rough week with the defection of Nick Leggett to National
and some dubious polling results.
Credible polling still puts Labour in with a chance in a centre-left
bloc to lead the next Government but there has been nothing in Little repertoire until now that says "winner".
Even a close win in Mt Roskill would have been further fuel for a
Little destabilisation campaign.
Wood's emphatic win will transform the spirits of the party and the
general electorate over the summer break and Little's image as a
winner.
Since Little's own election as leader two years ago, Mt Roskill is his
first victory.
Labour did not campaign to win in the Northland byelection last year,
to give Winston Peters a better chance, which he won.
Byelections usually return the same party, but there have been enough
rogue results to never take them for granted.
In the 40 byelections that have been held in the past 60 years, seats
have changed parties six times - although only once in the nine
byelections since MMP 20 years ago: Peters in Northland (not counting
when the same MP wins their old seat under a new party such as Hone
Harawira going from Maori to Mana).
Michael Wood's majority of 6518 is all the more impressive because it
is not far off that of Phil Goff's majority last election of 8091.
It is a win he should savour personally but a win his leader
desperately needed. "
FFS dumbo it's only a 'victory' for tiny minded mindless marxist muppets
like you and angry Andy Rich. Hardly a 'bloody nose' for National as Mt
Roskill would vote for a pig if Labour tied a red ribbon around it's
neck. Hell the only fact in that unapologetic Labour support was that
angry Andy need the win!
The article could have been written by you Rich (that's supposing your
capable of using a spell checker). Though it may have been ghost written
for Audrey by Labour spin doctors :)
Pooh
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