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2:40 pm, June 19th, 2015 - 40 comments
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From twitter:
BREAKING: Conservatives leader Colin Craig is to resign this afternoom, an inside source has confirmed to Radio Live
— Newshub (@NewshubNZ) June 19, 2015
Earlier today …
After a sauna interview, the heat's on Colin Craig, but he says he still has the numbers http://t.co/Qr6jkgwklH pic.twitter.com/eJL54FIjZ7
— Stuff.co.nz Politics (@NZStuffPolitics) June 18, 2015
Update …
Meanwhile, if i tell you who's being rumoured as Colin Craig's replacement you will lose. your. shit. I promise.
— stories from the city (@mizjwilliams) June 19, 2015
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Yep…There is no coming back for him.
so not McVicar then?
Vote delayed and he promised to forgive all his loans to the party …
Get the feeling he is trying to negotiate a way to hang on?
Keeping them happy so they will stay with the sauna story rather than other reasons for kicking him out.
David Garrett
BUWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
A bit of confusion in the media. RNZ says he’s resigned, Stuff’s headline says that too, but the actual story says ‘offers to resign”. The Herald also says “offers to resign”.
Hopefully it’ll be Garth McVicious who replaces him. He should be able to keep them sucking 3 or 4% off National’s vote. But, but … Maurice Williamson, anyone?
I’m with Puckish Rogue, williamson might be tilting at Mayoralty.
McVicar’s myth fuelled “we’re all in danger – we’re going to be murdered in our beds” could dent ACT… and Nationali
Maybe Tamaki or Lewis doing a christian coalition?
Or maybe KDC is their new
funderleader, having found jesus?ELVIS!!!!!!
BRASH !!!???
Cam Slater?
Mark Weldon With Deputy Glucina.
Matthew Hooton with deputy Mike Williams?
cruel.
The above suggestions show well enough that very few people in NZ have the faintest idea what a Conservative stands for.
Such a narrow political spectrum its ridiculous. I guess that’s what happens on small islands.
You do realise they’re mostly jokes right?
Conservative stands for upending and revolutionising the social and economic order of the nation. In other words, everything that isn’t “Conservative”.
few people in NZ have the faintest idea what a Conservative stands for.
Boo hoo, no true Scotsman, sob sob.
A true Conservative believes whatever Dear Leader tells them to: that’s the actual behaviour, despite Bedwetter’s querulous protests.
~tau henare
~deputy josie pagani
Redbaiter
You mean Elvis won’t be the new leader? Oh, how disappointing
At least they would get better funding that the labour party. Williams and his shakedowns are legendary…..
Cam? look good in the sauna? Not!
Darth McFuckingVicar; that would be simply horrendous
Why is it even an issue here. The CP are not even in the House. Christine Rankin will make a great leader, her or McVicor. Common sense and true blue values!! Don’t you see the cesspit NZ now is??
Yes, we do see the cesspit that NZ has become under the policies and leadership types that you favour.
I would hardly call a place where people enjoy the freedom to express themselves sexually a ‘cesspit’. Quite the opposite.
But if Rankin and McVicar had their way, homosexuals would be locked up, and single mothers publicly shamed.
Among other things.
Just musing here, but I have a terrible feeling that it wasn’t the sauna interview itself that was the issue. Could it be that being in a sauna with a gay man was the real problem?
I’ve been assuming it’s a discomfit with two men together thing (rather than the Crazy Colin thing). Probably doesn’t even matter if the other man was gay or not, I’m sure it looked way too homoerotic for the CP.
TRP -No but a sauna with Ms Rankin? Now that’s a problem-
so isn’t he allowed to be gay now?
He can knock himself out and be what he wants. As long as his party agrees.
Who? And why?
Graham Capill for a comeback?
On WhaleOil, he shows the ‘sauna interview’ is just a smokescreen. It never made any real sense to me, having watched the interview, what was so objectionable about it.
Turns out he [deleted. Actual proof is required and the statement is otherwise clearly defamatory – MS] to the board about it.
http://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2015/06/exclusive-the-poem-colin-craig-doesnt-want-you-to-see/
http://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2015/06/random-impertinent-questions-30/
and some interesting comments some in verse
the donotlinks
http://www.donotlink.com/flt2
http://www.donotlink.com/flt3
Red, you can’t reason with the respondents here, leftie la la land!
Neither of you has said anything reasonable yet. I wait with bated breath
Who was this person?
Surely whoever it was will now have more time to spend with his money, family, God, and so on. We should all be very happy for him.
And they can hardly find anyone more fatuous??? Oh wait, what was that bizarre blonde’s name again?
Stringer seems to have been fronting the media for the formerly CCCP – hard to imagine anyone with less credibility, but I’m sure the conservatives will find someone.
I’m not too keen on Craig’s end of the political spectrum, but the moonlandings/chemtrails were pretty much a beat up – nothing really to do with him or his party – just a natural prudence about swearing to things he never saw.
Craig spent mostly his own money trying to get elected – which makes him about 1000 times less corrupt than the Gnats – why Key didn’t support him I guess.
Banks might be the next one in – cleaner than Key, no troublesome ambitions or principles, and will stay bought (if bought by the Gnats).