Crushing victory gifted by Winston, not by the bulk of the voters. Big big difference. He won't be around to save her/Labour next time. Greens might go under too. FPP styled election on the way soon.
English offered him next to nothing as English has integrity and did not sell his soul for power. Opposition was probably a much better choice this time, as National would have lost the next one. Good chance of a one term govt, hence the very undemocratic ...
Thankfully though, NZ First are already under the required threshold and will be outed at the next election. You just can't fool all of the people all of the time. And as though Labour didn't offer him everything and anything it took to grab power. Such ...
And by throwing tons of money, willy nilly, poverdy just vanishes does it? Yeah, nah. It's this govt who tells porkies and lies and does backflips, especially when it comes to all their outlandish promises. In the House today, National owned them, again. ...
Many bitter comments. Suck it up, it's the govt most of you wanted.
oh, the hypocrisy! Winston, please do PM for most of the three year term, you lovely old duffer. Our first Maori PM, too, wow, I remember predicting that. So very exciting. Legacy and Knighthood in one. Bring it on, I can't wait. Wait till the House sits ...
Facebook is for numpties. Also all the pollies FB pages are completely one-way, what is the point!! It's like conversations with no one.
Just decided that he is a great candidate for PM, he has conservative values, was a lawyer (won't hold that against him!) and that he will make a better PM than anyone else on the Labour front bench or in their entire caucus. I wouldn't be surprised if he ...
Winston will be attending in 2019 as our PM, this is highly likely. I am actually quite pleased he is going to be PM, it is the one role he will be good at and at last some pre election promises will finally be rolled out. We will have a conservative PM, ...
Bill English and National also always attended, especially John Key. Why is this a big deal. Our PM's are expected to attend, and they should, even if often it ends up a fracas. New Zealand day is well overdue, as we are now multi-cultural...or so we are ...
So, hard left people are better, are they? All men were created equal, were they not.
Labour want to have their cake and eat it too, again.
Yes, but he was endorsed by the majority at the last election. English received roughly 200,000 more votes than Ardern. There's the endorsement. Not his fault we have a cockaninny electoral system that allowed one man to choose between red and blue, ...
It's a bit sad if the country votes in a PM or not due to whether they have babies/kids, rather than what the issues are! Will be old news by then, or maybe BIll could have another babe also, lol.
I am happy for Ardern and her baby, I never said I wasn't. Good for her. I just don't think someone with five percent of the vote should be PM, for any length of time. Obviously Labour must have promised him this, something that National never would, and ...
Yep. got it in one. Once she has the baby she won't want to leave him/her, once all those maternal emotions come into play. Very lovely news for Arden, exciting, good for her. Winston Peters will have his dream job, at five percent of the vote, omg, now it...
They outpolled Labour, the other major party. Therefore more people wanted National than Labour. Our convention has always been the highest polling party is govt. In fact, National outpolled both Labour and the Greens. How is it possibly democratic that ...
He's broken every promise so far. He doesn't care about mandates, only baubles and power. He gained votes by those lies, and he also implied pre-election that he was going with National. But silver cloud, always, he won't be any sort of 'maker' again! A ...
The difference being, Muttonbird, is that National also won that election, therefore a National govt was also then what the majority wanted, but Act did not have National over a barrel as Winston did with both Labour and National this time. He called all ...
yeah, and I gladly admit that. So I was suckered, like the rest of NZ First Voters, or at least half of them. We all make mistakes! It would be funny if it wasn't so very bad for the country. The scoundrel lied. Bye bye Kingmaker.
When you have one small party with barely seven percent of the vote and no electorate seat being in the position of choosing the govt (and having one hundred percent of the power over the two large partys who both polled in double digit figures), then ...
Got it in one, yes I did. So what. He promised to go with the party who polled highest!! He has lied about everything since, and delivered nothing. However, he won't be there next time, lol. Even my partner did, oh us trusting souls, lol. Never ever again ...
Of course Ardern is a H1 and H2 puppet, with Winston also in charge. Obvious from the start. Every time Ardern was asked a hard question all we heard about were 'conversations and committees.' Lightweight as, Bill sledged her in all the debates, even ...
Totally agree with Shona. New Zealand should be for New Zealanders, not refugees from the world's many shithole dumps. National lost votes because of their daft mass immigration policy (including mine), and Labour and co will do so also, if they insist on ...
Try juggling children, school, work and trains! Not a good mix. Love my car, love our roads, Auckland is far too big not to have decent roads and highways, just ask any working Mum or Dad, with children, and Melbourne has a far better train system than we ...
Not when the storms hit and caused huge chaos, they weren't. Days and days ago. You really get angry, don't you.
Having had a job in Mt Wellington, I would not have survived getting there via train from West Auckland. Auckland is too big and spread out not to have good roads, and these days, you have to travel miles for jobs. Gone are the days when good jobs could be...
Yes, and it broke down that day. A few months back, en route to Glen Eden from New Lynn, they often do.
We will get more useless trains, decades old, from China. Go Judith, and thank you for commenting on the recent storms, no one from the new govt bothered. Must all be too busy on holiday trips..
They won't. I saw it in the crystal ball. Winston is toast right now, so National will romp home, alone! The COL a one hit wonder, will go down in history as just that, as Prebble so rightly predicted. Prebble. A Labour man! A non-elected government will ...
Thanks for the heads up. At least their govt is properly elected, and the first choice of the majority of the people. Going to try our luck anyway, don't want to see first hand as National's fantastic country and economy gets decimated by a group of ...
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