Comments on: Epsom nats gunning for Hide

By: Clint

Clint — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:57:03 +0000

How revisionist of you Trev!

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:10:21 +0000

and a government who want to control Local Government from the Beehive

You say that like it’s a bad thing. If Local Govt’s across the country were only as incompetent as Central, then you might have a point.

By: TopCat

TopCat — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:54:49 +0000

Who cares, let them fight each other over the spoils- that part of Auckland is so overrated as a place to live and gets way too much attention.

Let’s worry about the other 90% of Auckland who are about to come under the mercy of a giant bureaucracy who play their own brand of politics, appointed CCO Boards and a government who want to control Local Government from the Beehive.

How about encouraging the general populace to say ‘rack off’ to those Narciscistic Remeura Waste of Spaces who want to tell us how to live.

By: jennifer

jennifer — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:40:49 +0000

Stuart, another factor in the Epsom decision may well be the need for the Nats to distance themselves from the super city, with the true horror of Hide’s crazy plan revealed by late 2011. And not just Epsom, the C&R ‘nats in drag’ on the Auckland Council and possibly in the Mayoral chair will need a scapegoat too, as the super city unravels beneath them. Bye bye Rortney.

By: Clint

Clint — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:14:50 +0000

I like it when Labour MPs put together little snippets of fact and then write their own story in between. Aaron had his own reasons for leaving ACT, Cactus and Chris are in a far better position than you are Trev.

Balance deleted for stupidity Trevor

By: peteremcc

peteremcc — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:17:31 +0000

On thread or off blog Trevor

By: MP_Labour

MP_Labour — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:34:46 +0000

There is a way around this. And here’s how it goes.

LPG (Labour Greens Progressive) want Rodney gone. There’s no two ways about it. So I have got a suggestion for the Epsom LEC (and henceforth GEC and PEC). Don’t stand candidates in the next election for Epsom. Instead, give your party vote to either L or P or G, and give your candidate vote to the Nat candidate. To be fair, the Labour candidate would never win Epsom, the National person could. With the LPG votes going to the National guy (or girl), plus National’s own votes, Rodney will be gone.

By: Stuart Nash

Stuart Nash — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:19:52 +0000

Don’t know if Aaron is the man the Nats will stand, but as someone who has stood in the electorate before, it is worth noting that the voters in Epsom are not stupid – Labour got 10k party votes in 2005.! That election Hide won rather easily but picked up about 2% party vote in the electorate. It is the richest electorate in the country and tops the tables on many socio-economic factors. The Nats were never serious in standing Worth in 2008 (or even 2005), but if they do get serious and put up a worthwhile, high profile candidate, thereby signalling to their constituency that they want the seat back, then they will win it back easily. When door knocking in 2005 so many people told me that they never saw Richard Worth, so he wasn’t particularly highly thought of as a local MP. Trevor is right – for 5 or more, they will stand by ACT, but for one or two – they will cut Hide – and ACT loose.

By: Anne

Anne — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:57:15 +0000

Howdy Spud.

By: Spud

Spud — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:18:07 +0000

Hi Anne