I did some street corner meetings in Corstorphine and Concord last night. Up on the hill above South Dunedin. Traditional working class, lots of state housing. Low income, struggling families. Elderly.
The day before a street corner meeting we leaflet the area to let people know we’re coming. So they are prepared when a politician turns up with a microphone on their corner.
Amazing crowds turned out to listen to me and I finished a lot later than I’d planned as people wanted to share their stories and ask advice and express their concerns about the effect of current government policies on them now and their fears for the future,
Then a woman called Fiona came up to me. In her 30s, on a stick. An injury and she’s battling with ACC over her eligibility. She said her daughter Gracia had made something for me. It’s the first time I’ve been given such a treasure. Gracia, aged 7 is highly politically aware and bamboozles her mother with the questions she asks. I had never met her or her mum before.
This is what Gracia gave me.
Take note John Key. She’s our future.
jem, isn’t Air New Zealand also an example of how private business doesn’t run as well as govt run, because we had to bail it out?
Do you accept that people can change their minds based on different circumstances, different information, evidence?
We have to do something drastic.
Suggest How about co leaders who have social ease and accessibility. Suggest Grant and Jacinta. With them who are great in their own right and firmly cut ties with the past.
The biggest problems are :
rural New Zealand . Anne Tolley gets back in Gisborne because she is National and the locals don’t care about National standards The rich send their kids to boarding school and the rest tolerate the situation
Keep it simple the bill boards were great but they came from the members The policy was too dense; If you can’t explain it in words of one syllable you don’t understand it youself
Don’t hurry the choice of the new leader[s] A bit of bo homie goes a long way