Post-Election
December 7th 2011 23:17
Jane Clifton writing in The New Zealand Listener on the state of things post-election:
So the left [Labour et al] has been far more successful at expanding its potential territory than the right [National]. Actually, let’s be even clearer about this: the right has been certifiably incompetent. So head-bashingly useless, in fact, that it ended up being accidentally saved by its worst enemies. Both John Banks [ACT] and Peter Dunne [United Future] should by now have written big smoochy thank-you cards to Winston, because he is the only reason they are in Parliament. Both were on course to lose their seats till the spectre of a rapidly fattening Winston forced National voters in Epsom and Ohariu to hold their noses and vote for the undeserving pair.
Winston is Winston Peters, who seemed to come out of nowhere after losing completely in the last election, and has now, under the MMP system managed to get around eight seats in Parliament!
So the left [Labour et al] has been far more successful at expanding its potential territory than the right [National]. Actually, let’s be even clearer about this: the right has been certifiably incompetent. So head-bashingly useless, in fact, that it ended up being accidentally saved by its worst enemies. Both John Banks [ACT] and Peter Dunne [United Future] should by now have written big smoochy thank-you cards to Winston, because he is the only reason they are in Parliament. Both were on course to lose their seats till the spectre of a rapidly fattening Winston forced National voters in Epsom and Ohariu to hold their noses and vote for the undeserving pair.
Winston is Winston Peters, who seemed to come out of nowhere after losing completely in the last election, and has now, under the MMP system managed to get around eight seats in Parliament!
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