No Len. No.
Len’s desire to get on with what the people of Auckland want is one thing, pretending that he can waltz his way to a 3rd term is just delusional.
I think Len’s desires as expressed in the NZ Herald that he wants a 3rd term as Mayor come across as completely out of touch.
Len has his position because the majority of his supporters don’t want to have to go through another election, and there is a deep resentment at having to play to the tune Cameron Slater is playing, especially when so many figures in the right seemed to be deeply involved in this.
The people of Auckland may well forgive these indiscretions and the fanatical manner Len’s detractors have gone by taking a private prosecution against him seem needlessly cruel rather than genuinely valid and leaves a bad taste in everyones mouth, but voters won’t forget the responsibility of Len’s actions rest with Len and I simply can’t see any way there won’t be a series challenge by another Left candidate for the job when the SuperCity Mayoralty race comes around again.
We want Len to start leading and to see this term out, but talk of a 3rd term doesn’t help voters feel he understands how let down Aucklanders are with him.
Last paragraph sums it up perfectly.
Precisely.
Brown should not confuse the Left’s antipathy to Slater and Palino’s dirty dealings with support for his mayoralty.
He is there under sufferance.
He may well find any left wing support at the next local body election to be next to non-existent.
I am beginning to doubt the sanity of Mr Brown. I can’t see how standing for a 3rd term would achieve anything but gift the Mayoralty to a candidate chosen by NAct. Of course, maybe he really is deep into Blairite 3rd way Rogernomic rubbish and doesn’t see the difference.
I am afraid that Len has been somewhat “delusional” for some time. He lives in another sphere altogether, and that is a real worry. But I decided some time ago, that Auckland could do with a more down to earth, more integre and truly inclusive kind of Mayor at the helm. The main problem is, the skilled, qualified and sufficiently experienced “talent” is limited and not that easy to find. And that is an even greater worry.
As feared, I see that at present Auckland City is a bit “rudderless” and navigating in dangerous territory, moving nowhere that is clear. Nothing much will happen before the general election now.
Delusional and arrogant sums him up, fancy even putting forward this notion. Anyway anyone on the left who voted for him needs their head seen to! The man is not on the left he is in cahoots with business and what it wants in the main.
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