In this week’s Sunday Panel on RadioLive, Wallace Chapman, Selwyn Manning and Rodney Hide discuss:
- ACT Party leadership
- Is John Key the most popular New Zealand prime minister ever?
- The Kim Dotcom party, does it have a chance and will it prop up a National-led government?
- The Conservative Party leader Colin Craig is pushing to smacking children with force legal again. What’s the state of that?
ACT Party Contenders: Wallace Chapman, Rodney Hide and Selwyn Manning discuss the ACT Party leadership. Can ACT’s reformists take their party back from National’s conservatives?
John Key’s Popularity: Wallace Chapman, Rodney Hide and Selwyn Manning discuss whether John Key is now the most popular prime minister in New Zealand’s history.
Dotcom’s Party: Wallace Chapman, Rodney Hide and Selwyn Manning discuss the beginnings of Kim Dotcom’s Internet Party. Will Dotcom position his party to go with Labour and the Greens or will he create a support party for the centre-right, and if so why?
Colin Craig’s Smacking Solution: Wallace Chapman, Rodney Hide and Selwyn Manning discuss whether Conservative leader Colin Craig will gain support for his pro-smacking rhetoric?
Colin Craig says child abuse is rising under the anti-smacking law, his solution as Manning says is to legalise forceful smacking!
The Sunday Panel broadcasts live on RadioLive.co.nz 8-9am each Sunday.
Re Key and popularity …. and Manning’s comment “good luck and timing” (omiting of course a compliant MSM captured by all its commercialism and attempts to create rock stars).
If I ever see a scientific survey that clearly shows John Key is NZ’s most ‘popular’ PM – then I will be doing my utmost to leave the country permanently – because it’ll be a country that’s lost all sense of compassion, humility, concern for fellow person, egalitarian ideals etc. in favour of greed, unfettered competition in a rigged environment, and pursuit of the Almighty (US) $.
I’ll watch from abroad as Kiwis become increasingly trans-fatter, ugly in every sense of the word, more and more disengaged from social interaction and concern, and cynical of those that profess to represent them.
Christ! – If EVER there was an Emperor with no clothes, flabby, nock-kneed, pinochi-nosed, greed-is-good, lying-is-good, used-car-salesmanship-is good, fascism is good, utter-the-next-convenient platitude-in-order-to-disguise-the-last-piece-of-bullshit-is-good, spin-is-good, hero-worship-is-good, lies and manipulation are good, diversity is bad….. etc.etc, – that would then be NZ’s most popular.
I’d be happy to leave! Except I’m waiting to see where those 800k disaffected, disinterested, incarcerated, poverty-stricken, un-adequately-housed and struggling, alcohol/drug/any-form-of-escapism-soaked, children of average kiwis, (ALL of whom are aspriational of course) electorate block stand.
The clock’s ticking
Actually – I could just pull a Natzi, and contest what the meaning of ‘popular’ and ‘popularity’ is – kind of like a Key/Sackur type moment and pretend we’re all tickety-boo and 100%
Interesting session, thanks for posting this Selwyn
Agreed, AndyS, a fascinating listen to current events. Always something new to learn…
You would have to be a hard drug taker, to think that New Zealand First will not go with the National Party.
On the make up of the next most likely government; Rodney Hide and Selwyn Manning give their view.
7:10 minutes. Selwyn Manning; “New Zealand First is going to be National’s partner here, if they are going to get over the line. And what that means for the National Party’s groups like the Sikh communities, the Asian communities, those from South East Asia, are they going to be tolerant of that? knowing that in the next government it’s mo…………(audio failure)…….it’s likely to be New Zealand First and the National Party”
Every single political commentator, whether of the Left or the Right is of the same opinion.
Rodney Hide predicts that John Key will not work with Winston Peters because of the damage it would do to his reputation. But Hide says that the National Party will work with Peters.
This means that after the election John Key will be standing down as the National Party Leader to be replaced by his grim hard Right deputy Bill English.
7:36 minutes. Rodney Hide; “Can I make a prediction here? I will make a bold prediction, I reckon, John Key’s going to rule Winston out.”
8:00 minutes. Rodney Hide; “John Key is pretty smart, we all accept that, he’s watched what Winston has done to other Prime Ministers, he has had a great run. I think he knows that if he went into government in a third term with Winston, it would wreck John Key. And wreck his reputation. And I think he might be saying….
I think the National Party, will get into bed with Winston, but I don’t believe John Key would.”
If Hide is right. We could quite possibly be witnessing the gestation of the most ruthless, the most nakedly Right Wing, and most racist administration of our lifetime.
The take home message here is; If you want a change of government, Don’t vote New Zealand First.
So here we have it. John Key said today: “In 2008 we ruled them out because we were unable to reconcile some of their statements on the Glenn donation matter. Six years has passed and, should New Zealand First be returned to Parliament, we would not rule out a discussion after the election.”
See Key’s statement on LiveNews.co.nz.
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