With John Banks court date due June/July and the possibility of a guilty verdict, Key could not have allowed month after month to pass by without the Parliamentary majority necessary to pass legislation so September 20th allows Key the opportunity to go early enough without the lame duck tag.
Here are the deadlines…
Current internal polling I have seen has Labour at 34 and Greens at 12 with National on 45. Despite what the mainstream media are claiming, this will be a razor close election.
Bring it on John Boy !
Dear Martyn,
Just wondering
When is Colin Craig and Russell Norman in court for Norman calling Craig a “homophobic misogynist”?
When s Colin Craig and Big Whaleoil in court for Whaleoil calling Craig a “pervie wierdo”?
Can you please put BOTH dates on your election calendar.
Also, 1 April: 9-day taxpayer-funded series of photo-ops begins
called it just about
This is going to be down to the wire. Now if the commerce commission come out and say there’s nothing doing vis a vis Shane Jones and Countdown, as the commerce commission isn’t actually there to promote competition or anything, Labours going to be a larfing stock. Hope they have a counterattack at the ready. Maybe “This goes to show that the Commerce Act needs an overhaul to deal to the tactics displayed by Countdown” ?
And off the back of increased winter power bills. Hope they have dollar figures that show how much Kiwis will be better off under Kiwi Power (weekly) as yearly figures mean zilch.
And off the back of soon to be released wage data and census data. Hope they all have their lickle duckies in a row so they can pop pop pop all the negative news down with what’s going to be different under Lab/Grn, then yeah!
Otherwise, I do unfortunately think that the sheeple will just tick for another three years of inept political and economic management under National while the ruling class sit back and chortle at the mass sell off under our feet.
Lets bring back a penalty to hang traitors. I would pay excellent cobblers to see English, Key, Joyce to sway in the breeze while magpies (another introduced import) peck at their entrails… do magpies even eat meat?
Magpies eat grubs and insects mostly. They will eat meat. I often watch them feeding in the park down the road. They seem to be able to hear big fat grass grubs under the ground. They hop around, stop, make a hole with their beaks and swallow fat white grubs. Imagining these are National MPs will make them even more appealing to watch.
And Labour – ffs realise we have MMP now and talk to Mana, the Greens, and maybe even WInston First. We’ve all got work to do and a new era begins.
So you are suggesting we kill members of the current administration?
Admittedly, a public hanging would be good for TV ratings.
I think “imagining” was Ovicula’s operative word, Andys, as I’m sure you well know.
A pubic hanging sounds a little tame to me; why not do an imaginative remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s film adaption of Daphne du Maurier’s story “The Birds”, starring the Mana magpies peeking out the Nat MPs myopic peepers?
ha ha well said…you can count me in there too..a front row seat will only do.
The polls the media keep churning out at opportune times for the government are yet another form of brainwashing not dissimilar to the saturation coverage of what a great ‘down home’ guy,but master of the economy, Key is.Tell people a lie often enough and they’ll start to believe it.
I have participated in one these polls and the questions are so loaded or ambiguous it renders the answers useless.But hey,” if we can get you to vote how we want you to vote ,or not vote at all, it’s job done for our pay masters.”Best indicator -the louder the shrill about how bad the opposition is, the better they are doing.
It’s certainly reached fever pitch lately, and that has given David Cunliffe a lot of confidence as evidenced by his upbeat manner.Compare that to Key who got his first little ‘tickle up’ ever in an interview on ‘The Nation’, and he looked like he’d seen a ghost.Confidence- not looking good.
This has sent the media into full on mouth frothing mode.Thank you media for showing such great transparency and guidance as to how the polls are looking.What would we do without you?
“What would we do without them?” We would have a better informed and fairer election, ironic huh. Our msm are a bunch of shallow fluff merchants. I’ve decided if I ever see Corrin Dann (what a girls name) Rawdon Christie or Paddy the troll I just might have to kick em in the nuts (if any of them have any).
Aren’t you forgetting something here Martyn?
Aren’t you forgetting NZFirst?
Have you forgotten that Winston Peters said he will go with the biggest party, and on all polling this is National.?
As an avowedly nationalist traditionalist party, NZF have refused to make a stand in defence of the current flag. An issue that would give NZF huge kudos with their mostly conservative, mostly elderly voter base. Don’t you think this strange?
Could it be that Winston Peters does not want to campaign against John Key’s plan to rebrand the country, in case it makes an accommodation with the Nats. impossible?
With New Zealand First support a National led government is a cert.
All the Left should be hammering home the point that a vote for Winston is a vote for National.
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