Some seem bewildered by Matthew Hooton’s constant attack on Key and Joyce…
…there should be no bewilderment. Hooton’s attack isn’t some ideological rampage by the moral Shepard of the Right, Hoots is getting the bash in because he is trying to damage the current leadership within National to promote his protege and friend Simon Bridges up the Game of Thrones.
The Northland by-election result has rocked National to the core. Winston has managed to become the voice of the provinces and allows rural and provincial National voters who have seen nothing of the Rock Star economy to vote for the Opposition but whom don’t identify with Labour or the Greens.
This new found power for Winston is bad news for the Greens and progressive voters because Labour are so desperate for the middle that they will give Winston whatever he wants.
The threshold for a Labour-NZ First policy platform will be ideas that don’t intellectually intimidate the middle the way soy lattes do.
With that momentum, Hooton is smart enough to see National are in danger and is stirring so he can promote Bridges. To date Key’s vacant aspiration has been electorally attractive enough to keep National from tearing itself to shreds, that vacant aspiration however is no insolation to poverty and that poverty is making National voters switch votes.
Simon Bridges… I probably find him more offensive than John Key… And I despise John Key and all he stands for!
Agreed. Bridges is the party hack for party hacks. The new Tony Ryall. NZ’s Ted Cruz.
The thing is Bridges just comes over as a bit of a weiner, I can’t understand why anyone would back him.
I know he’s good looking but as soon as he opens his mouth he just sounds like a dweeb. I thought you needed to be a bit more macho than that to have credibility in NZ
As Bridges would say, “Quite frankly, you’ve had a whole blog post, bagging me, and bagging the oil industries I represent. Quite Frankly – No No, LISTEN, I get to talk as well! Quite frankly, this is a bloody greenie smear campaign!”
Simon Broken-Bridges would be a good successor to Donkey 😛 hahaha
Gotta’ hand it to the Natz. Over the years they’ve perfected the art of having some of the most uninspiring, offensive-to-the-intellect, seemingly unelectable leaders and, what’s more, getting into government with ’em!!
I must be thick! I can’t understand why MH’s views or opinions matter to anyone!???
So far the talk has been about one faction promoting Collins and now we have the possibility of Bridges as the Nat leader and (they hope) PM.
When you look into the cesspit some turds are more noticeable than others. The notion of either of those being the Prime Minister of New Zealand is not even moderated by the fact that we have had John Key.
Hell’s bells and buckets of blood! It’s rather like a choice between Stalin or Hitler except in this case neither twit can pronounce English properly. Please, someone put a “contract” out on these gibbons…
Hoots is right to point the anger at Steven Joyce as he is among the most hated and feared Politicians in NZ currently.
In fact many we speak to actually call him the most dangerous man in NZ.
I have said it time and time again, Joyce is a seriously critical piece of Key’s henchmen with his prowess in broadcasting from his 1060’s radio network to now being involved in all media vehicles.
He is a modern equivalent of Joseph Goebbels was Hitler’s right hand man and Joyce is Key’s right hand man.
We are continually bombarded with Steven Joyce’s Media network of continual propaganda about our “rock star economy” as we loose more and more of the country to foreigners control.
Yes He is a repugnant man and we saw his hidden bully like mind when he was up against David Parker during the election debates, where Joyce made an absolute idiot of himself as he banged the table and talked loudly over everyone in the studio that day we saw the bully and raving idiot he really is, and Simon Bridges had better mellow out and be more human and definitely he distance & desert the Joyce/Key staunch Hitler like approach entirely.
Good to see Hooten come to his senses we do hope he now opens up to join with us as we expose the truth out there.
I did see Hooten open up opnce before and Miscelle Boag was towering over Hoots like another Joyce character telling Hooten to get back in line during a debate on when money was taken from some transport spend in HB/Gisborne as a insider deal over arranging a phoney tender for a roadwarks contact was being handled by Joyce, and found out by Matthew Hooten.
Martyn, do you remember that Radio NZ video clip during the pre elections stuff?
Matthew attacked Boag here 20 days before the election also.
Someone attempted to burn Matthews house down also he says here then.
http://www.thepaepae.com/matthew-hootons-assertions-re-the-prime-ministers-office/35076/#more-35076
Simon Bridges backed by Hooton, wow? So do you take turns on top?
Perhaps the Hoots is bagging the Natsies and dear leader, because he is considering starting up a right wing political party of his own! He could always have the vicious wimp Bridges in the top job.
Key might be falling foul of Hooton, but he’s still got a good buddy in Mike Hosking, judging by the BS he has written in today’s NZ Herald.
Nothing but propaganda promoting Key’s rancid Natsy machine and the filthy effluent stench that keeps it afloat! In fact I’d call it a new low for Hosking and just when I thought he couldn’t get much lower, he comes up with this drivel!
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=11429673
Gee Mary I don’t want to throw up again watching the NatZ rotting carcass dribbling with excuses and greasy lies so I will take your word for it as you are always right on the button.
Why the endless sub-tribal attacks on Labour? What exactly would you like them to do that would earn your approbation? Trash middle New Zealand? I thought that was your niche. A good way to stay out of power for a serious party.
There are several possible strands to a Left agenda. The first involves the belief that governmental intervention can make a positive difference to the quality of life in the country. This is combined with the goal of assisting as wide a section of society as possible to achieve a satisfactory lifestyle. This is underpinned by a desire to perform this task with as little interference as possible in the day to day existence of citizens.
Another strand of opinion holds that only with constant and firm intervention, sometimes punitive, prescriptive and controlling, can a better outcome be achieved.
I suspect that your concept of a more Left-leaning approach may wander closer to the latter. Otherwise you would have little problem with the somewhat cautious approach of Andrew Little as he tries to divine how far the country can be persuaded to go to redress some of the imbalances created over the past several years.
I detect little appetite for a centralized command economy in New Zealand at present, do you? However in my view the country might be persuaded to experiment with the former approach. Is this a craven sell-out in your book?
What about a few more policy suggestions (cost – benefit analysed and credible, for preference, but just credible would be fine).
It is all a side show – when people wake up to what is happening, only then will they realise the only future is a green one – and the sooner we can get some political movement on sustainable policies, the sooner we will build resilience for the future. Did you know that just last week, the law was amended to allow power companies to increase their prices to make up for any of their losses due to consumers saving electricity eg using LED lights, or switching to renewables. Instead they should be encouraged to get on board with consumers and together build for the future. After all, we are all in this together.
1000% ROSS GOOD CALL.
to redress some of the imbalances created over the past several years….well well well… several years ..where have you been, this trash talk about the middle ground has for the last 30 years been adhered too by those that think they know.. what has it got for NZ ..2 political parties significantly big enough to biff the others out of the sandpit or control entry, all the time jousting to see who can be the darkest blue party on the ballot paper
My vote for new leader of the National would be Judith Collins. I’ve said it before – anyone that has had the amount of vitriole from her opponents and it runs off like milk off a duck’s back has got to be good for National. Quite frankly Bridges would be a great deputy leader of the natz.
Come to think of it, why not bring back Michelle Boag, John Slater, Aaron Gilmore, Rainbow Williamson and Don Brash. Maori Party and Greens have co-leaders – National could start a trend and have a “leadership group”, like the ‘All Blecks’.
Dear Leader John Key does have a striking resemblance to Richie McCaw if you turn out the lights and listen to them speak. The Leadership group could perfect the 8-way handshake…priceless.
I like reading Hooton’s views …. but Simon Bridges? really??
This is the same lightweight who proved incapable of mastering the energy portfolio – and proved himself so inept at taking on the Labour/Greens stalinist energy policy, he was taken off the job by the Nats in a great hurry – and the same guy who marshalled the bridges-to-nowhere bribe calamity before the Northland by-election. Good grief…
Hehehehehe…..Simon Bridges…..L0L !!!
C’mon……in all seriousness? ….the guy who would be better off as front man for the screaming meemee’s?
The Troll from Tauranga with the Terrible Two’s Tantrum debating style???
By all means- please yes !!!
It will be not only the end of Key but also the ass end of any national party govt we will see for a very , very , long , long time.
So I endorse Hootens fine choice . A sterling horse to back. Couldn’t have chosen a better one.
Too bad the farrier was incompetent and the horse wears its shoes backwards , though .
All of a sudden I feel like placing a bet.
And it wont be on Bridges.
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