The Right wing in conjunction with the right wing corporate media are desperately spinning a line that National won the election.
That is a total fabrication.
Here are the facts…
The specials counted in 2 weeks will give Labour + Greens an extra MP each, which would change the NZF-Lab-Green majority from 61 to 63.
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61 is a bare majority which doesn’t provide stability, but 63 is a working majority. This election isn’t over yet, but right wing spin doctors and their media enablers will do everything to create the sense that NZ voters have been cheated when the Labour-NZ First-Green Government get announced.
+100 great Post
Its not he who votes that counts but he whom counts em.
Briliance Martyn.
Garner and co with Paula Bennett were celibrating “a great result” National got!!!!
UUUUUUUMMMMMMMMM — NoNoNo.
Pack your bags national “we have had enough”
National and NZ First have the moral victory here and I’d be happy for ACT to stay out of this until needed. ACT can work with National and NZ First if there is a cross-the-floor rogue MP in there somewhere, or a scandal that may harm the moral majority. Failing that, ACT could provide an unbiased Speaker of the House.
And maybe we can get a referendum on changing the flag again as a bottom line for National? The coque up with the last referendum was caused by NZ’s females’ distrust of hair-puller John Key. With Bill at the helm, who gained more share of the vote than Sir John Key, the time is right for another crack at a better flag – especially with Paul Henry out of the picture as well.
Im assuming this is sarcasm
I don’t think your correct placing the TOP support in the red Martyn. They belong in the blue just below ACT.
D J S
Yes – TOP are neoliberal (look at their policies, not the spin). Just ACT with purer conviction (so in the end good for them – if you like neoliberalism of course).
Morgan’s comments about the Greens considering governing with National make it clear he’s not a left partisan. But a large chunk of TOP’s policies were borrowed from the Greens, and contrast strongly with the NatACT policies of the last 3 terms, so they’re not right partisans either. I would place TOP in the centre, with the Māori Party.
That said, I have family members who voted for TOP as a vote against the NatACTs, and I doubt anyone voted for them expecting them to keep a NatACT government in power. Either way, the graph Bomber shared here shows a clear swing away from the centre-right, and towards the centre-left. The claims that this election was a win for the NatACT-UF-Māori government are blatant lies and belong down an $11.7bn hole.
I have seen preliminary party vote figures on stuff that indicate Labour’s party vote was well up in most electorates, rather surprisingly it was largely in rural electorates.
The final results could be very interesting.
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