The latest numbers from the early voting for the Auckland Mayoralty and Council are in and the good news is that the numbers did jump by their highest margin since voting opened, the bad news is that it’s been so lacklustre we are still staring down the barrel of the lowest voter turn out in a decade.
Here’s what Auckland Mayoralty returns look like compared with last 3 elections:
2010 – 18%
2013 – 10.8%
2016 – 13.17%
2019 – 9.8%
If todays sudden climb is indicative of an Auckland waking up we may beat 2013s lowest turn out, but if it’s just a blip, we could be grazing a mere 30% turn out.
Oh, sweet baby cheeses. If I read ONE MORE candidate’s profile advocating growth as a panacea………….
Truly…….if this is the limit of their thinking, then please come Blessed climate change and wipe us all away.
FFS!
Signed,
“Typical Exasperated Voter”
+1 Jase
Or worse, they advocate selling off assets (Tamihere) and more taxes like petrol taxes (Goff) for the rate payers to pay for their vision of growth!
More growth, equals more people, equals more cars, equals more sewerage, equals more pollution!
Also equals less housing and less wages for the future for more people.
yep, it’s $8 p/h cash apparently in South Auckland, so you get your benefit, and then take the ‘cash’ job in the factory… That’s if you are a permanent resident already, if you are not, then it’s $50k for the fake job on $2 p/h or $50k for the fake degree ($20k accomodation, $20k student fees, $10k living costs)…
Who can believe that is the vision of the future of Auckland and NZ from the neoliberals!
the UK is in the same shit as is America. What have they in common?
They were the bell wethers of neoliberal capitalism and from the the bacilus spread like fire through dry grass.
“Oh, sweet baby cheeses. If I read ONE MORE candidate’s profile advocating growth as a panacea………….”
🙂
They’re probably ‘passionate’ about it too! (As in they have ” intense feelings of sexual love” about it.)
It helps to have a good bullshit detector when voting in local body elections. Just start with the biggest bullshit artist and work your way backwards. And don’t feel any pity for them – they’ll soon find alternative employment as a used car salesman
It shows, the voters dont want to vote for either of the 2 frontrunners. And the major tv and radio press have excluded the rest from any possibility of the public seeing them or their policies.
Pretend Tauranga council election billboard goes viral as Kiwis praise ‘honest campaign’
“A joke billboard featuring a pretend council election candidate has gone viral thanks to the catchphrase “I’ll do my best but I can’t promise anything” – and a photo of a bloke asleep on a couch.
Mark Sheaff has gate-crashed the Tauranga local elections, earning praise for a humorous take on candidate billboards.”
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12272523
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