9 weeks till NZ election – what does the political landscape look like?

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So we are now 9 weeks until the 2020 NZ Election due on September 19th. The pandemic has generated an unforeseen unprecedented universal event that has generated a solidarity  and a genuine gratitude of Jacinda’s leadership which is translating into political loyalty. That loyalty is being tested however by a resurgent National Party led by a toxic politician like Judith Collins who if elected would usher in a Government of Dirty Politics.

• August 6: The House will rise

• August 12: Parliament will be dissolved

• September 2: Overseas voting starts

• September 5: Advance voting starts

• September 18: Advance voting ends and all election and referendum advertising must cease the night before election day with signs taken down by midnight.

• September 19: Voting places will open from 9am until 7pm that night when election results will be released progressively.

• October 2: Preliminary results for referendum votes on cannabis and end of life choice will be released.

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• October 9: Official results including special votes for the 2020 General Election and referendums declared.

LABOUR: Prediction 45%-50%

The complacency of a Muller leadership must be replaced with genuine shock and horror at someone as toxic as Judith Collins becoming Prime Minister.

This election goes from rewarding Jacinda for her leadership through the terrorism, volcanism and pandemic, this election is now about stopping someone as dangerous as Crusher becoming PM and that means EVERY option of keeping Judith out of power must be on the table.

If the Greens and NZF look like they are slipping beneath 5%, then deals must be made in Northland and Auckland Central, the prospect of Crusher Collins as Prime Minister, highly unlikely as that is, can not be tolerated.

Labour have no choice but to fight back with policy that will actually fix problems rather than simply manage them.

National builds roads.
Labour builds a Nation.

That must be the message Labour takes to the people in September.

 

NATIONAL: Prediction 35%+

In their moment of desperation and fear, National have selected a politician they can’t control.

Crusher has sold a softer image of herself, but it’s just shallow re-branding. The truth is that she is the dirty politics player she has always been. Malice, spite and divisiveness, that’s what is her political DNA so expect a campaign where she won’t be able to help herself.

It won’t be the policy that offends, as it will be made so loophole ridden National can define it any way they like, it will be Judith who won’t be able to help herself.

The millisecond she loses the election, she will be dumped as leader, so she knows this is her one and only chance and that will in of itself create a pressure where she won’t be able to help herself but go back to the dirty politics she is infamously known for.

 

NZ FIRST: Prediction 4% + 1 electorate

Winston held his party launch in Auckland yesterday and his speech was interesting but not an election winner. The most extraordinary thing he had to say was to double down on Oranga Tamariki child uplifts! Sweet Christ, of all the issues to champion????

Winston is busy in his speech fighting 20 year old battles – it seems desperate and I can’t see them gaining 5% off the back of this.

Which means Shane’s run in Northland is crucial. The inclusion of the Brexit Dirty Politics team might inadvertently spark the angry white male vote via micro targeting adverts on Facebook, but the bile they will inadvertently release  will become too politically noxious for the Greens and Labour to tolerate so could ultimately force Winston with no where else to go but National & ACT.

Now there’s a terrifying thought – National + NZ First + ACT as the Government?

Jesus wept, shoot me now.

GREENS: 5%

I have argued the Greens are irrelevant because Labour are heading towards 50%+, but that was before Crusher and her skill set to arouse the worst angels of our nature, so the Greens getting back into Parliament is essential to keep Jacinda in power.

To this end Labour must consider handing Auckland Central over to the Greens if they aren’t looking likely to cross 5%. That call would need to be made at least a fortnight out from election day to have any impact on the day.

NZ First, ACT and National will all be attempting to goad woke green activists in social media to lose their shit over some petty micro aggression policing cancel culture deplatforming nonsense in the hope that the backlash spooks middle voters across to NZ First, ACT and National.

The Green Party need to come up with some positive busy work strategy to keep their Emerald Stormtroopers too distracted with some nothing online project in the hope to distract them from saying or doing anything alienating in these remaining 9 weeks.  Try a ‘Sunshine Project’ for the election where the Party urges social media supporters to hashtag why the are grateful for the Greens, anything to keep the woke too busy to say stupid shit.

ACT: 3% + 1 electorate

When you twerk with the Devil in the pale moonlight, the Devil doesn’t change, you do. ACT’s flirtation with the gun fascists has ended with them taking his Party hostage the way Trump did with the Republican Party. The NZ NRA want to repeal the gun laws and are anti-1080 conspiracy fetishists.

Some of the anti 1080 stuff they believe is really Chem trail. It’s glorious.

ACT have walked away from any ideological pretension that they are free market purists by going redneck on law and order with an appalling policy that would see the already outrageous proceeds of crimes act remove any safeguards and allow Police to seize private property. Who woulda thunk David Seymour would support State stormtroopers taking private property with no checks or balances other than the balance of probabilities?

Crusher Collins will take some of the shine off ACT’s recent rise as the angry Right vote are excited by Judith.

My guess is that in their haste to cut a deal with the Gun Nuts, ACT hasn’t spent much time on vetting their new NRA candidates. If I was a betting man, I’d bet that information came out about 4 weeks from election day.

If I was a betting man.

 

MAORI PARTY: Prediction 2% + 2 electorates

 

Exploiting the deep sense of resentment by Māori towards the neoliberal welfare agencies the Government haven’t been able to tame, they stand to gain 2% plus a win in both Tamaki Makaurau and Te Tai Hauāuru.

TOP: Prediction less than 2%

 

Sadly they haven’t built the momentum when they needed it. Risk getting a lower result than the New Conservatives.

New Conservative Party: Prediction less than 2%

Strip away any rationality, compassion and gentle sensibilities within Christianity and you have the New Conservative Party. Hateful of abortion, solo mothers, gays, solo mothers, cannabis and solo mothers, the New Conservatives love guns, patriarchy and more guns. Paranoid and frightened of any idea post the renaissance, the New Conservatives would represent a great leap backwards for New Zealand. It’s political thinking is so inbred, I suspect they would want to relax laws around cousins marrying. Banjo playing with your toes and burning books is mandatory to be a candidate. I suspect Solo mums are not allowed to vote for the Party.

 

Vision NZ: Prediction less than 1%

Hates all the same things as the New Conservatives but hates Muslims most. Brian Tamaki claimed yesterday at his central Auckland protest that Labour will make NZ a ‘Socialist country’ and I’ve NEVER been so excited & happy in my life. Reading through their policy, you suspect they consider eclipses to be inspired by Satan and believe Jacinda is the daughter of the Devil’s third cousin. I think Libraries and clitorises would be banned if Vision NZ came to power.

 

 

One Party: Prediction less than 1%

Now, you would have thought Vision NZ and the New Conservatives had covered off the entire spectrum of right wing crazy Christian, but lo and behold, there’s another schism and it’s the ‘ONE Party’. They talk ALOT about ‘The Kingdom’ which is bizarre for a democracy. Under ONE Party, I think Jesus becomes the Constitutional Head of State and God has to personally sign off on legislation. The NZDF would be given spirit spears to fight Satan with and anyone caught working on Sunday is put to death. I think under The One Party,  Gay Conversion treatment is mandatory for anyone who watches Glee. I think electricity and any singing that isn’t praising Jesus is also banned.

 

 

Advance NZ: Prediction less than Nothing.

Desperate for political relevance, Jami Lee Ross, the former Machiavellian Svengali of the National Party, has started his own Party for the advancement of Jami Lee Ross. Under Advance NZ, Jami Lees Ross advances his own interests and anyone who wants to donate vast sums of money to the right while being recorded for it. Advance NZ wants freedom, sovereignty and independence for Jami Lee Ross. Think of it as a really expensive public rebranding exercise so JLR can get a job in Banking somewhere

 

The Integrity Party: Prediction less than nothing.

Wants to be the kingmaker of politics with lots of middle of the road opinions. It’s that ugly blue green colour you have when environmentalism gets hit by capitalism. Has the kind of Māori buzz words you get when Wellington Bureaucrats are opening a sustainable pet crematorium.

 

Tea Party: Prediction less than 2%

Fresh from his tilt at the Auckland mayoralty, John Hong, NZs most active cheerleader for China, has formed his own Party and is aiming at the enormous Chinese diaspora in NZ to propel him into Parliament. For all the tea in China, I’m not sure the Tea Party has read the tea leaves here. If the Tea Party syphons off votes from National and they don’t reach the 5% threshold, Hong damages National and wastes all that vote. It’s a win win for the Left, so I for one say, ‘Keep going Mr Hong’.

NZ Public Party: Prediction less than 1%

I love this Party, sure the Chinese puppet party is funny, various religious right wing nutters are entertaining and the vanity projects are a great self deluded laugh, but for pure insanity, the NZPP can not be surpassed. Their policy platform are a bunch of QaNON conspiracies all rolled into one vast narrative. The Covid-19 virus is a bioengineered weapon spread by 5G technology that is aimed to bring about a shadowy one world Government inside the UN. I can’t satirise this, because it seems to be what they actually believe. The existence of the NZPP is an indictment on our public education system.

CONCLUSIONS:

With the enrolment rule changes and booths in supermarkets and malls, I think we will see a large turnout.

I think overseas votes will go overwhelmingly to Labour and not the Greens.

I think with the huge number of fringe parties we will see more wasted vote than ever before.

I think the Government will be Labour + Greens

I think National will be 35%+

NZ First won’t be politically relevant.

ACT will suffer rapid growth pains.

 

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31 COMMENTS

  1. If, in some nightmarish alternative Universe, there is an election outcome whereby a Nact govt. resulted, I would imagine that NZ would quickly become ungovernable. Riots would be the norm., and chaos would replace order.
    Luckily, we live in this version of reality, where the Nashnull nutters have been exposed for what they are.

    No sane person can vote for a party that has deliberately tried to undermine our pandemic response.
    No. Sane. Person.

  2. Possibly right Martyn;
    ‘But wait for last minute spurge of NZF policies for the provinces to shore up their vote Martyn’ – we are advised.
    “A day is a long time in politics”

  3. Important not to lose perspective here. A person like Collins will always attract support from long time National Party voters. The same people who absolutely despise Ardern and what she represents. They were never going to vote for the Government even if that same Government has kept them and their loved ones safe, fed and housed during a pandemic that will kill millions. Those same National Party supporters have been down in the mouth for almost 3 years and disillusioned with the leadership of their own party. Both Bridges and Muller failed to inspire even them for a long list of reasons. I’m confident they wouldn’t have voted in the upcoming election. Now they will vote. Collins could put up the most outrageous, divisive and devastating policies and National Party hardcore will just keep voting for her. Should that worry the rest of NZ? Absolutely not. They don’t represent the path our country is now on. They represent a previous devastating path that more and more Kiwis are rejecting.

    We know Government supporters will never vote for Collins unless they are voting for her to go and live in Africa.

    There are a few undecided voters out there but they won’t decide the election outcome.

    George W Bush was an inept US President but was gifted a second term due to one event. 9-11.

    Ardern has very carefully and prudently steered NZ along the path to safety. She’s done that while the rest of the world is reeling from Covid-19. In many places the pandemic is speeding up with all that entails but not here. Kiwis in huge unprecedented numbers trust Ardern.

    Kiwi’s in large numbers despise Collins and everything she represents. She’s a bully and very few people outside of National trust her. She has skeletons falling from every closet. There is also another country very much involved in her background and New Zealanders don’t want to embrace that country and it’s Government at this time. That country poses an increasing threat to NZ and all our allies.

    Collins can smile and appear affable during short interviews very much like a person advertising an exercise machine in a two minute infomercial but there is no substance and it won’t stand up to examination. Collins is in the luxurious position of having nothing to lose. Her party had already virtually given up winning the 2020 election and it’s only real goal was saving as many of the MP’s careers as possible. There is no pressure……..but, that will change. National are now thinking they are a chance of winning the election. This does not put pressure on Labour. It puts pressure on Collins as expectations increase. That’s when Collins will be Collins. The facade and mask will be replaced by reality. That reality will not concern the raw meat eating National Party support base but it will have the undecided voters running at rocket speed in the opposite direction to Collins. This dynamic is inevitable. I have no concern about Ardern winning a second term. I’m certain Labour will govern alone.

    I do have two concerns about the upcoming election.

    1) Our media. A large portion of it is so anti Government and pro National that they are an absolute affront to our democracy. I’m 100% certain their relentless PR campaign for Collins will continue along with running interference against the Government on behalf of the National Party. My biggest concern there is just how desperate they will become and what they will resort to or stoop to. Anything is the likely answer.

    2) Dirty Politics. We know it’s safe to totally dismiss the farcical call by Collins to run a clean campaign. She is the epitome of dirty politics. What will her and or her supporters be prepared to do? We know National Party supporters have been bleating to them and the media while in quarantine. They are very comfortable to attempt Government humiliation in any way they can. I sincerely believe that a loyal and devoted National Party supporter could be so desperate to assist National they may be prepared to deliberately cause Covid-19 to occur in the community. They have seen National’s very deliberate attempts to undermine the Governments pandemic handling as their only pathway back into Government so when you mix that with desperate dirty politics, anything is possible.

    • Wrong. Many of the same people who like Jacinda like Judith for very different reasons. Suburban mum’s and Karen’s, gays and even many young Lefty’s like Judith for her sense of humour and always tell me “she gets a bad rap she’s not so bad, she seperates the kids from the adults” Judith has a very socially liberal voting record and is in a mixed race relationship. Any attempt by the left to paint her as hard right or a traditional consersative will fail spectacularly because she’s not she voted on favor of abortion and gay marriage and is an NZ gay icon

      Labour has been invisible for a week unable to get any traction. Jacinda has seemed arrogant in recent weeks by crapping on green policies, refusing to congratulate a leader, almost claiming the election is just an inconvenience to her, refusing any electorate deals (not the crazy Auckland central idea which is just crazy and dumb but Wellington or Nelson or Northland) and each week thousands and thousands of jobs go and labour says oh we’ll replace them with a hundred jobs here, fifty jobs her two hundred jobs here.

      Labour is in big trouble. They haven’t released a major new policy really, since kiwibuild in 2013 under Shearer. They are timid and if they plan on running a nice and kind above it all election with no major policies at a time when transformational policies are needed while the wider left pretend Collins is some kind of hard right facist instead of just a schemer , then Lord help us.

      The left seem to be saying Collins wanting not be a new Muldoon in the post covid 19 works like it’s a bad thing. That. Will. Be. Popular.as.hell.

      Muldoon was NZs last socialist esque pm.

      the left are out of touch with NZ atm. We think charging ex Pat’s who haven’t paid tax here for years for quarantine is unpopular, oh no it’s not, what’s unpopular is putting them in hotels, most kiwis want them out on offshore prisons or army bases.

      Labour need to release some major policies and not the tweaky promises jacinda usually does and they need to release it NOW. Judith has dominated the media cycle and jacinda has had no traction the narrative is quickly changing and Labour need to stop being so damned cautious and think… What would populists like Kirk or savage do.

      And get rid of that dumb slogan

      • Corey Humm,

        I’m wrong in your eyes which is fine and dandy…but I’m not wrong.

        I’ve yet to meet a supporter of Ardern who likes and or respects Collins. If there are any of them out there they will be as rare as rocking horse poo and will be a splash in the ocean on election day. Collins represents everything in politics they have contempt for.

        Good luck trying to get your perspective to fly that Ardern is arrogant but Collins is a misunderstood good and decent politician. She’s the quintessential bully and totally untrustworthy. When Kiwis think of Dirty Politics, Collins is one of the first people that come to mind.

        The suggestion that Labour are in trouble is hysterical. They are on track for an unprecedented victory. National on the other hand are on course for a drubbing.

        • Yup agreed JF, Natz will briefly climb to 30-35% before the election, then actually achieve 20-25% on the day. They.are.a,mess. Desperate and bloody tragic. I love it. This is going to be the most humiliating election for National. Yippee.

    • nationals need for power could cost alot of lives it they deliberately release covid 19 then we should linch them covid is not a game i have had enough of national and the bloody born to rule attitude

  4. Election results with MMP are finely balanced and i would expect that Collins will make a massive impact on what was going to be a pretty dull campaign and will shore up Nationals vote.
    Some were predicting that Labour will get a majority in the parliament after the results are declared but imho i think the result will be close and could go either way and if it does the minor parties that survive will decide who forms the government.
    The campaign will be dirty and Collins will be a formidable opponent and the MSM are already on board to make sure she sets the narrative.
    Collins as PM leading a minority government is one of the likely outcomes.

  5. Shane Jones’ name will be on the ballot so that means he has a chance. That takes his chances up to the ‘virtually nil’ level.

    It’s nothing personal to Matt King, but the National rump is like the dyed-in-the-wool Trump supporters in some parts of the USA. Forget the “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” and not lose any voters of Trump. He could go into people’s houses inject covid-19 into their kids and they’d still think him god and vote for him.

    Enough Northland voters to support Jones? He could go into people’s houses and offer them 11 double-laned bridges and specific job opportunities for thousands and they’d still flock to King like flies to the cow muck in their paddocks. Jones the saviour of NZF? Not likely?

    • There may be a chance of Tracey Martin coming through in Ohariu. It seems a slim chance but she is a high caliber candidate facing two rather lackluster candidates from the main parties. I can see the voters in this electorate splitting their votes – after all Peter Dunne managed to win the seat pretty consistently over many elections.

      • Right on Mikesh on Tracey Martin in Ohariu. Further there is Ronnie Mark in Wairarapa recognised as the most effective Minister of Defence since Gordon 50 years ago. In a vacant National seat against Kerrin McAnulty. Oh and by the way 20000 defence personal will be new votes for NZF

    • Shane Jones got a donation from Sir Wira Gardiner, (but forgot to tell his wife Hekia Parata about it) when Jones went for Labour Leader in 2014. What’s more shonkey was, that John Key said ‘Nothing to see here, move on’
      https://www.newshub.co.nz/politics/key-plays-down-national-members-labour-donation-2014042208

      If you are wondering about the decline of NZ First, look no further than dirty politics in play. NZ First has dropped from 10% to 4% + 1 electorate – and they shouldn’t rely on Shane Jones swaggering about the provinces for their 1 electorate.

      Agree that Ron Mark is more likely, Tracey Martin could also pull it off for NZ First & Winston.

      If you see cups-of-tea-deals between Crusher and Shane, be afraid, be very afraid.

      Proportional Superannuitants Seats in New Zealand – anyone over 65 could opt in or stay on the general roll – that would definitely give Winston his 11.3 % again.

  6. I don’t know where NZ First is going to get votes from:

    National – Nup. The rump is well satisfied with Judith
    Act – Shit on the NRA and they’ll shit on you.
    Labour – What? They are going to vote for Brexit like, anti fairy dust politics?
    Greens – Bhahahahaha

    Unless he resurrects some of his older voters from the crypt I can’t see him getting over 2%. Oh and apparently Jones is despised in his electorate – Just don’t tell the long lost 3rd Blues Brother….

    Top at 2% really?

    • Winston made his life more difficult than it needed to be by ‘stabbing in the back’ the retirees from the UK. He and Jacinda castigated TraitorKey for his Govt NOT removing a law that has been found ‘illegal’ in every court case. But when Jacinda and Winston are in a position to do something about it, they go quiet and do nothing about it. Typical Poli-ticks.
      Jacinda doesn’t need the old vote as much as Winston, hence IMHO this is why NZF are so low in polls. 100K + Brits stabbed in the back by Winston. That is a HUGE percentage of the NZF vote.
      He ONLY has himself to blame !!!!!

    • Your analysis of National is very interesting. Collins running the country is akin to homeowners going on holiday and leaving their windows and doors wide open for burglars to help themselves. She will pillage NZ for as much as she can personally gain.
      Think Oravida, think scrapping the RMA.

  7. Went to a TOP Party presentation last week.
    Laid out clearly what the issues are.
    Laid out clearly how to address them.
    Why be rational when you can be loony and tribal?

  8. National have to deal with their own party pandemic, otherwise it will no longer be the ‘National’ party, it will end up being the Judy and Gerry party, a different animal altogether. (Or is that what it is already?)

    • ‘Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone’ WH Auden

      Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
      Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
      Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
      Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

      Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
      Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
      Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
      Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

      He was my North, my South, my East and West,
      My working week and my Sunday rest,
      My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
      I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

      The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
      Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
      Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;
      For nothing now can ever come to any good.

      W H Auden

      Fire all the Natz Auden-esquely speaking

      Stop all the rot, stop all the fails
      Stop the rot and stop the emails
      13th National resignation today with Mr Falloon.
      We thought resignations were finished, but it’s way too soon.

      A few more will go once the forensics are done,
      12 disciples of Boag and more, National’s race is run
      One lone Nat, standing at the podium,
      All for the sake of dirt and odium.

      Last one out of National HQ, set the rat-traps.
      Burn the “Dirty Politics handbooks”, shred all the tracks.
      Eat the rest of the evidence, delete every email ever written and sent (and received),
      Forensically clean the hard hard drive, cloud storage and tricks to deceive

      Make everyone leaving sign a non-disclosure agreement.

      Turn off the lights on the SS Blue Shambolic Princess, empty the fridge
      Lock up the ballroom and safes on the bridge.
      Shred all the evidence, every single bit
      Walk down the gangplank, but mind the rat-shit.

      Win-win for ACT, and the rabid right
      Who’ll fill the vacuum left by Natz’s plight

      Rats will eat their own if desperate enough.
      Feel what it’s like, no longer at the trough.

      The Natz are not wanted now: put out every one;
      Pack up the Blue and dismiss each one;
      Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;
      For nothing now can ever come from those doing no good.

      As you walk the last plank, listen to it squeaking
      Lose yourself Natz – Eminem-esquely speaking

      Diane

  9. No mention of ‘look to australia’ or ‘international students by July’ or ‘open the border’ or even ‘border shambles’ since Judith took over. So far the only promise is roads and tunnels in a decade or two that isn’t (and can’t be) properly costed. Nationals policy cupboard is bare. All there is is Judith who’s honeymoon is now over and questions will be asked that national can’t answer because they have no plan. Ardern and Robertson saying that big Gerry’s plan for charging returnees will create a surge in arrivals pre sept that NZ can’t cope with is a masterstroke. Extra points if they remind people that National wanted to close borders early and don’t give a toss about Kiwis abroad. Collins to be hammered this week with defending comments by former leaders. Todd still to answer questions re leak. Hopefully Gerry to be given even more freedom to speak his mind.

  10. It seems the mental breakdown, is contagious in the ranks of the Nats, or is their something in the water or the milk that turns these young born to rule arrogant Nats, to do and think as they choose, another one bites the dust Falloon.

    • “Mental breakdown” is the excuse he is giving, and being given, for sending pornographic images to a schoolgirl. Only a Nat MP could do that and still be given all the oozing empathy for the “poor bloke who lost a couple of his mates a decade ago”.

      “Mental breakdown” is simply an excuse so that he won’t be charged, or if he is, so that he won’t go to jail.

      What a sick system we live in.

  11. The fruits of three decades of neo liberalism

    Auckland school staff prepare for more hungry kids in Term 3 …www.rnz.co.nz › programmes › checkpoint › audio › a…

  12. Is there anything National Party MP’s won’t stoop to?

    1) For 18 months, National Party trolls incessantly attacked an intoxicated 21 year old person behaving inappropriately toward “children” at a young Labour summer camp. Without any evidence being made available and in a desperate attempt to gain traction against the Government they portrayed the alleged offender as a Ted Bundy and had him convicted, then hung drawn and quartered. No need for a court system. He’s guilty!!!!!! Of course National painted it’s self as being the epitome of “pure”where as Labour were riddled with sex offenders. In November 2019 the alleged offender was discharged without conviction.

    2) Recently, 37 year old National Party MP Andrew Falloon sent sexually explicit photos to more than one young woman. He attempts to justify his obscene and diabolical offending by talking about people he knows’s who have resorted to suicide. What a disgraceful course to take and not for the first time with a then National Party MP.

    3) Collins attempts to portray what’s unfolded as the offender being extremely mentally unwell. Really? So Collins is now a clinical psychiatrist and is so gifted in this field she can offer a comprehensive diagnosis without even seeing the person? Is this going to be the go to justification for every National Party MP exposed for diabolical conduct? Is it now perfectly reasonable to minimize the serious nature of mental health by routinely using it as a cop out? Is this a snapshot into the leadership style of Collins and her version of honesty and transparency.

    4) Why is it that Andrew Fallon and Hamish Walker can admit to reprehensible conduct yet can continue sucking up a very generous salary with virtually unlimited perks for several more months? Similar offenders elsewhere would be sacked on the spot.

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