We had barely 35% turn out.
That is a pitiful wasteland of local democracy descending into apathetic decline!
Structural poverty issues like homlessness and constant moving robs poor people from voting while the older white baby boomers vote with the same ruthless passion of piranha feeding at a kindergarten swimming pool.
What most people don’t know about NZ Elections is that we are such a cheap arsed country we contracted out the holding of the local elections to a private company, a private company who have no real interest or desire to run the elections for anything other than the cheapest means possible.
There are of course winners and losers.
WINNERS:
Boomers – The Boomers fuck Auckland again for their Boomer King to ‘fix’ fucking nothing. Fuck them, fuck their privilege! I hate this fucking city! Indeed in many cases those rich white boomers have property in multiple locations and gain multiple votes, oh how quick the right’s ‘one person one vote’ mantra against co-governance goes out the window when it’s their landed gentry voting privileges that get challenged. Fuck them for strangling off change once again for a 500 year old dinosaur that doesn’t know he’s extinct yet.
Wayne Bown – This fucking dizzy clown has won the rigged casino that is a privately run cheap election. He’s as cognitively damaged as Biden is, his confused granddad-lost-the- keys-in-the-fridge routine will wear off very quickly. He won’t fix a single fucking thing!
National & ACT- Total destruction of Labour in Auckland, the political ramifications of this loss will reverberate all the way to the election in 2023!
ZB – The total collapse of Today FM as a challenger to ZB has allowed ZB to become a ratings behemoth. Wayne sunk his money into adverts in ZB and it worked! ACT and National should just empty their pockets on ZB for the election next year because Today FM ratings implosion means to win Auckland, you just need to throw half a million on ZB.
Toxic Politics – The feral Qanon lunatic fringe managed to make the political debate so toxic that people recoiled from it.
LOSERS:
Democracy – The wasteland of apathy that local elections have fallen into is utterly predictable. A single company is paid to run our elections, and they don’t give a fuck if participation rates are low! In the end there were only a dozen placed to cast a special vote, most had no idea where their postal ballot was and the entire fiasco entrenches privilege and wealth.
Poor people – You are fucked. Rich people can buy elections rigged for privilege in this city.
Public Transport – Despite 51% of Auckland wanting free public transport, expect Brown to gut this.
Auckland – Our beloved city, destroyed by mass immigration polices and gridlocked because no one ever fucking pays for the infrastructure won’t be fixed by this geriatric clown. At least with Efeso the free public transport would have made the city bearable.
South Auckland – They lose out on electing the first Pacific Islander as Mayor and they have lost the incredible representation of Efeso Collins who now is out of local body elections. One of the best leaders of our generation has been kicked out of office. South Auckland should weep. Efeso didn’t fail Auckland, Auckland failed Efeso.
Labour + Greens – The total fuck up in selecting a candidate and getting behind that candidate has proved once and for all that the mighty Labour/Green Machine is dead and buried. Losing Auckland will have enormous political impact on the Left in Auckland. Losing an election to a barely functioning geriatric shows that the Left are incapable of winning people over to our side.
Gen X – We got fucked again by the Boomers!
Spin-off getting taxpayer money to promote the elections – All that money spent on Spin-off to get out the vote was a fucking waste of money.
PREDICTIONS:
In the end, Aucklanders hated any demand by authority to tell them what to do. Their Covid lock down has generated a a backlash that we saw with the incredible popularity of Leo Molloy. We are the city lost in gridlock by poor mass immigration planning, boomer vested interests and inequality that frays the edges of our many communities.
The pathetic turn out is a direct result of this cheap arsed country sub contracting the running of elections out to a private company (the same private company now trying to con you into online voting btw), that private company doesn’t give a fuck about turn out, they care only about making money out of their contract.
It is time the Election Commission took over the contract, ran it themselves and set it up like a National election with one day of voting, two weeks pre voting and polling booths everywhere!
Most NZers aren’t even aware that it’s a private company that runs the local elections, once they do, they suddenly understand why it’s so poorly attended.
This joke of local democracy is no longer fit for purpose.
What a broken system we have.
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Leftist tears taste like wine. Best thing ever for Brown was the endorsement of Collins by
Ardern and the bimbo Lorde.
Yep, you will get to see those libaries closed down and parks sold off.
Slur Lorde? Why? Because she’s a woman, because she’s young, because she’s well-known, because she’s made a bit of money, because she’s skinny, or simply because she preferred a different candidate than the one you did?
No because she is another dizzy champagne socialist that wants to spend your money not hers. A shrill for Ardern.
Because after a shooting in the US, Lorde popped up her wee head and said it was the fault of white people everywhere. I have no respect for such mindless racism.
What a stupid fucking comment. Lorde is a bimbo for endorsing someone? I didn’t even vote for Collins but that’s just a knuckle dragging f’wit thing to say
Lorde can endorse who she likes. See comment above.
These results show Jacinda’s backing was the kiss of death in Wellington and Auckland . Christchurch has gone the National way and a ex National minister is the mayorbof Nelson . These results show a rejection of Labour interference and it should give hope that National,will get power in 2023
In which we wil have a bonfire of council services and assets.
How do you know these right wing councils, having seen off 3 waters, wont hand over their water systems lock stock and barrell over to the private sector?
They may well do Millsy now that Labour chose to build, then open Pandora’s box.
Idiots.
We the working public are likely fucked either way but at least sinking 3 waters (if possible) we can fight for some form of democracy, with Labour we lose control of water AND our democracy.
And what if these right wing councils hand over their water assets to multinationals, like Papakura did in the 1990’s? I supposed that’s honky dory for a right wing ACT supporter like you.
3 waters needs to happen. Councils had been running down infrastructure for decades and the government has decided to fix it, even better, councils don’t have to pay a single red cent. All that costly water infrastructure gets taken off their hands.
How do you know that the next Labour govt wont do a 4th Labour govt and sell everything?
Because they are 100% commited to public ownership of water reticulation
Until they’re not… just another fan boi….
Is that from the same barrel of broken promises like NO children living in cars on my watch or running the most open and transparent government ever.
Roll on 2023
Well old white men like you packed a shitty because you didnt want to pay more tax to get the kids out of cars.
Personaly, I think National voters are relatively comfortable with kids in cars, as it keeps rents up, no different to high unemployment to keep wages down.
Natz never added to NZ social housing stock for nearly 30 years. If they had done so we wouldn’t now have a housing or a lot of social problems.
In 5 years Labour have built 3000 not a great deal to shout about
Yep I called it that the Jacinda endorsement was probably the worst thing possible in this campaign. It will have either turned people off from voting or, worse yet, voting against her preferred candidate. The unfolding debacle of the current government is going to hurt any campaign they try and throw their influence at.
Next year’s election is National/ACTs to lose (and don’t get me wrong, the opposition is so incompetent that could actually happen).
Trevor. Who did Jacinda Ardern back in Wellington, please ? The only good thing tonight is not living in Nelson where that snivelly red faced wee fellow is now Mayor. The illegal pot growers have stuffed up mightily, but hey, they got the money. Some got citizenship too.
I guess it pretty much going to be John Banks 2.0, with the razors out for Auckland’s services.
Bring in online voting…that will get the younger generations interested….
Ok now do Westport.
Big comments on Auckland Bomber.
Care to talk about Wellington? Christchurch? Waikikamukau?
According to Simon Wilson in his post election oped, the solution to Aucklands closed rail system….is less cars, more buses and my favourite magic mushroom moment, “pop up cycleways” and for Mayor Brown first chance to show leadership. Delusional plus Si!
Gotta ask how does ‘Boomers’ bothering to vote equate to fucking Auckland?
Surely the failure of gen x or whatever not bothering to vote has fucked Auckland (in your view)
That said, the city is a mess and its had a succession of left wing mayors… perhaps it’s time to reflect on that…
Phil Goff left wing? Nah.
This. I am 38 and first time in my life I’ve voted center right. Sometimes it’s better the devil you know rather than the woke hopium, fairy dust and mismanagement that Labour and Auckland council have delivered.
I don’t know if Brown will be good but he’s got a better chance than the other candidates of sorting this city out.
It was my daughter’s first time voting and she has just turned 18. We drive to two booths promoted as drop off points. One was closed (Morera) and the next one we drove to (Petone) was open but didn’t accept special votes. We then drove to the council chambers in Lower Hutt and they were great. She carefully read each profile and chose women and POC who represented her views. Got her votes in 20min before closing. Guess what. None got voted in. There’s just one woman on the Hutt Council and barely any POC. And we wonder why people don’t vote.
I’m a 36 year old guy living on the North Shore in Auckland. Granted, I’m not in Grey Lynn, and work in the productive sector, but the following was a list of words from the candidate profiles I avoided like the plague when voting:
Vision
Climate Action
Equity
Free
Made it pretty easy.
As an aside, I grew up in Wellington. Wellington voting for a Green Party backed massive fag hag (Tory won’t mind this characterisation) versus Auckland voting for Wayne Brown (I don’t need to characterise him, Martyn has said enough already) proves New Zealand is a very divided country, much more so than half a decade ago. Ardernist populism holds a lot of responsibility for this.
Wow, I bet you voted for people who wanted to sell parks and close libraries.
How the hell did Smith get the Nelson Mayoralty, Nelson residents must have short memories or incredibly thick
Should have never forced Rodney into the Auckland super city with these low turnouts. Give them their referendum and make them someone elses problem.
Honeychile, no one gives a flying fuck about Gen X.
The idea that boomers arent labour voters is ridiculous. The problem in this election was the candidate choice. Everytime Collins answered a question you could hear the bureacratic capture. Everytime Brown opened his mouth you could hear visionless accountancy. That left a choice of more or less road cones and everyone in Auckland drives.
lol let’s all just be grateful we’ve DONE-IT-AGAIN and managed to chain a mayor to each of our diabolical cities. Let’s hope they don’t pull a Faafoi and manage to escape 🙂
Zack – Funny how it’s the Parliamentarians who scarper off and not the mayors. Mental health expert Prince Harry of Hollywood advises people who aren’t happy in their jobs to just leave them, and I guess that MP’s listen to princes, if not to plebs. It does help to have another job to go to though, or a generous pension fund, or an abode on some Pacific paradise.
‘the incredible popularity of Leo Molloy. ‘
Yeah right =non starter.
im just here for the salt. i am not disappointed.
m+dri. Welcome, King Lear, welcome. But for you I may never have met the perspicacity of Wm S. Welcome again.
Many people seem to think everyone over age 60 or 70 is a baby boomer. In fact, the cohort covers from about age 50 up to 77. It started as people returned to New Zealand at the end of World War Two in 1945. It covers people born between 1946 to the early 1970s. See the following link.
https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/28730/baby-boom-generation-about-1969
Wayne Brown was born near the beginning of the cohort. Presumably many younger people have also voted for him, particularly business and property owners, regardless of their age.
Episodes of RNZ Mediawatch over recent years, which include soundbites of Newstalk ZB hosts, confirm most of these hosts have constantly attacked the Labour Government, in particular Jacinda Ardern, and their policies, including Three Waters. Efeso Collins was initially leading in polls during the Auckland Mayoral campaign. Newstalk ZB hosts openly endorsed Wayne Brown throughout his campaign. Commenters on this site can easily access the RNZ and ZB websites for confirmation, if they are not Newstalk ZB listeners. As it is apparently the most popular radio station in Auckland, clearly this influenced the election result.
I regard myself as part of the boomer generation. Confining it to the returned fighters from 1945 is the sort of rigidity you get from the educated-limited middle class who decide things, design boxes, and then push people into them – where they might stay for the rest of their lives.
I think that the boomers started in 1939 when the pre-war and start of war was affecting the nation and its people. Babies were started that wouldn’t have been, babies were born that couldn’t have been (work that one out) and babies were rushed into or on the other hand, never born then or thereafter because the men who would have married the waiting women and started a family were dead. It was that general disruption that formed the baby boomer generation. It wasn’t a neatly packaged social movement.
Boomers were born between 1946 and 1964. 1939ers are The Silent Generation.
Hey Mosa….I wonder what will get younger people inspired to to action and vote?…I hope something does inspire them or humanity and democracy as we know it could be done and dusted as we know it.
People still need a voice no matter what age they be.
WTFrock, Auckland? If I’d known you wanted an ‘ancient monument’ for Mayor – I would have stood!!
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