The Boomer King who has run away from all media interviews with the speed of Today FM dropping in the ratings, so knowledge that he would be forced to do a live interview with one of the best public broadcasters in the game, Jack Tame on Q+A, made you pop the pop corn early.
It was as glorious as we all hoped.
Wayne Brown is so bad, every time you see him you are more concerned.
He’s old.
Like, really, really, really old.
He’s like what happens when you go to the shop to buy a new iPhone and come out with a Fax machine.
He is immediately defensive and snarlingly aggressive, the way someone is when they’ve fucked up and don’t want to admit it.
He can’t answer simple questions about how hopeless his communication was during the Anniversary Weekend storm, Jack asks very simple questions, the Boomer Kings growls and huffs and puffs.
Because we see him so rarely, every time you watch Wayne are always surprised how bad he is.
There is some story about the really wimpy and wet yuff activists who are unhappy with the looming Budget cuts and they are feckless and have no political muscle.
Jack asks if Wayne will stand again, he mumbles about it being 2 years away but the idea Aucklanders would ever re-elect him seems optimistic in the extreme.
Kieran is on.
His focus is on saving money, he acknowledges 1 person 1 vote isn’t the only democratic value and that this is New Zealand. He argues 1 person 1 vote is an academic argument and that the Treaty matters, especially in light of the Waitangi Tribunal ruling on water.
He shows Labour will actually champion that argument and run it straight into the face of the Rights argument.
This is a far stronger message from Labour on water reforms, a far more bold fronting of the issue and I think it will work for middle voters who were being convinced ‘Da Maaaaaaareees is stealing da water’ level rhetoric.
His ‘Here’s the guts of it’ would be fake and shallow coming from anyone else, but Kieran is so authentic he’s almost soil – he has shone as a spokesperson on this. I’m not often impressed by politicians, but Kieran is an incredibly impressive Politician.
Next story is Free Speech expert from America here warning us that hate speech laws will damage us!
I have argued with the woke middle class activists in NZ for 5 years that all they are doing with their war on free speech is provide ammunition for ACT.
ACT went from .7 to double digits now because the woke middle class activists started a culture war we on the Left can’t win.
The US academic is damning of the Thugs Veto we saw at the Posie Parker clash.
Will the woke middle class activists listen?
Like fuck, I’m sure they have started a petition against Q+A for daring to allow anyone to criticise their activism.
Another great Q+A.
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Clearly, Martyn, whether this interview was a train-wreck or a triumph depends entirely upon the eye of the beholder.
What I saw was a young journalist doing everything he could to provoke a retort he could then replay on the six o’clock news bulletin, and an elderly Mayor blatting away his caviling questioning with barely concealed contempt.
I strongly suspect that the older voters who elected him will be well satisfied with the Mayor’s performance, and that their constantly declining faith in the mainstream news media was in no way arrested.
Brown understands the dynamic at work here extremely well. It operates according to exactly the same rules that cause Act’s vote to rise with every attempt by the Woke to curb free speech.
Agree with your thoughts.I think Brown did well and I admire the way he did not heap blame on the previous Mayor.
He made mistakes which he owned up to but how much was he meant to have changed in 3 months .
Labour are still blaming National 5 years after they were in power .Perhaps they should learn a lesson from Mayor Brown.
Exactly. I don’t think that being snarlingly contemptuous towards a hostile media is a negative at all. It’s more of a pre-requisite if anything.
You’re quite right but its a mistake to assume its boomers only, it isn’t! Young people also voted for him, again, for the same reasons ACT is proving attractive!
I think Wayne Brown will be re-elected, as the woke backlash keeps on giving.
Who would put labeen in charge of water with all their other disasters?
the polytech merger,
the Maori authority health care,
Waka Kotahi,
emergency housing and
Kainga ora where their brand new houses all flooded
Landfills and full prisons going great guns.
Climate change and emissions disasters – natural disasters around the country.
Crime, in particular youth ram raiders, out of control.
Low educational levels at primary in particular.
Long hospital waiting lists.
Brown might be old, and white and everything the white, woke, hate, but he got the most votes in Auckland because people are sick of the woke. They are destroying Auckland and now the rest of the country.
The more woke talk the less anybody wants to vote for them. Even chippy is trying to be less woke.
Unfortunately for him, he is surrounded by wokies and the radical rainbow party that seems to have replaced the Green Party in all but name, whose leader appears to hate cis white males because they are the source of all violence in the world.
Labour having a co leader who appears to hate white people and males while Chippie is thinks men can choose to be woman sporting penises if they want to, is not really making Labour very attractive to men nor woman.
You are wrong. Wayne won because of a rigged election system run by a private contractor.
I’d agree with that. The only people I know who got their ballot papers in the mail, were home owners.
Seriously, that is not a credible argument. No other political commentator has argued the point. Who is arguing that because a private contractor is involved that there was an implicit plan to reduce turnout. Effectively by not sending voting papers to addresses in particular parts of the City.
The real problem is that we have a much higher number of people changing addresses without anyone advising the electoral office. This they don’t get voting papers sent ti them in the mail.
That is an argument against postal voting, not that the electoral system is corruptly managed.
Online voting would make much more sense for local elections. Effectively a modern form of postal voting. The shift needs to be made for the same reasons that postal voting was originally introduced. That was done because people were not prepared to go to traditional polling booths on a particular day, not for local elections. Just about everyone over 18 has some form of electronic address. The challenge will be to prevent multiple voting under multiple electronic addresses.
I bet you don’t think the same about though Biden, do you? It’s not the fraud is it, it’s when the other guy benefits from it.
God! Bomber, you are a Trumpist! Rigged elections.
Who would have thought you would go down that Rabithole.
Or maybe a bunch of people abstained because there was no candidate that could represent them. Brown too right and Collins captured by bureaucrats.
No, Wayne won because he ran a smarter and far more focused campaign than Efeso.
he only won ’cause only 26% got up off their arses and voted!!!!
lol if you think anyone is going to side with the NZ media this side of the election you are living up on the moon.
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CHRIS+TROTTER you raise a relevant point there.
Jack should have asked the free speech guru why we should have free speech here but ban Tiktok over there. And why they not banning Facebook and Instagram for live streaming mass murder.
Wayne Brown is known for his contempt of the urban liberal middle-class media and doing interviews for the sake of it, we all get that. Yet Simon Wilson thinks he can character assassinate this guy with every article he puts out but ironically it only serves to strengthen Brown, because Wilson articulates how bad it could have been under the dross the “left” offered with his idiotic alternatives Brown should implement. Wilson gets about a 99% strike rate for comment’s against his opinions, he’s that disconnected from the mainstream public!
But lets consider the alternative. Richard Hills. Prolific instagrammer/tweeter, oozes that ghastly superficial kindness, caring, and deep know it all interference in peoples lives, in true Ardernism spirit. He links everything but everything to climate change yet none of his solutions would improve the weather one millionth of a degree but it would stuff “Tamaki Makaurau” royally as a result. You think the public loathed Auckland Transport after Phil Goff, it would be a whole new level of hatred with that turkey as Mayor!. He’s highly unlikely to know how to change a light bulb much less realise that the council had drains or that they needed to maintain them, but jeez, he sure as shit can offer some pointless advice, like don’t go out in the floods, (duh), and take care of your whanau! I never thought of that, Rich, but thanks. I’m sure him and Jack Tame would get on like an ecohouse on fire! For the rest of us non woke, no thanks.
Will Browny survive his term even? Despite all the tory wankers default support for this incompetent–elected by a tiny rump of voters. Due to transience, renter numbers increasing, degraded postal and electoral services, low participation generally, and other right candidates withdrawing he slithered in–with support from well known top level right opportunists and National Party personnel.
A few months back my partner observed him getting orders and change wrong when he was on bar duty and the Mangonui Cruising Club in Mill Bay. He is Auckland’s Ronald Reagan–good for two hours a day before his first Steinie or golf course stroll.
Auckland voting for Brown is an example of how useless our version of democracy is. The great big supershitty could not find a devoted intelligent practical knowledgable citizen to run the city. If it has been set up to fail they need to recognise this and look for some luminaries from their midst to lead a reoovery something better than the ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’, those badly led losers. But then Mike Lee has been working away trying to uncover that secret cache of brain that was probably buried in a time capsule when the train system had its first sod turned, but so many sods have piled up that the hiding place will only be found by exhaustive forensic exploration grid by grid.
Bomber, Kieran impressive.
What kind of masochist even wants to be mayor of Auckland?
Seriously.
Sad-o-massochist
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