If Gerry Brownlee and Nikki Kaye are the answer what the hell was the question?
Nikki Kaye and Gerry Brownlee are the big winners in a Cabinet reshuffle announced by Prime Minister Bill English this afternoon.
As expected, Kaye is the new Education Minister, replacing Hekia Parata.
Brownlee has been made Foreign Affairs Minister in place of Murray McCully, who has held the portfolio for eight years.
Rodney MP Mark Mitchell has also received a significant promotion, to Defence Minister, and has been moved into the Cabinet just months after he was made a minister outside Cabinet.
The total panic that has set in within National as their internal polls show women voters leaving in droves for Jacinda is what has prompted Nikki Kaye’s sudden promotion. It’s good seeing National nervous. Kaye’s transformation into a snarling attack dog used to attack Jacinda however will go down like a cup of cold sick within the education sector.
Brownlee who is the most hated man in Christchurch becoming the Foreign Affairs Minister is an appalling choice when you consider his role in covering up and justifying the accusation of war crimes in Afghanistan.
Those words will come back to bite him in his arse when the looming court case launches.
In other moves, Nick Smith has been demoted for the fiasco that has been housing and Tim Macindoe continues his rise to power.
The most dangerous decision has been in allowing former mercenary Mark Mitchell anywhere near Defence. I don’t trust Mitchell as far as I could throw him. There is something deeply worrying about him inside Parliament.
All in all a pretty squalid and vapid revamp before the election to get Nick Smith off the telly and try to woo female voters back with Kaye.
Watch Mitchell like a hawk.
Well Patrick, it looks like your claims about Dalziel and no rise in sea levels is utter garbage. You should do more research before putting your rubbish on a Forum like this.
By the way, my extended family lives in ChCh and most of them switched to voting for Dalziel last time. And they are ALL PROPERTY OWNERS.
So, where is your evidence, patrick? You’re heavy on the rhetoric but a little light in facts.
Untrue.
Sea levels at Lyttleton have risen;
ref: http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/environment/environmental-reporting-series/environmental-indicators/Home/Marine/coastal-sea-level-rise.aspx
The real stat is plus or minus 0.09mm/year, not the “1.7mm” you gave.
Would you care to tell us where you got that “1.7mm” figure from? You don’t dseem to reference any of your so-called “facts”.
The rest of your diatribe against Dalziel is meaningless. You obviously have a bee-in-your-bonnet about her and the fact that her electoral support is increasing seems to go over your head.
Oh, and Patrick? If you think “72000 votes … is actually a pretty poor result”, then consider that she won more votes than her predecessor, Bob Parker: 68,245
ref: http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/vote-2010/4215326/Local-Body-Elections-2010-Christchurch-City
Would two earthquakes and subsequent rebuilding have anything to do with that “chaos”, Patrick? Do you think?
I was there when Parker was in charge and the huge fall out from Brownlee’s lack of intent and the poor communication. It has been 3 years since I have returned and it brought me to tears to think the 8 years I resided from 1988 to 1996( which were the best years of my short lifetime) are no longer. Playing cricket for Riccarton at the picturesque Hagley park, crossing the well laid out one way system to get from one side of the city to the other was so simple. It was such a beautiful city and only time can heal such a catastrophic event. Whether it be Brownlee or Dalziel, clearly funding and effort will speed up the process. I personally don’t think that when responsibility was handed back to the council from CERA, it was given with enough Government funding.
Patrick,
When a farmer comes out and complains about a right wing Govt, the last thing you want to be doing is attacking him verbally. As for the silver spoon thing, that is exactly what Brownlee is doing in this instance. Speaking with the veil of privilege and the subtlety of Trump(remember Brownlee understands Trump’s language” Brownlee has his own sense of entitlement. By the way, the others in the clip appear to appreciate the ability for someone to stand up to Gerry the bully.
Patrick,
Read the headline:
Gerry Brownlee was blasted by Kaikoura “LOCALS” who say the Government’s action has been “piss poor”.
Are the “LOCALS” all moaners or is only big Gerry allowed to have a sense of entitlement.
And finally Patrick, just to make my point, Brownlee has a history…
Yes, I concur Patrick that the blame game is irresponsible.
And I believe you are sincere in your belief that Dalziel is not what you want in a mayor, as much as I am sincere in my belief that Brownlee’s incompetents also adds to the frustrations of the people of Christchurch.
I suppose for me it is the smug arrogance of Brownlee and his ‘put down” of people, forgetting that he is there to work “for the people”. I gather you are stating the same for Dalziel. The day our representatives take personal responsibility for their actions, will be well after I’ve passed on.
Because she has a city to run Paddy McGinty.
Gerry being popular:
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/video-pillock-gerry-brownlee-hammered-trying-play-victim-in-front-frustrated-kaikoura-locals
Patrick, you just got your arse handed to you on a plate. If your going to debate Frank, you better make sure you have your facts ready. Otherwise you end up looking like a right Pratt.have a fucking nice day.
Whilst I appreciate your concerns Paddy, I can also tell you that Gerry is not the most liked in Christchurch himself. Plenty dislike his ineffectiveness as the minister in charge of EQC.
As for “The Mayor, who is in her 5th year in command is still blaming Bob Parker! After 4 years and 5 months in charge isn’t a tad these unpopular changes on poor old Bob?”, I can only say,
this is what has been happening under National the last 9 years… “it’s all Labours fault”.
The irony is that without Labour paying down debt to 10 billion, National would not have the reasonable economy we have today. But you don’t here National jumping from the rooftop thanking Labour for that.
I have to agree with Rachel Stewart, in that, this where National have lead us…
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11844791
Bert, your claim that “Gerry is not the most liked in Christchurch” is backed up by election results. Brownlee’s constituents seem to be slowly deserting him:
2008
Electorate votes:
20,648
ref: http://www.electionresults.govt.nz/electionresults_2008/electorate-18.html
2011
Electorate votes:
20,070
ref: http://electionresults.govt.nz/electionresults_2011/electorate-18.html
2014
Electorate votes:
19,981
ref: http://archive.electionresults.govt.nz/electionresults_2014/electorate-18.html
Brownlee’s dropping support is in stark contrast to National’s Party Vote which has increased from 2008:
National Party Vote:
2008: 19,541
2011: 19,934
2014: 20,377
Therefore, Brownlee’s drop in voter support has to be seen in the context of a fall in personal support for him, and not voters deserting National.
Patrick appears to have ‘targetted’ the wrong person.
Specifically what are you referring to?
Again, what are you referring to?
It’s hard to make sense of your criticisms without knowing what you’re talking about.
The question is:
Oh, so Gerry uses blackmail to get “his” way. Kim Jong Un and Hitler governed the same way.
I don’t think you need to be proud of that and I can see why the Greens gave him nil brownie points.
Sounds very much like Auckland to me,with the exception of the earthquake thing of course.
The Natz strategy is backfiring now.
Key was the polished turd presented via Crosby Textor crafting and Farrar opinion polling to the public as the shining face of National. With heavy oversell by the MSM, the too-tired to think public bought the narrative hook line and sinker.
But psychopaths are notoriously unreliable. Key ran away.
And now, the bumbling incompetent fools that were hiding behind his false visage are being rudely exposed.
No talent, and because of their devotion to neoliberalism, no policy.
A desperate rabble that has gutted the country, on it’s way out.
What an exceedingly shallow gene pool National have. All thoroughly unlikable.
And Brownlee is so beyond his used by date, it is astounding that he is even looking at another term in parliament. But at least he can bypass Airport security with impunity though.
The problem is, Xray, they allow him back into the country…
They can shift their cronies around all they want.
They have nothing new to say and nobody charismatic enough to suck supporters in.
They’re doomed! Doomed! DOOMED! 😀
Rearranging the deck chairs on the ship of fools, hopefully to hit an ice berg at the next elections
Yes problem is the iceberg e.g. the Labour crowd are so pathetic.
We need to put a list together of the things that should they become the next government they need to be held to account for.
Apparently Little has said we need an enquiry into those who were put into state care. Let’s face it some of the people who treated these kids so badly are still around, and should be charged and go to court.
And then there is the exposure of those who were mowed down by our forces in Afghanistan. We must ensure they keep to that and have the enquiry.