Wayne Brown’s lazy victory in Auckland has blinded the NZ Political Right
And now the pretend is clear
And what I face is finally certain
Leo Molloy, I’ll make it clear
I’m full of shit, an Oz behind the curtain
I’ve lived a life that’s bull
I’ve burnt each and every bonsai
But more, much more than this
I did it while hating every Gay
Regrets, what are those?
Simon Wilson is the exemption
I didn’t do, what I had to do
I saw Auckland drown and took my pension
I planned each asset privatisation
Each evil step along the byway
But more, much, much more than this
I did it while hating every Gay
There were times I’m sure Simon Wilson knew
When I bit off more than I could chew
But through it all, when there was doubt
I Fucked it up and shat it out
I faced it all and I stood small and did it hating every Gay
For what is an old boomer, what has he got?
I ejaculate dust, hollow money shot
To not say the hate that I truly feel
Are the words of Quitter Molly who kneels
Let the record show I took all the blows and did it hating every Gay
I love Comedy Roasts, they are gloriously offensive and are a cherished cultural space that most be protected from the woke and the Feminist Comedy Guild, however the Leo Molloy Roast (which only raised a pathetic $13000 for the Mayor’s arsehole fund) spoke to a far deeper malaise inside the NZ Right.
Don’t get me wrong, some truly killer and hilarious burns were thrown around. It’s so lovely to see Guy Williams was loaned a pair of balls so that he could attend after he had to apologise to the woke for platforming heteronormative white cis male hate on his TV show – but Golriz will want them back.
It was great to see Judith Collins out of her crypt and not slaughtering livestock for fresh blood while Shane Jones will turn up to any event he can eat at for free.
I’m not saying Shane Jones is a greedy condescending fat bastard, but he’s a greedy condescending fat bastard.
It was cruel to pretend Sean Plunkett is relevant and what the fuck was Sir Graham Henry doing there?
Did he understand what he was invited to?
His agreement speaks to the concussed brain damage rugby players suffer from.
Soccer NZ should tour him around schools to promote to kids why they shouldn’t play rugby.
“Too many hits to the head and you too will agree to hang out with Leo Molloy, play soccer”.
Wayne Brown’s arrogance however summed up the misplaced smugness that has saturated the political right in NZ.
They misread his Mayoral victory last year as support when really he was elected under a privatised voting regime rigged against poor people.
To mistake his victory as support for his agenda is woeful and has led to a hubris and smug arrogance that is utterly underserved.
The shockwave of the Herald Poll of Polls, the shockwave of the Roy Morgan Poll, all the Right scream now is that the polls are rigged because everyone in their toxic echo bunker believes the exact same thing they do!
The feral right have become as disconnected with reality as the cancel culture woke.
Election night is going to be fun.
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There needs to be a national slate of left-wing city/county/regional council candidates, running on a single party ticket with the same basic policies (mass infrastructure development, mass council housing construction, job guarantee etc.)
Most of the local council candidates are such cowards that they won’t even openly declare whether they are Labour or Tory.
We have that in Auckland. It’s called City Vision. They’re awful.
Comedy Roast?
More like a glass of cold Metamucil.
No wonder they only raised $13k. Amateur hour at the local nursing home would be more entertaining.
Oops sorry, my mistake, it was held at Molloys HQ…..same thing
Great article! One of the best two I’ve read this morning! Scathingly beautiful!
The other was Janine Starks take-down of Nigel Latta’s anti-scam TV programme – funded by banksters!!!
The same banksters who won’t reimburse the innocents who are scammed.
Maybe capitalism really is starting to crumble; and with AI looming it may yet cause it to landslide.
Proud to say I didn’t vote for Wayne Brown at all (wouldn’t have gone near Molloy either if he has had the staying power), but disappointed that the former won – he’s absolutely useless.
I only voted for Wayne Brown to keep the sticky fingers of Labour/Greens from further probing Auckland’s vulnerable nethers. It wasn’t a vote for Brown, it was a vote against the agenda of the other side and I did that with every candidate.
I’ve since spoken to three other (unrelated) people who did the same, which makes me wonder if that attitude was quite widespread. All of us former Labour voters too.
Good for you but terrible strategy if you think Brown better than Labour/Greens, seriously.
Jeez, Martyn! How long are you going to bang “The Election Was Rigged!” drum?
It wasn’t. There were drop-boxes for citizens’ postal votes every 300-500 metres (they’re called post-boxes).
Efeso failed to fire.
Older voters remained democratically motivated (unlike younger voters).
Wayne Brown won fair and square.
Stop channeling crazy Trumpist impulses – it makes you sound weird.
And I have argued many times Comrade why the private run Mayoral election suppresses the vote of the poor
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2023/04/20/so-lets-talk-about-how-wayne-brown-won-a-rigged-mayoral-election-and-can-the-supercity-be-fixed/
Hi Chris, I know anecdotal claims don’t trump paper trail evidence, but…
The only people in Auckland that I know who received their ballot papers were home owners. My partner, my eldest daughter, and myself didn’t get sent ours, and we have lived in the same house since 2014. Not one of my co workers who rent, received theirs. I’m not going to claim corruption, but hey… if this incompetence or tight fisted cost cutting happened during a national election, then you could possibly expect wellington riot mark two.
On the day of the election I had to go into the voting station in central Auckland, where I had to register as a voter, even though I have been a registered voter for 25 years, so that i could cast my vote. The que at the voting office went out of their office, down a stairwell and out onto the sidewalk. Apart from myself, everyone in that line was under the age of 25.
I’m not going to say the election was rigged, but was it run well? No. Should the company that ran it be allowed to do so again? I wouldn’t let them comb their own hair unsupervised.
Perhaps in future the electoral commission should have some oversight to local body election. That’ll keep left and right wing voters happy.
Regards.
What could sink Wayne Brown is not the ribald humour, although the Alison Mau “bitter and twisted” drink was both accurate and funny. As was the Barry Soper gag priceless. No, it will be simple things.
Yesterday on a typical rainy Auckland day, the drains were blocked on Quay Street, Nelson St and numerous other roads, real basic shit that causes flooding. If this Mr Fixit can’t see and implement that basic simple drainage maintenance that Auckland Council fails to do, like forever, that majorly aggravated the damage caused on Anniversary Day, the same one that led to pointless “states of emergency” and empty central government announcements, then he’s gone.
If AT continue with the nanny state woke raised speed platforms, 30 km/hr speed limits and traffic lights everywhere of abundance of caution whilst raising rates, he’s gone! It may take a change of government to arrest the Waka Kotahi woke effect, however.
It wont be the Trumpian rigged election madness, not Simon Wilson (who grows Browns voter base btw) but the real basics he was voted in for, that he fails to address!
Graeme Henry….I love the analogy….(as an ex-soccer player)