Smudge
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He also won't work with the Greens. So a Labour/NZF combo will fall short.
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2017 NZ General Election
- Thread starter Athlai
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Athlai
Not Terrible
I think he'd accept them eating his table scraps
Smudge
Well-known member
Fancy a wager?
Smudge
Well-known member
You're on. One month of an avatar of the winner's choice once the Government is formed. You have any form of Government featuring Labour and I have any form of Government featuring National. Deal?
Athlai
Not Terrible
Deal.
Athlai
Not Terrible
100% not happening either way. This time he really for suresies and no fakesies is the queenmaker.
_Ed_
Well-known member
Been a while since a Labour leader has polled in the 20s for preferred PM. With that, I think Rodney Hide's Winston-as-PM scenario is a goner.
Flem274*
123/5
Would be terrible for the country if so. In the post TPP world we have a lot of trade agreements to negotiate, our ageing population issue needs a sorting out sooner rather than later, his ideal economic NZ is a 1950s fairy tale we can never go back to, and to top it off he's a racist old bastard who will have god knows what impact on internal and external race relations.
he represents the worst impulses of both the reactionary idiot and the fossil, but he's been getting away with it for decades because he's entertaining.
Athlai
Not Terrible
I do agree that the landline skew may be a real thing but people exaggerate it so much.
Bahnz
Well-known member
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/1...ankly-magnificent-new-tool-for-election-2017/
Here's a handy feature for making sense of what the different parties are actually proposing to do (though probably worth noting for the skeptically minded that Spinoff generally leans slightly left in its political reporting).
Here's a handy feature for making sense of what the different parties are actually proposing to do (though probably worth noting for the skeptically minded that Spinoff generally leans slightly left in its political reporting).
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Bahnz
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I don't think he'd enjoy the role that much either. Too much work, not enough perks (he was also pretty miserable by all accounts when he was Treasurer back in Bolger's government, a few of my colleagues told me that he used to literally fall asleep in officials meetings). Winston is a lying, schmoozing, amoral chameleon, so he's a natural fit for a diplomatic position (i.e. Minister of Foreign Affairs). He loved his stint in the last government, and by all accounts was bloody good at it too. Wouldn't be surprised to see him return to the post after the election.
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Athlai
Not Terrible
On the Fence is back
Labour at 85.1%
National NZ First Greens - 83%
United Future 80%
Maori party 73.4%
TOP 69.1%
ACT 48.3%
Labour at 85.1%
National NZ First Greens - 83%
United Future 80%
Maori party 73.4%
TOP 69.1%
ACT 48.3%