Labour is in big trouble in Auckland. Every single one of their many brands and personalities is damaged and the recent AECT election have proved that. The left wing is so fractured and splintered they haven’t got a hope of defeating a united Centre-right under the banner of Citizens and Ratepayers.
In the recent AECT election not one of the Powerlynk ticket got elected. For those who don’t know the Powelynk ticket is the Labour/Green “brand”. Their incumbent trustee Shale Chambers came sixth in the final voting and Kate Sutton came 8th. Their full ticket of Shale Chambers, Trustee for the past two terms, Simon Mitchell, Jenny Agnew, David Hay and Kate Sutton all got slayed.
Now would be a good time to call into question whether Labour activist Shale Chambers is qualified to sit on the NZ Post Board any longer. In fact the whole board could do with a clean out from the traitor at the top to the union flunky Ken Douglas. But I digress.
PowerLynk had some powerful endorsements. Mayoral contenders Len Brown and Mike Lee both endorsed PowerLynk in their brochures but that still didn’t help their prospects. Despite trying to hide their strong Labour links PowerLynk was annihilated in the AECT election and the endorsement of Mayoral hopefuls Brown and Lee haven’t helped them.
That then moves us to CityVision, another of the Labour/Green party brands that is tarnished if not destroyed completely. CityVision was strongly behind one of the worst mayors in Auckland’s history, Dick Hubbard. Beset with internal struggles and infighting CityVision is a brand not worth having. It stands for nothing. It isn’t Labour and it isn’t Green.
Labour’s own brand was destroyed at the last election in the trouncing of labour candidates city wide except in South Auckland and three seats that are essentially West Auckland. Since the election the support for Labour in seats like Mt Roskill and new Lynn would have been eroded even further. Labour’s tide is clearly still going out and with less than a year to go before the loval body elections their strategy anf planning and branding is in disarray.
Even the mayoral hopefuls are beset with double-dealing, fighting and poor branding. Len Brown and Mike lee have spiked their chances by backing the losing AECT ticket PowerLynk and Len Brown in particular may have shot his bolt early.
Labour and all their hangers on face an uphill battle to gain any traction or credibility in the new Super City and that goes for Len Vrowns powerbase in South Auckland. The AECT election cover a great deal of South Auckland and yet not one of Labour’s PowerLynk brand flunkies got elected.
The swing is still very much to the centre right and there C&R have been very smart in making peace and amalgamating and uniting the centre right brands under one banner. Citizens and Ratepayers have a cohesive strategy, a formidable team and most importantly they are united and focused on one goal. It is a goal they will achieve mostly because their opponents have systematically destroyed their own credibility and branding.
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Cam, please don’t link to the Len Brown rapping video again please. I can’t control myself from watching it and having to endure that awful feeling of cringing, embarrassment.
Personally, I didn’t think the embarrassing spectacle of the Mallard/Hodgson dancing moment could ever be topped.
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Long may it last. The Left and their ilk should never grace the halls of power again. They have not got the intelligence nor the moral integrity to govern.
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Any child of mine which displays leftist tendencies will be banished to Siberia, where all lefties should be sent. They can then hug each other for warmth until their much vaunted human created global warming thaws the tundra and they can grow mangoes.
F@#k the left and everything they stand for, they pi@@ me right the F@#k off
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are you sure WOBH?? no mention about this on Redalert .. hehe
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Lets go to the tape:
Banks got 45,000 votes in 2007 and won
Yet in 2004 he got 46000 votes and LOST
Thats right he got even less votes but still was able to use the step ladder to sit in the mayoral Chair.
WE have an incredible shrinking mayor and his shrinking votes.
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I think Labour has lost the liberal issues left to the Greenz and they have damaged the working class Aucklander. The Papatoetote and Otara tribes are loyal — tribal — but if they are ignored for too long they will rebel.
The more the gNats and CitRats have aspirational people from all backgrounds standing, the less Labour can tell Papatoetoe and Otara “they are not like you!”
Labour has lost Helen. It needs a generational change to survive — and if they don’t start now, (Bill English DID do some good when the polls were down as leader. He let the gNats recruit John) then they will be seen as irrelevant and some other party will take over the left.
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Tart, you miss an important fact.
In 2007, the turnout was much much lower. Taking that into account,
banksie had a thumping win.
Besides, doesn’t it suggest banksie got it right and the left got it terribly wrong?
Back to the main issue, yes, it looks like Auckland labour are failures.
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So relying on a smaller turnout to win ? And that works more than once?.
He be made to wear the millions in cost for the leaky homes. See how he trys to spin that one Even Hooten wouldnt take that job on
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Well, all that can be said to that is “we won, you lost, eat that.…. ”
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Cameron is right, Labour have burnt too many bridges, fucked too many people over and troughed at too many public funds — the public and trad labuour supporters have deserted them, I still love the media story (RNZ?) about the Carr Road Panel Beaters who were planniing to vote National in the leadup to the last election campaign ie well befoore the campaign started. Says it all really.
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more bad news for the labour party this morning. they’e lost their moral compass according to the herald on sunday. rickie barker and darren hughes were both roasted as liars and cheats.
maybe some other labour politicians in auckland have moral compasses that need some realigning too.…lots of tales of infidelity, verbal abuse and more. it’s a very real possibility that labour have not yet plunged as low as they can go in the polls and the minds of the public.
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Belt. Way.
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In the employment context when an employee destroys the trust and confidence which underpins that relationship, the employer may terminate said employee. This has been what labour has ultimately experienced. Sadly, we couldn’t throw every last one of them out, hence we are left with a few blood sucking, troughing oxygen thieves.
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Are you out of your mind? Labour are 30% behind National, so Labour’s problems are only relevant to the Wellington Beltway?
With delusional behaviour like that, Labour must be very happy to have you as their online cheeleader mediatart. it helps confirm the problem.
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Labour have the same credibility problem elsewhere — last election in Hutt City not one of their candidates won a seat on council. Yes, the same city where Mallard has a 6000 majority.
Of course, it was their own stupidity — first they picked a nice but inexperienced and naive candidate, then denied they were really the Labour Party, but attacked their opponents as being National Party lackies.
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Its time for a change only works ONCE.
Look at what happened after the landslides won by Muldoon & Bolger.
Act would be lucky to have Rodney ‘walked out on wife for hottie’ Hide back in Epsom, especially as Nikki Kaye will want a safe haven
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Rodney walked on his wife because she was a nagging, force feeding control freak. He walked out to be on his own. He subsequently met Louise. If you are going to smear at least get the facts right.
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Good ol’ Mediatwat and his leftist spin.
You’re getting hammered, deal with it.
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Yeah that happens all the time, Guy walks out ( highly unusual as its the woman who goes) and finds a unemployed squash professional 20 years younger.
Pleeeease. Just the thing for election time for a leaflet drop. With the 20 yr difference in bold print.
People draw their own conclusions.
First there was ‘Im entitled’ Douglas , now we have ’ Im not a martyr ’ Hide.
His words ( about freeloading politicians) will come back to bit his sorry arse come election time, and National can have Epsom back
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Check your history , its Labour that rises, on the following election, when in Government and National that falls — big time
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Haven’t you been getting enough Donkey Dick up the gazza glitter MT?
You seem a bit backed up ?
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If you were my partner hee haw, Id have plenty of time to study the cracks on the ceiling
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Funny Miss Squash Racket skives off to Amsterdam as soon as Rodney was ’ fed up’ and ditched his Missus of 20 years.
looked like there wasnt just one partner ‘dropped’ at the end of Dancing with the Stars
WE could check his passport to see any Schipol customs stamps
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Mediatart — which Labour politician left his wife for a pregnant woman, then ran back to his wife, only to get ditched by the scorned woman?
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Really was she 20 years younger? And did the taxpayer front up $25000 of travel for 3 months
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Why the fuck hasn’t mediatart and all the other lefties been banned?;
The’ve got no support in NZ — the only reason they aren’t in jail is ‘cos Key’s too damn nice.
But we don’t need them here. Ever.
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Precisely. ANd that’s why MMP is such a bad idea.
If we had FPP, the Labour party would no longer exist.
If we had an anti-corruption commission, the Labour party would all be in jail, along with their union mates.
not surprising nobody wants to vote for them
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