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trixtahBecause now that NZ is going to be run by stick-in-the-mud wankers, fundamentalists, and free-market arseholes, I don't want to be there anyway. Helen Clark won't be able to horse-trade herself out of that debacle (by doing creative coalition negotiation).
Here's hoping the Nats cock up the next 3 years so badly, the lefties will get in by a landslide next time (having learned their lessons about complacency). I'm glad the Greens polled more than ACT (free-market arseholes who like selling off national infrastructure) and United Future (fundamentalists, although they don't say they are too overtly) put together. In an interesting development, the Māori Party only got just over 2% of the votes (Māori are around 13% of the population). I hope that Tariana Turia uses this as a time of reflection. Because if she thinks National and their cronies will give her what she wanted, she's SoL (she encouraged Māori party voters to consider National, because she has such an animus against the Labour Party).
Oh, and fucking Roger Douglas in Cabinet? How utterly wonderful. NZ just bought back the bloody railways (after the PM-to-be's company of the time snaffled them up at the firesale put on by their National Party mates). Definitely buh-bye to national infrastructure, then. And as much of the super and the best accident compensation scheme in the world as they can get their hands on.
Here's hoping the Nats cock up the next 3 years so badly, the lefties will get in by a landslide next time (having learned their lessons about complacency). I'm glad the Greens polled more than ACT (free-market arseholes who like selling off national infrastructure) and United Future (fundamentalists, although they don't say they are too overtly) put together. In an interesting development, the Māori Party only got just over 2% of the votes (Māori are around 13% of the population). I hope that Tariana Turia uses this as a time of reflection. Because if she thinks National and their cronies will give her what she wanted, she's SoL (she encouraged Māori party voters to consider National, because she has such an animus against the Labour Party).
Oh, and fucking Roger Douglas in Cabinet? How utterly wonderful. NZ just bought back the bloody railways (after the PM-to-be's company of the time snaffled them up at the firesale put on by their National Party mates). Definitely buh-bye to national infrastructure, then. And as much of the super and the best accident compensation scheme in the world as they can get their hands on.
