Metro on Auckland MPs
A month or so ago, Metro Magazine got five (unnamed) press gallery members to rank the Auckland MPs. They now have a blog, so the article is now online.
Now I actually disagree with a fair few of their rankings (esp their love affair with the minor party MPs), but for those interested, here are their rankings:
- Helen Clark 8.5
- Phil Goff 8.2
- Sue Bradford 8.0
- John Key 7.8
- David Cunliffe 7.0
- Hone Harawira 6.8
- Pita Sharples 6.8
- Keith Locke 6.4
- Chris Carter 6.0
- Murray McCully 5.8
- Maryan Street 5.8
- Judith Collins 5.6
- Jackie Blue 5.2
- Nanaia Mahuta 5.2
- Jonathan Coleman 5.0
- Paula Bennett 4.6
- Tau Henare 4.6
- Mark Gosche 4.2
- Paul Hutchison 4.2
- Ross Robertson 4.2
- Lockwood Smith 4.0
- Pansy Wong 4.0
- Wayne Mapp 3.8
- Maurice Williamson 3.8
- Rodney Hide 3.6
- Clem Simich 3.6
- George Hawkins 3.2
- Lynne Pillay 3.0
- Richard Worth 3.0
- Darien Fenton 2.6
- Ann Hartley 2.4
- Allan Peachey 2.3
- Dave Heroera 1.7
- Ashraf Choudary 1.3
- Judith Tizard 1.0
- Taito Philip Field 0.6
The means and median scores are:
- Labour, 4.1 mean, 3.7 median
- National 4.5 mean, 4.2 median
- Third Parties 6.3 mean, 6.8 median
As I said, I don’t agree with a fair number of the ratings. Rodney Hide below Ross Robertson is just insane, for example.
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April 14th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Buggered if I know what Sue Bradford has done to deserve such a high rating. Tizard deserves her 1 out of ten, Hide’s ranking seems fair (what’s he actually done to deserve more?), Simich probably deserves no more than 2, and Williamson is a bit unfairly treated, he’s probably more like a 5.5. Pita Sharples should be a 7, Harawira more like 5.5 or 6. Pansy Wong does well here too – I’d rate her around 3 with Lynne Pillay.
April 14th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
“Hide’s ranking seems fair (what’s he actually done to deserve more?)”
Three words –
Regulatory Responsibility Bill.
April 14th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Anyone placed below Ross Robertson is insane
April 14th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Not naming the journo’s is completely gutless.
Is Maryan Street an Auckland based MP – last I saw she was contesting Nelson. This suggests that in all likelihood she lives in Wellington or perhaps in Nelson.
Metro isn’t worth even looking at on political issues generally. It’s a pitty they used to make a contribution.
April 14th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
where is tanczos..?
oh..!..auckland ones..
as you were..
phil(whoar.co.nz)
and..for..hide..those..three..words.would..be..said..very..slowly..eh..?
so..the top nine have bradford/locke/harawira/sharples..
and key..
(heh..!..)
dosen’t say much for nationals’ front-bench/mp’s..eh..?
mccully..?..
(heh..!
(and how about those two (supposed) stars of the ’05 intake..eh..?
peachy..and blumsky..
damp squibs anyone..?
April 14th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Sushi Goblin said: Buggered if I know what Sue Bradford has done to deserve such a high rating.
How about getting two Acts through Parliament and (both of which required considerable negotiating skills to get the numbers), and a third one well on the way that will be enacted before the end of the Parliamentary term. And that’s with a backbencher’s level of staffing support, rather than an army of Ministerial staff at her disposal. Plus her quasi-Ministerial role as Government Spokesperson for Buy Kiwi Made. She’s achieved a hell of a lot more than many Ministers, so I think deserves her high ranking.
Tizard fully deserves her lowly ranking – just can’t understand why they keep her on.
April 14th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
“And that’s with a backbencher’s level of staffing support, rather than an army of Ministerial staff at her disposal. Plus her quasi-Ministerial role as Government Spokesperson for Buy Kiwi Made.”
Bradford has Ministerial staff.
April 14th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Bradford has the Ministerial feminist agenda at her cowardly finger tips.
April 14th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Toad, so Bradford was responsible for getting two acts through parliament was she. Very easy to be clever when you have the Liarbore slime by their balls.
April 14th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
“..How about getting two Acts through Parliament and (both of which required considerable negotiating skills to get the numbers), and a third one well on the way that will be enacted before the end of the Parliamentary term..”
how about giving her the pot portfolio..?..then..?
phil(whoar.co.nz)
April 14th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
How could anyone give Field a positive rating?
And, is Clem still in Parliament? Who would have thought!
I noticed the other day that Maryan doesn’t own a house in Auckland any longer. Therefore, I can’t see how she qualifies as a jafa now that she’s returned to the Mainland. we’re very particular about these things, you know!
April 14th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
“..when you have the Liarbore slime by their balls..”
ew..!..slimey balls.. !
what a fervid little mind you have there..’bloody-hands’-bob..
phil(whoar.co.nz)
April 14th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Dad
“Bradford has the Ministerial feminist agenda at her cowardly finger tips”
Once again Dad WTF. You are saying Feminism is cowardly? And your incessant abuse and lunacy is what exactly….?
People I implore you, find this guys internet connection (the copper wire outside his house) and do the world a favor cut the bloody thing.
April 14th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
That they asked members of the press gallery to do the rating is enough to not even bother with this.
April 14th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Hmmm Rodney.
I used to rate him highly. He is my MP and I tend to right of centre, and have in the past been a card carrying ACT voter.
However the new ‘ post Dancing with the Stars – trimmed down Rodders’ is not in the same league as the old one. The old chubby Rodney feisty perk buster was the bloke I liked.
Many people here in the Epsom electorate feel exactly the same, and I suggest it is only the pragmatic who will tick the ACT box , and even then it will stick in their craw.
Rodney deserves his place below Ross Robertson.
April 14th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Do we get a link to the article? Rodney Hide has the RRB, but big DEAL, full credit for introducing it, but is anything HAPPENING with it?
April 14th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
disgusting post farra,
do not do labour thing farrar ,
you think with them labour stuff,
you try to make us good people, strong NZ people
how could you post this thing farrar,
these sicklings, weaklings, why do you do this to us farra,
i mean can you pull you finger out and do something strong brother nm, please don’t post these weaklings
this NEW ZEALAND NAT GOVT 2008
do not post garbage
people we love
NEW ZEALAND so strong now farrar
April 14th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Stephen,
Rodney’s bill is at Select Committee, due to be reported back in a couple of months.
April 14th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Allan Peachey rated below Ann Hartley? She was so incompetent she couldn’t even raise her profile as Deputy Speaker. As ineffectual as they come. Allan Peachey is at least a first term MP, still coming to grips with the whole mess. He at least used to work for a living.
Nice to see Taito where he belongs though.
April 14th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
I understand that Ross Robertson is personally well liked around Parliament, whereas Rodney has been a polarising figure for a while – even after the dancing he still has a legacy. Likewise with Sue Bradford, she is respected if not always agreed with.
But it’s good to see National’s 2005 intake (generally) higher on the list than Labours newer MPs – a good sign for the future of National in Auckland.
April 14th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
“Many people here in the Epsom electorate feel exactly the same, and I suggest it is only the pragmatic who will tick the ACT box , and even then it will stick in their craw.”
Can you honestly say that Richard Worth(less) is a better electorate MP for epsom than Rodney?
April 14th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
It is disappointing about Allan Peachey he does a hell of a lot of work around the Tamaki Electorate and is well respected.
I suppose its hard to get up the journalist scales when your not ranting about things that don’t matter and instead are actually working as an MP.
April 14th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
what exactly has rodney done..?..as an electorate mp..?..that makes him stand out..?
all that national in epsom needs is a backbencher fop..to make up the numbers..
worth is emininitly ‘up for that’..
it’d be nice if hide and peters both disappeared come election time..
and act’ll have everything hanging on hide in epsom..
the disinterring of douglas guarantees they won’t reach 5%..
(and the raising of that particular spectre from his political grave..
..will go down in the annals as one of the bad ideas of all time..)
phil(whoar.co.nz)
April 14th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
What a shock! We thought the Press Gallery mob were just dumb!
Metro’s poll indicates they are retarded. A flighty flock of lefty, liberal, Green-gibbering, manly feminists and girly men!
April 14th, 2008 at 9:45 pm
Unless I’m mistaken, Mr Chaudary’s main contribution to NZ society has been to facilitate prostitution in our fair land when he chose to abstain rather than vote against it. Given his background, this was an act of monumental hypocrisy.
I would place him at the bottom of this dreary list.
Southern Raider: I agree with your comment about Allan Peachey. He talks a lot of sense in a low-key, rational kind of way. Just the sort of thing to which much of the media is allergic.
April 14th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Southern Raider – I guess it all depends on who you talk to. My experience is obviously different to yours.
April 14th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
KT (mate you are just anti toffee really, again you’ll be telling me Liverpool are the better team)
“facilitate prostitution” I think you find that it’s been in NZ since about the time of the gold rush or before. Because 1 person abstained that does not make them the casting vote, who else voted for it. He had very good reasons for abstaining, including the belief that the Laws of Islam are not the Laws of this land where he is an elected official.
thank god we decriminalised prostitution, it was a greater hypocrisy with what we had, women criminals for making money.
Jack5 is everyone in this post about the age you are suggesting 5. I mean I’ve been here a while today and the amount of name calling that has gong on is quite incredible.
April 14th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
“I mean I’ve been here a while today”
Do you say that too your therapists at the head case clinic Paul?
April 14th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Paul
Forget the footie – if you can – and try to stick to the point, please.
By my reckoning, Mr Chaudary had it within his power to stop that piece of legislation. I don’t know what’s in his conscience, of course, but I would have thought that as a Muslim he was duty-bound to act in a way which made prostitution more difficult to be practised not less.
One of the key criticisms Muslims make of societies such as ours is that we are too liberal, especially in sexual matters. His vote made it easier and more acceptable for people to be or use a prostitute.
April 14th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Kiwitoffee… Prostitution has been going on in NZ long before Choudray was born.
And since its been legalised, I’ve been told that the number of knockshops has significantly decreased, as the profit has dropped out of the market.
Of course you can go on supporting such a ban, which simply suggests that women don’t own their own body, and shouldn’t be able to make decisions as to hwo they use it.
One would hope that Chouray continues to be a hypocrite considering his religion… the last thing we need is his, or any other religion influenceing our laws in in any way, shape or form.
And various muslim nations have their own forms of prostitution (i.e. Irans on hour marriages which are known as “sigheh” in arabic)
As for christians, donlt get me started on Jesus’s acceptance of Mary Magdiline etc..
Kiwitoffee, what societal good comes from treating such women as criminals and sending them to jail? or worse, having laws with put them at the mercy of corrupt police.
April 14th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
Ross Robertson is a great local representative, a great MP and a great all round guy. Rodney who?
April 14th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Tamaki Resident if your a supporter of Selwyn College in its current disfunctional state then Allan probably wouldn’t be on your Christmas Card list.
However if you want to turn around education in NZ and stop 1/3 of people leaving school not being able to read and write then he is the man for the job.
April 14th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
oh great a lickspittle comment from the ambulance chaser from Botany.
April 14th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
MikeE
Of course, the first point you make is correct.
I doubt very much that the bottom (sorry!) has fallen out of the brothel market. I don’t know and wouldn’t like to do the research. But given our predilection for sex, the expression of it everywhere in our public space and our increasing preference for ‘guilt-free’, instant gratification, I doubt it somehow.
The question is whether we should make prostitution easier, accessible and respectable. Unlike you and Mr Choudary, I’m saying no.
April 14th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
Is he from Botany? Or is he a carpet-bagger?
April 14th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
“Tizard fully deserves her lowly ranking – just can’t understand why they keep her on.”
I would love to tell you but I would no doubt get demerit points.
April 15th, 2008 at 6:44 am
Paul: “thank god we decriminalised prostitution”. Thoughtful line, that one.
April 15th, 2008 at 8:33 am
do you ever get your head out of your underpants..?..chucky..?
phil(whoar.co.nz)
April 15th, 2008 at 8:53 am
Just because something is legal does not make it respectable- telemarketers anyone…
Thanks James W, I guess the RRB has just been hanging around for quite a long time and I though maybe it had dropped off the radar, but I recall that quite a few parties were keen to at least look at it, so it might go somewhere after all.
April 15th, 2008 at 8:58 am
“do you ever get your head out of your underpants..?..chucky..?”
Does drongo Bradford ever think of having an extreme makeover?
Edit;Is Judith the Labour cuddly bear?
April 15th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Toad
I understand Judith is retained because of her close connection to Helen
April 15th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
“The question is whether we should make prostitution easier, accessible and respectable. Unlike you and Mr Choudary, I’m saying no.”
That was not the question, the quesion which was voted on was should it be legal.
Why shouldn’t it be easier, accessable etc for consenting adults, what right do you or I have to control what some adult voluntarily does with their own body providing they cause no harm to anyone else?
As for the market dropping, there have been quite a few artiles (unforuntarly not online) regarding people hoping to cash in on the industry once it was legal, and finding that the profit margins have fallen out of it once its legal (which is basic economics – criminalise something and the profits increase for those willing to take the risk), legalise and open up to competition and quality (i.e safety) increases while profit decreases (which forces the dodgy operators out of the market.
But feel free to force your morals on others and support sending poor women to jail for what they do it it makes you feel all high and mighty.
April 16th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
MikeE
If you make something legal you make it, er, easier and accessible and maybe even respectable.
By the way, I don’t feel ‘all high and mighty’ about this issue, quite the opposite in fact, but thanks for the invitation.
March 31st, 2009 at 9:47 pm
Interesting to look at this list again now. It still reflects performance to a fair degree.
Richard Worth has had a good bollocking from John Key, so NZ Herald says today. A conflict of interest it says. Worth’s ranking looks high at Number 29. But then he is just 3 places above low-flying Allan Peachey, who needs to see the big Education picture if he is to contribute in that area. He may now be too late, given that Anne Tolley (no educationalist) Is in fact the minister.
Judith Collins looks flattered at Number 12 after the Corrections CEO debacle.
Having been voted NZ’s most distinguished living person, and also with her appointment to the UN – Helen Clark deserves her ranking at Number One. Already she is sorely missed. Phil Goff at Number 2 suggests that we can see better things from him when Parliament resumes in earnest.
It would be good to see a fresh poll from these journalists towards the end of this year.