Winston confirms candidacy for Tauranga
June 22nd, 2008 at 7:58 pm by David FarrarWinston has finally confirmed what we all know – he is standing for Tauranga:
… today we are talking about a comeback.
Not a comeback aimed at personal glory but a comeback aimed at righting the wrongs of the last three years of an incompetent incumbent.
An incumbent frightened of a rematch – he has run scared.
He has embarrassed the people of Tauranga for three years and has delivered nothing.
This is a comeback which will bring hope to Tauranga again.
This will be very interesting. He seems to still be campaigning against Bob Clarkson rather than his actual opponent of Simon Bridges.
Now you have to ask yourselves one simple question – who has been the real MP for Tauranga over the past three years.
Who has delivered – just as he said he would?
In many ways I have never stopped being the MP for Tauranga.
Well yes he has apart from the fact he moved out of the electorate, now lives in Auckland and also closed down his Tauranga office. Minor details the good people of Tauranga may recall.
Who will deal with the revolting scourge of gangs – wrecking their p-crazed violence and havoc on innocent New Zealanders?
Tauranga is not immune from this scourge. We need a voice of experience and strength.
We need a leader who can look these criminals in the eye and not flinch.
Wow, sounds like we need someone who say has been a crown prosecutor!
June 22nd, 2008 at 8:01 pm
like, wow. hold the presses.
Vote:June 22nd, 2008 at 8:07 pm
The Comeback Kid. Cool, even more airmiles for his old age. I mean if you went away, you have to come back, right?
Perhaps he is using the speech he thought he was going to need, and just hasn’t got round to writing a new one? Most uncharacteristic of WInston to be caught out so badly prepared, I must say. Mind you he only had a month’s notice, so I could overlook the gaffe. I mean, he’s not supernman after all.
Vote:June 22nd, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Who will deal with the revolting scourge of gangs – wrecking their p-crazed violence and havoc on innocent New Zealanders?
Does Winston think he has been in opposition the last three years or something?
Vote:June 22nd, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Has anyone noticed that Winston is increasingly using the so called ‘royal’ whenever he talks about himself? It is quite pronounced, he was doing it on the news tonight .
Vote:I really think he has lost the plot and needs putting out of our misery
June 22nd, 2008 at 8:25 pm
I loved the self-comparison with Muhammed Ali and Tiger Woods!!
http://keepingstock.blogspot.com/2008/06/winston-ali.html
Vote:June 22nd, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Winston said “Who will deal with the revolting scourge of gangs – wrecking their p-crazed violence and havoc on innocent New Zealanders?
Tauranga is not immune from this scourge. We need a voice of experience and strength.
We need a leader who can look these criminals in the eye and not flinch”
Sounds like an endorsement for Simon Bridges!!!
Vote:June 22nd, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Could anyone confirm as-yet unsubstantiated reports that “Winston First” is back? I heard he was the only one who actually turned up to Omanu Bowling Club to hear himself speak
And this is classic Winston First rhetoric:
Pfft. What a joke.
Vote:June 22nd, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Nomestradamus’ comment is interesting.
Vote:I had been thinking that, contrary to all the poncy columnists, Winston was in with a chance now that Clarkson had resigned.
But that piece about Omanu will be very worrying to the Winston First people. Omanu is smack bang dead in the middle of Winston’s supporters area.
June 22nd, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Tauhei Notts
Just to clarify: my tongue was firmly in my cheek when I said that! I’m curious about how many Winston supporters showed up though.
Edit: Latest Colmar Brunton poll results here:
Vote:June 22nd, 2008 at 9:00 pm
To Nomestradamus- It will probably be in the Bay of Plenty Times tomorrow. I will let you know.
Vote:June 22nd, 2008 at 9:04 pm
“I loved the self-comparison with Muhammed Ali and Tiger Woods!!”
Good one Inventory2.
Winny the pooh, can float like a butterfly after a 12 round para session on the hard liquor, however the morning after on the course he can sting like flea when repeatedly hitting out from a sand bunker, hole after hole, until he reaches the 19th for round one again.
Vote:June 22nd, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Its a fascinating sight seeing Peters acting as if it were back in the glory days when he managed to fool most of the people most of the time. The electorate has moved on and now Winston First is seen as nothing more than ‘Helen’s parrot’ and a pretty old and mangy parrot at that. Its going to be a hard road for him convincing people that a vote for the Winston is not a vote for Labour.
I mean if it looks like a parrot, walks like as parrot and talks like a parrot then its a good chance it is a parrot.
Vote:June 22nd, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Ross – a “Green Parrot” perchance?
Vote:June 22nd, 2008 at 9:41 pm
Ho hum.
Vote:June 22nd, 2008 at 9:47 pm
What you probably didn’t see though DPF was the news coverage of his little meeting today.
Vote:I think he will be asking Helen for an early election as I don’t think a lot of his “fans” will make November.
They were all asleep.
For him to compare himself to Ali is nothing more than a joke, how dare he.
June 23rd, 2008 at 12:34 am
I wouldnt run with the promise of being tough on P in Tauranga. Over the last three years of his governments “actions” to reduce it, he is more than likely to lose votes.
Vote:June 23rd, 2008 at 12:49 am
There is good reason for Mr Peters to have taken so long to announce his electorate as well for him to enter in the manner he has. Unfortunately, I have missed both the coverage of this as well Simon Powers on Agenda this morning. Both are interesting and should be compared word for word; pound for pound of human flesh, that which has been, and is well possible yet to be sacrificed for the error of the generational sabotage of New Zealand’s political history.
These words sound harsh but objectively if analysed to reason they are as sound as they are objective. The community of New Zealand as it has been sold through an evolved breach of comity running consistent through our independent political bodies has come to accept as natural those injustices that lie so deep that even parliament cannot seem to force them loose. In this election it is the public who will and should force them loose. I think the comment about Winston being Superman is a good example of how quickly the country’s public will loosen from the thread of a past. Winston is Spiderman. If Winston doesn’t get it right this time, he won’t just lose Tauranga he will lose control of the country, if not more.
Winston Peters is one of the cleverest politicians in the New Zealand House of Representatives. His team has been bolstered from the reintroduction of Dail Jones and they are set as best as they are able to meet the onslaught that is in front of the country in a very short period. Ron Mark too seems too, although this sets him further away from the two others seems recently to have accommodate more humility. This may set him in a different league from Peters or Jones if he uses it to learn rather than to parade like a newborn peacock around the halls and walls of a Pacific Island Beehive. In all, and this is not to dismiss the values or deficiencies of the other party (or parties) members and a team of New Zealand/or New Zealand First is exactly the wider girth of our national dilemma: We, (that is the country)/will see. Is Winston an actor, a fool or a responsible New Zealand citizen, is the fuller question.
Today, I meet with Simon Power, in part and only briefly on the issue of law and order as being laundered in the public. From the brief news item I saw on the television he has responded to the national crisis with early decorum. It will be interesting to see how he will stand against the real and primary questions that are put to him and through him to National. If he cannot stand up to them then he should expect to lose the election, as should Winston. They would lose either to chaos or the Maori Party as these are the only two parties at the moment other than aforesaid with either logical or direct stakes to redress the extraordinary damage the nation has suffered. Additionally those stakes have to be used as seems more likely given history to ‘patch’ from the unforgiving pressure under which the nation is now strained and set to break.
As for Labour, I believe they remain the only party with any real hope of stepping in the way of the rising emergency and as well with any (as) responsibility, to credibly curb the horror that is quickly unfolding. If Helen Clark doesn’t admit that the gender agenda will be crushed through the natural tenacity of man rather than for any political brain then her defeat will be crushing and forever tattoo her efficiency as a bad stain over society.
Winston Peters as should have been expected has timed his entry perfectly even though the nation has been slow to accept what the real burden of challenge is to be. Now it is time to see if he is ready for his real political test.
Sons and daughters need their dads.
Vote:June 23rd, 2008 at 1:28 am
All Simon has to do is remind TGA voters what Winston said on Agenda; that Labour could form the government despite coming second to National in the party vote.
^Hello… he’s implying that he may back Labour even if Helen comes second to John.
Winston has never gone into an election after propping up a Labour government. Somehow I think his usual batch of conservative voters maybe harder to win around this time!
Winston = Labour.
Vote:June 23rd, 2008 at 5:54 am
… today we are talking about a comeback.
Not a comeback aimed at personal glory but a comeback aimed at righting the wrongs of the last three years of an incompetent incumbent.
I honestly thought he was talking about Labour!
Vote:June 23rd, 2008 at 8:13 am
It will be good to see the back of Winston. As Labour hemorrhages more and more of its own voters the task of removing Winston becomes more difficult.
The country really doesn’t need to sit on hands for another three years which is what would happen if Winston became part of the next government. We’ve already wasted the last nine years.
For the moment it looks like the electorate aren’t listening to what Winston or anyone else associated with the current government has to say, which is good.
Vote:June 23rd, 2008 at 8:25 am
He ignored Tauranga for 3 years while he lived with his girlfriend and swanned around the world. Now facing political oblivian he says Tauranga I need you. I am the come back kid. Sure he has his supporters at the Omanu bowling club but not much else I suggest. And Omanu is not even in the electorate and he thinks Bob Clarkson is still running for election. I think he is ga ga.
Vote:June 23rd, 2008 at 9:37 am
This post says he has closed down his office. This is incorrect, because I pass it every day on my way to work. Its in Greerton, Tauranga. No supporter of Winston, but get your facts right.
Vote:June 23rd, 2008 at 9:51 am
The first TGA opinion polls are going to be interesting.
Vote:June 23rd, 2008 at 10:08 am
Winston actually manifests a known psychological disorder. It is called excessively optimistic attributional style as outlined by Prof. Martin Seligman. Mild versions are often found in many politicians but Winston appears to have the extremely florid and rare variety. It is characterised by the 3P’s. Personal, Permanent and Pervasive. He actually believes that he has Personal characteristics that will win him a majority. He also believes that he has Always won a victory and Always will. He also believes that his victory will be the forerunner of even Greater personal Victories. It is a delusional disorder associated with frequent unrealistic expectations. There can be no cure without acceptance of need to change. Even with his defeat he will not feel humiliated. He will believe that there has been a conspiracy by the media and others and that he has been grossly and unfairly treated and ought to have won had it been a fair fight. He will be defiant and delusional to the end.
Vote:June 23rd, 2008 at 10:47 am
Fisiani,
but in a reflection within reason this is then otherwise called the tall poppy syndrome.
Vote:June 23rd, 2008 at 11:09 am
What would we do without the dustbin of history?
Vote:June 23rd, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Having observed Peters in the House regularly for the past 6 months or so it is clear he is completely irrelevant. He only stands up in question time to raise pointless points of orders.
He has looked after only himself for the past 12 years at least. Tauranga has seen through him completely and is ready to give a new person a real chance.
Simon Bridges has 16 years party experience. He’s well educated, and well connected in Tauranga. He will do very well.
Peters displays all the politics of envy that the country is looking to be rid of. We have all had enough of the dictatorial style of politics. He is seen so closely aligned to the past with Clark that I firmly believe he will be put in the past where he deserves to be.
Vote:June 23rd, 2008 at 1:47 pm
From the TV3 News website “A small group of elderly gathered to listen to Peters but not everyone seemed to consider it gripping, some stayed asleep for most of the speech.” LOL I hope someone from Winston First remembers to wake them up come polling day!
Vote:June 23rd, 2008 at 3:07 pm
is it a bird? is it a plane? NO! it’s some short dude in a pin strip suit… saving Tauranga from the scourge of gangs of crazed politicians causing havoc… oh wait, no he’s not. God he is such a boring predictable tosser, I can’t believe he takes himself seriously.
Vote:June 23rd, 2008 at 3:45 pm
“I’d be interested to know what Clarkson’s achieved over these past three years for his constituents.”
At the very least 3 years without Winston.
Vote:June 23rd, 2008 at 5:08 pm
You know I have just read and re-read Political Busker’s 12.48 and I am at a loss to figure out where he/she is coming from. Winston is sort of OK and Dail Jones is a ‘real asset’ (to whom). Ron Mark is blessed with humility!!!!! while Simon Power responds to the national crisis with decorum. And, capping it all, Labour is the only Party capable of responding to the rising national emergency.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm clearly one of the (confused) 29%.
Vote:June 23rd, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Ron Marks the best thing about NZ First. Maybe the whole parliament.
Vote:June 23rd, 2008 at 6:24 pm
In the House recently on the Family Court Matters Bill, the Minister of Courts Rick Barker is quoted for saying “the eagle eye of Dail Jones”. The reason he did this is that Mr Jones picked up for reading the Bill that there was a new provision on the CV of qualification to any newly appointed (managerial) Family Court Registrar (likely to be, skim reading the Principal Family Court Judge, Judge Boshier, a woman working part time who is a lawyer) one of personality. If you consider the provision as being an unusual component on the CV of a top official you shouldn’t wonder that Dail Jones is considered to have an ‘eagle eye’. Another time Dail Jones’s eye came into enourmous effect was on the fist reading of the Care of Children Bill 2003. This debate on June 10th in the Hansard is very much worth a read given recent judicial developments on abortion and the ethics of “ART” proclamation determining the sex of a pregnancy.
I cannot reasonably back up my comment on Ron Mark in regards to humility, other than for my own perception at recent events so my comment is retractable. For public perception, however the information was centred on his recent life saving action on a citizen stopping them from bleeding to death and his counter argument against armed police as an effect. Having saved a couple of people in circumstantial situations myself I know that the effect in humility was profound. I met with Simon Power today and I stand by my statement. He has made no promises for the information we exchanged, nor should he be so obliged.
And uncapping the final statement: if any believe that Labour after ’9 long years’ are the cause of these present social ills then if you want answers, then they are logically the best to put it right. I say logically because in political honesty they are the only ones with the full knowledge of the damage they have done. If you want it fixed, the tagger in pink should really be the one who cleans it all up.
As for Winston – well there are afew months to go yet…
Respectfully,
Benjamin Easton
Vote:(of a) father’s coalition.
June 23rd, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Is winnie linked to the mighty mongrel mob , winstons a maori and the raping mighty mongrel mob are maori, are these his party workers, ie dont support winston and a bunch of FAT BROS wearing stinking jackets with mighty mongrel mob on their back. sponsers of NZ first ( winston has never oppossed the bro mongrels only piss and wind TV words) vote mongrel vote WINSTON PETERS and a future possible bash or rape(who knows)()he loves power)
Vote:June 23rd, 2008 at 6:50 pm
If Winston is in power for getting over 5% then it is likely the Maori Party will own a similar gain, especially from those who do not believe (if our racial issues have become extreme as you suggest) that the soveriegnty issues can be handled efficiently either by chaos or any other political party.
This in my opinion negates Winston from acting irresponsibly to crime as you may be suggesting. Crime is crime whether in law or lore. The differences with the punitive codes is how the punishment is administered and by who it should be administered. If as the bulk of writers seemt o think Winston is not to be trusted with power because he likes to manipulate power then he will respond accordingly to a powerful Maori Party. To this end, where I am suggesting that the Maori party are more likely to have the kind of influence you believe will be resulting from a vote for WINSTON I would think your comments would be more accurately directed if levelled at them.
Vote:June 23rd, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Peter’s is a waste of space as are all his flunkies. The entire caucus are not worthy of my taxes paying their salaries.
Vote:June 23rd, 2008 at 7:18 pm
“And uncapping the final statement: if any believe that Labour after ‘9 long years’ are the cause of these present social ills then if you want answers, then they are logically the best to put it right. I say logically because in political honesty they are the only ones with the full knowledge of the damage they have done. If you want it fixed, the tagger in pink should really be the one who cleans it all up.”
Unfortunately Labour have no idea that they are the cause of the present social ills. They still insist on blaiming National or the international economy, the heat, the full moon, the number of liquor shops, anything but themself. They still honestly believe that they are making the country better not worse. Labour have had their chance to make the country a better place, they failed, time for the heave-ho before they make it even worse.
Vote:June 23rd, 2008 at 8:27 pm
He got rid of Winnie. Setting aside solving world hunger, that achievement is pretty hard to beat.
Vote:June 23rd, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Political Busker:
I’ve tried reading your three long posts, but they just don’t make sense. Your prose is unintelligible. It keeps sending me to sleep but I’ll try again.
zzzzzzzzzzz damn there it goes again…….zzzzzzzzzzzz………
Vote:June 24th, 2008 at 2:23 am
Sleep well Heathcote.
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