Peters rules out Tauranga
March 19th, 2010 at 10:07 am by David FarrarNewstalkZB reports:
New Zealand first leader Winston Peters will not contest the Tauranga seat at the next election.
Mr Peters was the MP for Tauranga for 21 years before being ousted by National’s Bob Clarkson in 2005.
Simon Bridges won it again for National at the last election.
No surprise as Winston now lives in Auckland.
Of course the fact that Simon beat Winston by a massive 32% – 57% to 25%, may be a small factor in it also!
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March 19th, 2010 at 10:18 am
yippee
Vote:March 19th, 2010 at 10:36 am
Peters should sign up for his own gold card and use the off peak travel to head to a retirement village somewhere and quietly fade away from public life…………that would bring an honourable end to a dishonourable career……….and write a book titled
” Winston Peters – Where I went wrong” (2000 pages) or “How to tell lies and get away with it -(Don’t do what I did) or
perhaps start up a group called Hypocrites Anononomous (HA)(As the founding member).
Maybe one of his racing buddies will build him a bachelor sleepout at the back end of the horse stables.
He is the reason not to drop the 5% threshold for MMP for at least 20 years.
Vote:March 19th, 2010 at 10:52 am
WOOOOOT!!!
Vote:March 19th, 2010 at 11:07 am
The correct title would have been Tauranga rules out Peters.
Vote:March 19th, 2010 at 11:17 am
good bye black bird…
Let’s give him a pity Knighthood as one of our last Privy Councillors and a pity post as a Member of The Honours Committee – Yes he was a pain in the ass but he was a legend, It’s a shame he isn’t still in Parliament doing what he did best – of course now we do have the Hon. Roger Douglas to replace him in that role and Garrett is coming along nicely
Vote:March 19th, 2010 at 11:19 am
Winston who?
Vote:March 19th, 2010 at 11:30 am
Peters rules out Tauranga five years after Tauranga rules out Peters
Vote:March 19th, 2010 at 12:23 pm
We can no doubt look forward to him and Banks duking it over.
Maybe they could have a kitty saving contest.
Vote:March 19th, 2010 at 12:33 pm
Know how to hold em…Know when to fold em
Vote:March 19th, 2010 at 1:27 pm
Has Winston’s vanity finally come to acknowledge that he is not a young and handsome fellow any longer (which all the grandmothers loved). I remember one old dear telling me that she voted for Winston because he had nice hair.
Too much booze and too much smoking makes the old fellow look even older. He is now beyond the airbrush treatment.
Of course, Bridges has to realise he will get there one day also. In Tauranga politics is nothing about policies. It is all about who your grandmother likes the look of.
Vote:March 19th, 2010 at 2:06 pm
Ahem. Sorry to spoil the party guys, but all this means is that he’s ruled out one seat from 99. He hasn’t dismissed standing in the 98 others nor has he said his “party” will abandon attempts to get over the 5% threshold – probably as it has always done, by re-hashing the stuff I wrote for him in the mid-90s.
But since it’ll be re-written by persons of lesser talent* as it has in the past, it’ll just sound like some tired old hack indulging in a semi-coherent outdated racist rant. Primarily because that’s exactly what it will be.
* Not saying there’s no one better than me in the speechwriting stakes… just that Winston has never employed them
Vote:March 19th, 2010 at 2:31 pm
Peters shoot from the lip method of lashing out is a system desgined to make a team of researchers, PR consultants and speech writers suffer invluntary bowel movements every time they see their clients face on TV.
Vote:March 19th, 2010 at 3:00 pm
I do not think we can rule out a deal between Labour and Winston, if Labour were to offer up a safe seat (i.e refuse to stand a candidate) for Winston and NZ first we could well see the bastard back in the house.
Vote:March 19th, 2010 at 3:09 pm
It has been mentioned around town that Winston has been scouting out the Hunua electorate very seriously, the home of his first electorate success where he used the law to steal the seat from Roger Douglas’s brother Malcolm.
There is merit in this seat because the sitting MP Paul Hutchison has been showing signs of rigamortis in parliament. It would be too much to expect even him to win another term, but he is with National so a chimp could win this seat.
Vote:March 19th, 2010 at 4:29 pm
I can remember back when Peters was first introduced to a National Party conference in the late ’70s – a time when he looked like he might have some potential. However, he cost himself any respect I might have had for him some time after that when it became apparent just how much of manipulating shyster he really was. Later, I grew to despise Bolger for doing the MMP deal with WinstonFirst and making Peters “Treasurer.”
A few weeks back I was informed by someone close enough to know that Peters had at last acquired the financial backing necessary to campaign in next year’s election. No one would be surprised that his “launch” won’t be Tauranga – he’ll be toast there forever – but there’re still legions of utterly blind, non-perceptive idiots all over the country, with surprising numbers of them, members of GreyPower, who can’t see beyond his flashy smile. Look for him seeking a seat that’s notable for the numbers of its elderly.
Vote:March 19th, 2010 at 4:35 pm
I thought Tauranga was a bit of a retirement village. Where can he find more grey stacked than that?
Vote:March 19th, 2010 at 4:58 pm
He should just join the Green Party and get a list seat.
Vote:March 19th, 2010 at 5:56 pm
Peters was brilliant in opposition, he didn’t care that his left hand was doing what his right hand complained about. In govt he was possibly the most high risk item NZ parliament has ever seen for exactly the same reason.
Vote:March 19th, 2010 at 5:56 pm
Tauranga is no longer a retirement village. Sick of Jaffa’s we are.
Vote:March 19th, 2010 at 5:57 pm
Peters for Howick ! On a platform of protecting the rights of Asian immigrants. I wouldn’t put it past him.
Vote:March 19th, 2010 at 6:02 pm
Peters is out of money and out of time. He has been rejected and barely gets a platform for his racist slurs any more – GreyPower in Greymouth is not going to swing the country.
I hope he returns to the election race – the 3% he should get will be 2.9% less for Labour. (the remaining 0.1% just being the sadly and confused vote.
Vote:March 19th, 2010 at 6:22 pm
deadrightkev says:
Interesting… accords with what I’ve heard. I was applying the old journalistic standard of needing at least two independent sources before running a rumour, so now I feel free to confirm it… assuming we’re not talking to the same person, of course
Positan says:
Care to name names, Positan? (The donor(s), not your informant).
Vote:March 19th, 2010 at 8:23 pm
Rex, all the information I was given is as I declared it. I wasn’t told who, or how many, donors/backers there might be.
I’ve been friends with the person who so informed me for more than 40 years. If he’d wanted me to know more, or felt he could have told me more, I’m sure he would have done so.
Vote:March 19th, 2010 at 8:26 pm
Shouldn’t the heading be ‘Tauranga rules out Peters’?
Vote:March 19th, 2010 at 8:47 pm
maybe he knew Euminedes has been active again http://roarprawn.blogspot.com/2010/03/hello-and-goodbye.html
Vote:March 19th, 2010 at 9:50 pm
You have to remember that 90,000 people voted for NZF in the last election. A ‘Grey” vote is as good as anyone elses.
It’s life as the media want us to live it these days. The media very successfully created ‘wrongdoing’ that was later proven not to be factual, but they don’t shout about that do they!
That is why I look at ‘alternative’ media – to get biased news that leans the other way, or at least might be centrist, but I’m probably kidding myself – Ha ha.
NZF have consistently topped ACT, UF and Progressive in the polls (including Curia’s flawed efforts) and the Maori party a lot of the time, and they are not even in parliament. The polling Co’s still include NZF – so why do you think that would be?
The printed media really P*** me off, in their headline grabbing, derogatory, sensationalist, negative spin on things – in order to sell printed papers. But what’s the betting the Harold lays off National just before the election – just you wait and see……
Yes, word has it that The Rt Hon Winston Peters will not be standing in an electorate seat this time. For surely his campaigning efforts would be better spent campaigning NZ wide rather than confined to an electorate.
Ask Mr Peters, why he is not responding to ‘issues’, and his retort is “The National party are doing a great job undermining themselves. We’re revising the Gold card benefits – oh, hang on, no we are not. Whanau ora is for everyone, oh no its not say their bedpartners, oh yes it is. Bloody hell, is it or isn’t it. Teflon man is surely the right moniker.
And, you don’t have to be good looking to get elected to Parliament – there are some pretty ugly MP’s there at the moment. How shallow are some of the participants making comments here – worrying trend. I suspect they are ugly looking too.
Vote:March 20th, 2010 at 8:23 am
What do you mean by Jaffa anyway is it someone Winstone warned us about (just another f* foreign aucklander) or is it some one who resides in Auckland. Because where I stand moost of the people are foreigners and they are not that sypathetic to our way of life(like speaking English) the New Zealanders who reside here seem to originate from hick towns like Tauranga are making a effort to better their former dull provincal lives.
Vote:March 20th, 2010 at 9:06 am
Jules, you’re evincing every one of the traits of a dedicated Winston First-er. I think you should try to work a little harder on recalling Peters’ parliamentary performance – the “NO” placard lie and all the other displays of arrogance that so turned off the electorate. To anyone possessed of the slightest ability to discern, the Gold Card was nothing but a bribe – and one that benefits northern North Islanders far more advantageously than in parts of the country. Honestly, I’ve never yet found a use for mine.
Instead of being clever and trying to take the mick out of National for at least trying to examine where legitimate savings could be made in curtailing demonstrably unjustifiable spending, why don’t you reflect on what you find admirable about Peters’ past performance and attitudes and question whether your interest isn’t far more selfishly focused than purporting to see any actual benefit actually rendered to the country. I’m sorry to say I’ve seen so many normally-sane Grey Power people overwhelmed by Peters and his stagecraft that my opinion of such persons’ ability to rationalise is now very much diminished. Peters is a self-interested shyster – end of story. He’s proved it so many times and there’s no room at all for that fact to be questioned.
Vote:March 20th, 2010 at 9:12 am
I think most people eventually reached that conclusion.
You have to remember that even that isn’t a high proportion of the grey vote.
Vote:March 20th, 2010 at 12:26 pm
Why someone whose been there, done that (albeit by fraud) would ever think he might be embraced by the electorate in the same way as a souffle rises second time round escapes me. I mean, who would want to touch him with a barge pole? What might he add to your brand?
Errrrrrrrr ….. silly Question. Labour would embrace the devil if it meant getting back into the drivers seat.
Vote:March 20th, 2010 at 12:47 pm
Anybody else think Jules is Winston? I just had a shudder going down my spine when I read that post!
Vote:March 20th, 2010 at 12:52 pm
No need to panic last time I spotted him the fags and the scotch were winning the battle against him fronting up in 2011.
Vote:Good riddance.
March 20th, 2010 at 12:55 pm
big bruv (5660) Says:
March 19th, 2010 at 3:00 pm
I do not think we can rule out a deal between Labour and Winston, if Labour were to offer up a safe seat (i.e refuse to stand a candidate) for Winston and NZ first we could well see the bastard back in the house.
Umm what makes you think Kia Ora Key wouldnt do a deal, like put Winston up in Epsom.
Vote:March 20th, 2010 at 4:48 pm
Clint Heine
Yes.
Vote:March 20th, 2010 at 4:51 pm
Clint
Surprised
Vote:JulesWinston isn’t posting under the nickname of ‘Spencer’.March 20th, 2010 at 7:06 pm
Dirty Rat … because Key knows Winston is a liar and a destructive menace with nothing to offer.
Bit like Hide’s view of Douglas (minus the liar bit) post the coup (or even before)
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