- people don’t vote on party lines at local level
- most people don’t even vote at local level
- by definition local issues are more about society and people are more attracted to social(ist) solutions
- (it is widely perceived that) Len might be a face-slapping loon, but (it is widely perceived that) John Banks is a cnut (90s radio show anyone?)
- the average thoughtful Wellingtonian isn’t a greenie, just isn’t; they’ve just had enough of Kerry
- and so on…

John R: arrogant idiot who was going to take money from arts and libraries and put it into a car festival. Moronic.

Horse manure: semi literate prat.

I voted Harry (god, do I have to say that?) simply because he was the least bad option AND because a vote for anyone else was a vote for an idiot like John R or Horse Manure. Harry will be a safe unimaginative pair of hands after years of the brilliance of Mayor Pete. He will look like what he is – a pale shadow of what a good mayor should be – bounding energy in promoting the city and bringing about local change that isnt policy focussed.

And if the left see this as a victory for ‘their way’, they are delusional.

Maybe they are

Thank you for the smile. So sadly true.

One thing that is true is that the ex-Labour MP and ex-Hutt Mayor John Terris, and one of the nastiest pieces of work you would ever have the misfortune to have to deal with, has been heaved from the Hutt Mana Charitable Trust and failed to get on the Regional Council. He did make it to the DHB. You didn’t see Trevor blogging and bragging about that, even though it was true (which is perhaps why it did not make his blog).

One of Wellington’s best analysts David Choat got elected to the DHB

By “best analyst” you mean his name starts with the letter “C”.

So those dumbarses who voted for him in the North and East and part of the Central city will wonder why their rates will increase at least at double the rate of inflation over the next 3 years.

Cause Lenny wants to have lots of money to buy a choo choo set. Like BILLIONS of $ and you idiots have given him the mandate to do so.

So dont start whining when you next rate bill arrives because lastmanstanding told you what would happen BEFORE the election.

This won’t happen because the majority of this country, thankfully, would never back true right wing ideals. Face it, NZ has a left-centrist population and will do so for the foreseeable future. The best hope you have for a true right-wing government is to try and engineer low voter turn outs.

Just like philip field – pretending it didnt happen.

He is a gutless worm.

Has anyone looked at the stats to find indicators as to where the ‘non-turnout’ vote may have laid? Was it likely to be more right favoured or more left? There was a great deal of commentary as to how Brown & his team moblised the South Auckland vote (even without Singh’s help.) Was this loss – 60,000 votes – as simple as Banks & team failing to mobilse more voters (as voters who didn’t voter were right voters)? [perhaps coupled with the 3rd place getter, who would certianly have grabbed more votes off banks than Brown.]

For clarification on that question – If the ‘non-voters’ were principally left then Banks mobilising voters generally would not have helped, whereas if they were mostly right-leaning, then simply mobilising a greater turnout of any voters would have helped him

Looking at your site you could push all the right wing hot buttons: global warming, taxation, education, immigration, gay marriage and education. Time to stop being an armchair expert – throwing clods of earth at the players from the sideline.

He probably put it on his council card.

Is Thompson a Labour Party activist? He ran on the Greater Dunedin ticket. Is it time for openness and honesty in local politics too? Is this why 50 % can’t be bothered,we don’t really know who we are getting?