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2017 Election

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« Reply #50 on: September 30, 2017, 04:27:59 pm »

....looks like he wants to go left🙄


Duncan Garner: The megalomaniac reigns all over National's parade

It's 1996 all over again as Winston Peters and his party decide who will govern.


OPINION: In a country that prides itself on fairness, how can one man, Winston Peters, with just 7 per cent of all votes, have 100 per cent of the power?

Easy – it's called masterful manipulation of the MMP world. See; megalomaniac for further descriptions.

If you think you were sold a cute pup, it's now fully grown into a grumpy, tough old dog that just won't get the hint, or be taught new tricks.

Winston Peters had purposely toyed publicly with the idea of job-sharing the PM role two months ago.
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Winston Peters had purposely toyed publicly with the idea of job-sharing the PM role two months ago.

Used sensibly, a small-time, ego-free politician with a few MPs will act responsibility under MMP. And quickly. And with common sense. And the country will come first. New Zealand first before anyone or anything else.

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But not Winston's New Zealand First.

Within hours of storming home with a bone-crushing 7 per cent, Peters was scrapping with the media, settling scores, threatening to throw some hacks in the drink or to never drink with them ever again.

Laughs, teeth, wrinkles, abuse, muddled thoughts, Dad jokes and the ritual public humiliation of some poor unsuspecting soul. It was undignified and unseemly.

The media didn't do itself any favours either. Trying to second guess Peters and his next move is a fool's paradise.

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Don't bother, go on holiday. Wait to be told. He wants the attention, don't empower him.

He's known as the ringmaster at times like this: in charge of the tired and exhausted nationwide circus with its empty seats, same old tricks, shabby backroom processes and policies not thought through or costed.

Yes, Peters is in his element, with a bunch of suited gimps, known also as his mindless disciples, running after him nodding furiously like the yes men and women they truly are.

Peters loves the circus. It's his chance to play to the crowd. And he owns the space while the usual landlords, National and Labour, stand aside, waiting to hear if they've won Big Wednesday and how big and embarrassing is the public down-trou.

At 93 per cent, Kiwis overwhelmingly rejected Peters last Saturday. Not that you'd know that.

Peters' small little rabble returned, but they know even less about the party's policies than Winston himself, who was buried alive with his own shovel by my mate Guyon Espiner on RNZ during the campaign.

Espiner expertly exposed Peters and NZ First for the shallow policy plonkers they really are.

Peters had purposely toyed publicly with the idea of job-sharing the PM's role two months ago – but he wasn't counting on Jacinda Ardern's near monopoly on popularity in the early part of the campaign.

Yet last weekend most of the country told the travelling door-to-door salesman they still didn't want him.

Except this time, the 7 per cent who did say yes to Peters gave him the absolute power to decide what our democracy this time failed to do: to choose a party and prime minister for a three-year contract with us, the voters.

We gave Peters all the power. If that's democracy can I have my vote and country back? Please.

Peters' place and position in all this will ultimately decide whether Bill English wins his first election as prime minister or whether Ardern gets the shock of her life as she's crowned the accidental prime minister.

It's anyone's prize. National's victory parade could still turn sour.

But right now it's all deja vu, which has turned into Peters and his daily verbal spew. It's been a week of rock 'n' roll, insults and threats. No-one is any the wiser.

The clocks went forward an hour last Sunday, but collectively we've gone back 21 years to 1996.

Peters is squeezing every last bit of patience out of New Zealand voters. And we have only ourselves to blame. MMP was always going to have the annoying, yappy little chihuahua biting the face of the rottweiler.

One man with 160,000 votes now dictates terms and holds to ransom the two political beasts with 1.8 million votes between them.

Last weekend New Zealand spoke – yet only one man knows what was said and even he's seriously struggling between a rock and a genuinely hard place with this decision.

Winston's career is on the line, too.

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