http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htdvdm7cJnA

o, truly?
How exactly can you get “an honorary doctorate in gyni”?
I’m assuming you are making some silly wee joke,…

and also read as:
Don Brash as minister of SOBs
Time for the next ex-Guv to come through
– Alan Bollard your time is now...
(Dr Haywood…

But then... Weta can bite with powerful mandibles. Tree weta bites are painful but not particularly common. Weta can inflict painful scratches, with the potential of infection, but their defence displays consist of looking large…

What SOEs?

Were-tuataras! This plan has possibilities.

The biosecurity people might be a bit unhappy about that. Best stick to were-taniwha, were-Haast's-eagles, that sort of thing.

I don't know, I'd quite like a few werecrocodiles in parliament to advocate for my opinions(and possibly eat the faces off of opposition MPs.)

Yes, I think they need big billboards up there during the election saying "A vote for ACT is a vote for ACT". Sometimes you need to state the obvious.

At the last election an Act strategic voter was wanting to ensure that National got and Act as a coalition partner was the guarantee.

This time around the Act strategic voter wants a massie shift to the right.

By…

UPDATE: He's been confirmed. Mr Jones, you have some new fans.

If the ex-FF president does win a nomination, then it truly…

But what I'm not getting is how Epsom voters vote Act presumably as a 'strategy' vote or so they say, without actually owning the vote.You're voting Act for gods sake…

Actually the Banks' lived in East St, Newton. JB went to Avondale College because Auckland Grammar rejected his application. John Banks has a habit of giving out copies of his biography (which is how it appeared on my bookshelves) – I…

Richard Worth was in Parliament for ~10 years. Rodney's been there ~14 years. It's more, but the difference ain't great.

At the 2008 general election in Epsom:

* Among Labour Party party voters, Rodney Hide was more popular than Richard Worth.

* More Maori Party party voters favoured Rodney…

it's pretty farcical when most national supporters are voting Act while green and labour supporters vote national, and yet MMP is still a billion* times better than FPP

*approximate figure

If Richard Simpson were to get the nod, more so.

if you’ll please explain that to our ACT party representatives.

they will be visiting your premises some time this evening. please ignore the small black bag, it is not for your head,…

Well, if they make the wrong choice those silly simple-minded voters get to make their own call in the time-honoured fashion — in Epsom as everywhere else.

Hide wasn't exactly a liberal candidate either. He was a populist, which runs counter to the idea that Epsom is indeed "liberal". It's demographically all over the place-old money, new money, middle class recent…

I live in the electorate, which includes the liberal enclave of Parnell. We can't seem to outvote the blue rinse set just down the road. However, please note I quite sometime ago declared my home to be a seperate republic, distinct from Epsom…

Is it true some…

Stephen Franks did not seek a nomination (for any party, so far as I know) this election. National has chosen diplomat Paul Foster-Bell as its…

Oh hell yes. And he continued to publicly question Field's ethical fitness.

Son of sly-grogging backroom-abortionists,

Avondale was quite teh place back in the day.

One could also query the (I assume not to be repeated) selection of Stephen Franks to tilt at the winnable, liberal seat of Wellington Central.

Pretty much exactly how David Lange warned it would, sadly.

Slightly. :)

Most certainly a worthy successor to Christine Fletcher. But does he have the backing of the wider party though?

"Sure he's a crazy racist and not terribly smart besides, but at least he doesn't want to raise taxes!"

I'd question whether any power dependent on the slow-motion mass-suicide that is the ACT Party is worth having.

Sure but this truth hasn't stopped Epsom voters before. The Crazy gang just seems to roll on , let's hope not for too long.

or an aspie
(too soon?)

I'd question whether any power dependent on the slow-motion mass-suicide that is the ACT Party is worth having.

I suspect we could run up a thoroughly non-partisan “dudes and dudettes, WTF were you thinking?” list of candidates and MPs who were hardly glittering jewels in the crown of parliamentary democracy. (I…

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surely you mean "colourful"?

not in a "maori way" of course

So John Banks is Batman now? Well, he certainly comes across as someone written by Frank Miller...

I'm amazed at the low hurdle of notability needed for an NZ politician to get a published biography. I do wonder whether our paying almost double the overseas price for books is helping to subsidise this...

Also, the credibility of National's Epsom candidate will be…

Agreed. My impression is that all the candidates very much want to win the nomination, and are battling hard to do so.

If they win Epsom it will mean they will lose a coalition partner and possibly power. Oh Epsom, what a clusterfuck you are.

Yes.

Agreed. My impression is that all the candidates very much want to win the nomination, and are battling hard to do so.

a prerequisite of vanity publishing

it's those 4.20am starts. A hemisphere out of touch, but hey.

L

when did he become that interesting?

Having been involved in more National Party candidate selections than you, Rich, I suspect you should leave the fantasy fiction to people who are good at it.

I'm surprised Slater isn't running.