Posts by Katharine Moody
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Hard News: Where are all the polls at?, in reply to izogi,
I guess there are a million ways to frame the outcome, but to me there are just a heap of people don’t want things to change.
And they very much in the main live in Auckland;
Despite all the talk of unaffordable housing, unchecked immigration and gridlocked roads, their is no mood for change in our biggest city. Or if there is, none of the other parties are doing anything to capture it.
National's party vote held firm or increased in all but a handful of Auckland's electorates.
The main exceptions were Mt Albert (Jacinda Ardern's electorate) and Auckland Central, which saw one of the biggest swings to Labour in the country.
All 10 of the electorates in which support for National increased by more than 2 points were in Auckland.
Many of those were heartland Labour territory in the south and west of the city, where National's overall vote share is still small and Labour's is large, but they also grew their support in blue strongholds like Botany, Pakuranga and Papakura.
I suspect its the size of the mortgages up there - across the political spectrum.
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The other really interesting stats I'll be keen to see are the party donation electoral returns;
I suspect the winner last night were the individual donors across all the opposition parties, many of whom likely donated to more than one opposition party.
They, I suspect won the majority of New Zealand back from the big money end of town.
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Hard News: The Day After Tomorrow, in reply to Trevor Nicholls,
Yes, that's what I've been thinking for awhile now.
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Hard News: The Day After Tomorrow, in reply to dave stewart,
What happened to all that “relentless positivity”?
Still got it here - and this is good news as well;
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2017/09/22/49399/there-may-have-been-a-youth-quake
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Envirologue: Swamp Monsters – the…, in reply to Alfie,
This is going to get very, very interesting.
Just as is this;
https://croakingcassandra.com/2017/09/22/a-story-of-two-attorneys-general/
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Hard News: The Day After Tomorrow, in reply to Martin Brown,
Not surprising, but…
Dunno. Common sense would suggest the 'bar' for a political party would be far higher than it might be for a laundry detergent.
Their decisions should be subjected to Judicial Review. They have set a dangerous precedent.
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She hits the nail on the head for me, Dame Anne Salmond;
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2017/09/20/49103/dame-anne-salmond-a-final-brief-election-thought
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Hard News: The Day After Tomorrow, in reply to Jason Kemp,
What an election - from a personal perspective, it's the election of hope, on a knife edge. If we don't get change, liars win and everyone knows it;
So to me no matter how many folks vote National on the evening, every one of them is voting for post-truth politics;
And that's just plain so not-New Zealand.
We're better than that.
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And not to be missed;
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Envirologue: Swamp Monsters – the…, in reply to Alfie,
Isn’t it funny how dots sometimes mysteriously conspire to join up.
Another dot in the series - confirmation from Lloyds that the digger did it.