by frog
A couple of weeks back I was first to reveal the stoush over which side of the House NZ First should sit on.
The Herald reports today that NZ First will, at least initially, sit where the Clerk of the House has put them. Deputy Leader Peter Brown says his caucus “knew how to eat a bit of humble pie”.
Brown and Peters’ remarkable misjudgement in trying to sit opposite the Government they are supporting may well have contibuted to their plunge in last night’s TV3 poll. In case you missed it, NZ First dropped to 3.5% from 5.7% on election night, while the Greens seem to have got some credit for losing out with dignity on the Cabinet game, increasing from 5.3% to 7%.
The House returns next week, with the first Question Time on Thursday.
Published in Parliament by frog on Fri, November 4th, 2005
Tags: environment
on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
Now that Rayna’s gone, guys, who can I come up and gatecrash to watch question time with?? And will it even be interesting without Nandor’s great speeches???
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The NZF decline is indicative of a loss of pro National coalition voters, also possibly some fallout over WP having a Ministerial position.
United lost support over supporting Labour in 2002, as Winston did in going with National in 1996. This is the nature of centre parties attracting supporters favouring both National and Labour in any coalition.
The Green gain indicates – both a return of election day voters who helped Labour ahead of National (and thus committed NZF to Labour) and also some support from the Labour left unhappy there is no Labour Green MP coalition. The latter suggests that old Alliance MP’s like Harre and Jackson have things to ponder.
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Can’t find a better place to make this comment at the moment. I am saddened by Rod’s death and feel kind of bad in a superstitious way about this, but I voted Green for the first time in my life for Nandor. I will be disappointed if he doesn’t return. It is a very hard choice, but it will be for anyone else too. I think Rod would want it too.
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