POLITICAL POLL: Peter's gone in Tauranga

A major blow to Winston Peters in a snap poll in the Tauranga Electorate, and significantly Labour because Peters and his NZ First Party supports Helen Clark and her Labour Party. She will need him if the coming election is a close one.

Peters polling would have been seriously dented by the corrupt donation processes that have been enveloping him over the last 3 weeks.

More bad news for Labour and NZ First when they least need it. Labour is suffering under the veil of crumbing government departments and infrastructure, overspending scandals, rorts at the ACC and the bugging of the National Party conference two Friday's ago.

Aug 10, 2008 6:51 PM

A ONE News Colmar Brunton snap poll shows Winston Peters getting a hiding from a national party newcomer in his old stomping ground of Tauranga.

He is nearly half the age of his rival Peters but according to a new poll he has nearly twice the support.

The snap poll taken this week shows that National's Simon Bridges is on 48%, Peters well behind on 28% and Labour's Anne Pankhurst is in third place on 15%.

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KiwiRail's first main trunk service begins

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KiwiRail's first Wellington to Auckland train service begins. The three day trip will be accompanied by sausage rolls, cold Bell tea, 2 day old club sandwiches and frequent stops to take on board more coal.

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Not that there is anything wrong with it

This video is from the 2007 "Big Gay Out". In it Ms Clark espouses, gay,lesbian and "trans gender rights" and waxes lyrical about Civil Unions and the right of these kind of people to have their relationships "recognised by the State".

In itself there is nothing wrong at all with this or as Seinfeld would say "not that there is anything wrong with that".

Having said that there is no media available; audio, video or written transcript of Ms Clark espousing the rights of the Nuclear family; Husband, wife, house and kids, you know, those families who pay the bulk of the taxes that support the nations wheels of commerce, Government expenditure and all the various social(list) programs that Ms Clark and her merry bunch like to roll out under the banner of "diversity".

There is reference to Labour's "rainbow caucus" wing and Labour's Gay movement in the party having an impact on legislation. I have never seen Ms Clark so excited about a sector of the community before, her openly gay members; Tim Barnett, Chris Carter, Maryan Street and Charles Chavel and others not outed yet in the Labour Party are used as examples of eminently upstanding individuals in a "strong rainbow group".

My point is Ms Clark has never been so excited about mum, dad and the nuclear family-where she gets mostly of the taxes from-and in fact seems to take every opportunity to attack those families.

From the anti smacking laws, to Working for families welfare, where working families are spending less time together because they have to spend more time at work funding WFF and other anti family social(list) meddling, there is little enthusiasm for the goose that lays the golden egg.

What New Zealand needs, rather than Ms Clark's main focus on extreme minorities (not that there is anything wrong with it) is a focus and emphasis back on the family and therefore extricating ourselves from the ever decreasing moral cesspool that we have found ourselves swimming in.


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Deep Throat 2: The devil in the detail

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