Colin Espiner really should be more careful about what he writes on his blog. Though I must admit I love the irony of him having to eat his words; last election he shot his mouth off too. Good on him for following through. He is talking about writing a book of recipes if enough people [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Elections'
Colin Espiner Eats his Words (Again)
November 18th, 2008 2 Comments
Tags: Colin Espiner · Elections · Humour
The New Lineup
November 17th, 2008 1 Comment
The new Cabinet has been announced: John KeyPrime MinisterMinister of TourismMinisterial ServicesMinister in Charge of the NZ Security Intelligence ServiceMinister Responsible for the GCSB Bill EnglishDeputy Prime MinisterMinister of FinanceMinister for Infrastructure Gerry BrownleeLeader of the HouseMinister for Economic DevelopmentMinister of Energy and ResourcesAssociate Minister for the Rugby World Cup Simon PowerDeputy Leader of the [...]
Tags: Elections · NZ Government
And United Future’s Baubles Are…
November 16th, 2008 4 Comments
National and United Future’s confidence and supply agreement is out. Portfolios outside Cabinet:Peter Dunne gets Minister of Revenue and Associate Minister of Health. Policy Concessions Include: Maintain the policy, research and advocacy role of the Families Commission whilst seeking to achieve administrative efficiencies between the operations of the Families Commission and the Office of the [...]
Tags: Elections · National Party · NZ Government · United Future Party
And the Maori Party gets…
November 16th, 2008 No Comments
National and the Maori Party’s confidence and supply agreement is out. Two Maori Party MP’s get portfolios outside Cabinet:Dr Sharples gets Maori Affairs Minister, Associate Education Minister and Associate Corrections Minister.Tariana Turia gets Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector, Associate Health Minister and Associate Social Development Minister. Policy Concessions Include: National offered a review [...]
Tags: Elections · Maori Party · National Party · NZ Government
The Deal is Signed: New Zealand Has a New Government
November 16th, 2008 4 Comments
The hoardings have barely had time to gather dust and National have just announced they have stitched up a deal with ACT, United Future and the Maori Party. Surely this is the fastest confidence and supply stitch up in the history of NZ MMP. National and ACT’s confidence and supply agreement is available here online. [...]
Tags: Elections
Just How Far Will the Left go?
November 11th, 2008 1 Comment
We all know the left will stop at nothing to win in politics; see what they did to Stephen Franks in Wellington Central – systematic election hoarding defacement, abuse on his blog (too numerous to link to any one example), You Tube videos twisting out of context comments into scary hate filled messages against Christians [...]
Tags: Elections · Liberty Scott · Statist Mindset
The Impact of the Special Votes
November 9th, 2008 4 Comments
I sat down to work out how the special votes, which are yet to be counted, might impact the seats with the St Lague formula and saw David Farrar had already done it so I am going to be lazy and steal his post – I am tired, went to bed around 2am got up [...]
Our Election Gathering
November 9th, 2008 1 Comment
So many people emailed me blue food suggestions and left comments that I feel compelled to give a review of our election gathering last night. Despite efforts to be inclusive, my sister and brother-in-law preferring to manipulate visually impaired voters into voting Green instead (they had to take Rich’s mum to vote and teased me [...]
Tags: Elections
The Voting is Over
November 8th, 2008 4 Comments
Curiablog‘s final results: National 59 (46.8%)Labour 44 (34.6%)Green 10 (8.1%)ACT 3 (2.6%)Maori 4 (2.4%)United Future 1 (0.5%)Progressive 1 (0.2%) There will be an overhang so the magic number to chase is a majority of 122 seats. Most likely formulae are: National+ACT+United Future = 63 seatsLabour+Prog+Greens = 55 seats Other possibilities could happen. The next days [...]
Tags: Elections · John Key · National Party · NZ Government
The Special Votes Give a Seat to the Greens
November 22nd, 2008 1 Comment
The Special Votes have been counted, the official result of the New Zealand 2008 Election is in; see the effect they have made on the provisional results: Final results in bold, (provisional results in brackets) National 44.93% (45.45%) – 58 (59) seatsLabour 33.99% (33.77%) – 43 seatsGreen 6.72% (6.43%) – 9 (8) seatsACT 3.65% (3.72%) [...]
Tags: Elections · Green Party