[The Red Arrow]

Interweb watchdogging - Kiwi style...

[The Red Arrow]

[Tubby Isaacs]

He might be wasting his time there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_p ... l_election

[davidjay]

I'm no expert, but I think Jacina Ardern might just piss this one.

[Watchman]

I'm imagining Banks telling a couple of The All Blacks front row to go home

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Does it have the same reputation as the Hammersmith Flyover?

[youngian]

I’m Bank’s mind New Zealand isn’t ‘abroad’ and he’s not really an immigrant and has a colonial entitlement to free movement to the country.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

I meant the flyover's reputation as the last resting place of a number of sadly departed villains.

[Boiler]

I realise that now, and have edited my posts to suit. Actually, I might just delete them, y'know, just in case.

[The Weeping Angel]

Unlike Corbyn Arden knows how to win elections.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-54519628

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has won a landslide victory in the country's general election.

With most ballots tallied, Ms Ardern's centre-left Labour Party has won 49% of the vote and she is projected to win a rare outright parliamentary majority.

The opposition centre-right National Party, currently on 27%, has admitted defeat in Saturday's poll.

The vote was originally due to be in September, but was postponed by a month after a renewed Covid-19 outbreak.

[youngian]

[Samanfur]

I was reading an article the other day that pointed out that as much as she's been exemplary in most ways, she hasn't actually delivered on her major election promises. The author was hoping that if she got an outright majority rather than had to rely on a more right-wing coalition partner, we'd see her more transformative agenda start to come out.

We shall see.

[youngian]

I was reading an article the other day that pointed out that as much as she's been exemplary in most ways, she hasn't actually delivered on her major election promises.

So rewarded for doing stuff a leader is supposed to in a national emergency. We can only dream.

[Samanfur]

Absolutely.

[spoonman]