Labour has 15 list MPs only because it performed so poorly in the electorates.
Labour has paid the price for failing to replace Chris Hipkins.
National’s failure is even more extraordinary.
Christopher Luxon has been an exceptionally unpopular prime minister. A leader with self-knowledge would have recognised the reality and stepped aside.
Nicola Willis, Chris Bishop, Paul Goldsmith and Gerry Brownlee are out of Parliament because they failed to persuade or force a change of leader.
It has been obvious all year that Luxon was leading National to a disastrous result for the party.
Who doubts that if Erica Stanford had been leading National, we would have elected a very different Parliament?
The Honourable Richard Prebble CBE is a former member of the New Zealand Parliament. Initially a member of the Labour Party, he joined the newly formed ACT New Zealand party under Roger Douglas in 1996, becoming its leader from 1996 to 2004. This article was sourced HERE
Nicola Willis, Chris Bishop, Paul Goldsmith and Gerry Brownlee are out of Parliament because they failed to persuade or force a change of leader.
It has been obvious all year that Luxon was leading National to a disastrous result for the party.
Who doubts that if Erica Stanford had been leading National, we would have elected a very different Parliament?
The Honourable Richard Prebble CBE is a former member of the New Zealand Parliament. Initially a member of the Labour Party, he joined the newly formed ACT New Zealand party under Roger Douglas in 1996, becoming its leader from 1996 to 2004. This article was sourced HERE
8 comments:
Who is Erica Stanford?
"Who is Erica Stanford?"
I'm a boomer, and a longtime follower of politics. She is the best minister of education we've had in a very long time. Possibly in my lifetime, though others may disagree.
I'm so pleased that she has been re-elected. Fingers crossed the Natz and allies manage to form a government, and that she continues to hold the education portfolio.
Self knowledge, self awareness, read the room, on all fronts Luxon failed the test. Oblivious and without doubt self assured for no apparent reason.
Easy answer, the Mowbray money polluted the results.
Anon 10:29, if it were not for the Mowbrays, Don Brash and others, the left would have won last night.
The overhang on both sides is worrying but I am very happy with it.
Luxon will go and Erica should take the leadership I suspect the polling would show a massive shift.
Talk about the idiotic National party being unaware but Labour have very little quality to run with and Chris Hipkins is a capable campaigner as we saw.
The "powers" will decide if and when Luxon departs..... as they decided when TOP should appear.
Oh, "polluted the results." How precise. How grown-up.
Let's see if your memory stretches past last Tuesday, Anonymous @10.29.
Electoral Commission figures show Alan Wilderland put $221,160 into Opportunity in 2026. $25,000 on 25 May. $80,000 on 29 June. $75,000 on 30 June. Plus $41,160 via his company, Alajamber. Electoral Commission figures show he was also one of the five who picked Qiulae Wong as leader.
He didn't pollute the results. He selected them. Funny how that bit slipped your mind.
Wilderland was quoted as saying by rnz he “had to play the game to change the game”.
Electoral Commission figures show Phillip Mills gave $50,000 to Opportunity on 8 January 2026. And another $50,000 a few months later. Total $100,000. Funny how that slipped your mind too.
Electoral Commission figures show Brian Cartmell gave $100,000 to Opportunity in 2026. The same Cartmell who, Electoral Commission figures show, gave about $200,000 each to National, ACT and NZ First in 2025. Funny how that slipped your mind as well.
So your definition of "polluted" is: rich man funds right — pollution. (Moral indignation).
Rich man funds your side, picks your leader, bankrolls your darling party — democracy (virtue celebration).
That's not analysis. That's amnesia with attitude.
Mowbray didn't pollute the results. He participated in them. Just like Wilderland. Just like Mills. Just like Cartmell.
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