McCully on the election date

Being away for the weekend, and not yet having got around to setting up my work e-mail on my laptop, I didn't see Murray McCully's weekly missive until logging on to my desktop this morning. But I had a chuckle at his opening paragraph, in particular the last sentence!

We Have A Date
So November 8^th it is. Finally, after waiting till the point where earlier options were no longer logistically feasible, Helen Clark has announced a date.

According to Clark, the election will be “all about trust”. Such has been the declaration of virtually every other leader of an unpopular long term government, bereft of any new ideas, and attempting to set the scene for unrelenting attacks on their opponents.

On that score, we cannot give Clark any marks for imagination or new ideas. But one thing we must give her: If Helen Clark is prepared to mention the word “trust”, after Owen Glenn’s revelations about her and her party president this week, she clearly still has a sense of humour.