Winston Peters looks to be lining up to take on Prime Minister John Key for the Helensville seat at next year's election.
Mr Peters was on the campaign trail today after his 2008 election loss, speaking to about 70 students at the Wellington's Victoria University, urging them to consider signing up as New Zealand First members.
He said he was settled in Auckland and re-affirmed he wouldn't stand for next year's election in his old Tauranga seat, but despite not having come to a party decision on contesting seats, he didn't deny Helensville was a possibility.
The electorate, which Prime Minister John Key has a strong hold on, was an "interesting proposition" and campaigning there would force Mr Key to "turn up and have a debate", he said.
TV3 reported tonight that it had sources confirming Mr Peters was genuinely gearing up to contest the seat.
John Key will be defending a majority of around 20,000, and it's hard to see Winston getting traction, especially when the billboards start going up. You know the ones:
Pay it back Winston!
Yes indeed dear readers. There are STILL 158,000 reasons NOT to vote for Winston Peters and New Zealand First, and the interest which has accrued on those 158,000 reasons since 2005 grows by the day. Winston Peters must never be allowed to live the high life again, funded by those to whom he is still in debt.
14 comments:
Winston will get nasty, Key will get nasty..
Hey look everybody, Key's gotten nasty!
(Winston's Plan.)
Nasty!
John Key is far too smart to get nasty with Peters. He will slay him as INV2 says - the problem is the party vote the publicity might generate.
Pay back the #158,000 Winson!!!
Weee shall seee!
Winston's not going to stand in Helensville, he's just floating the idea as a (successful) stunt to get some publicity now.
I wouldn't put it past him to run in Epsom though...
Winston Peters must never be allowed to live the high life again, funded by those to whom he is still in debt.
Brilliant - almost Churchillian!
David
Simon Bridges beat Peters by 10,000 votes without getting nasty. That was in a seat Peters had held for decades.
Key in contrast, already has a 20,000 vote majority, and Peters has no connection to the seat.
Robert's wishful thinking is getting the better of him again.
bobux, We know he won't win the seat but think of the publicity for the all important party vote as he takes the fight to forefront in the highest profile seat in the land.
You seem to have changed your tune PM:
http://pmofnz.blogspot.com/2008/10/consulgate-worries-for-pm.html
"As for the lying Winston I can only hope this crook is Parliamentary history."
Or have the worst excesses of Winston Peters with the pasaage of time?
Whoops - should read "FADED with the passage of time"
Well spotted, IV2. Did I really say that? You have been dredging in my sewer.
However, Winnie is still a crook, but at present, a better looking crook than the pinkos that infest our government on both sides of the house.
If it is OK for Neville Key, Dear Leader, to flip-flop with each day that passes, I could be excused for swaying whichever way the breeze takes me.
A vote for Winnie would be purely out of spite, to ram the message home to both sides that my vote is not to trifled with.
Archives are a bitch PM!! I see where you're coming from; all I will say is be careful what you wish (and/or vote) for.
Winston is the only politician to be upfront about what a politician is actually like. Scheming, witty, ego driven, an ideas person, evasive, power hungry. And for that reason he'll get my vote.
Should the unthinkable happen and WRP, unemployed of St Mary's Bay, gather a coterie of rubbish for a party list. It would be nice if the media would apply a magnifying glass to the rest of the list as I have been personally acquainted to some who have actually made it to the parliament on his list and every one of them was walking proof that no one should give them oxygen let alone a list vote. My hope will be in vain I know.
Every intelligent voter will have a concept of the suitability of the leader to be there but the tragedy that someone could vote on the basis of a high profile list candidate, a vote that tips 4.9999 to 5% thereby giving the odious dwarf another tilt at stealing the future from the citizens is a thought to terrible to even contemplate.
Have a wet dream RG, in my saner moments my faith still sustains me that the NZ body politic will see sense and his share will be wasted as it should be. Anyone supporting that oxygen thief (let alone the $158 000) should have their vote confiscated as they have proved they are incompetent to use it wisely.
PM
WE all know Peters won't win Helensville. Or Hillbillyville, for that matter.
My point is that Key has no need to get nasty with him, as Robert seems to fondly hope.
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