I have been keen on politics as long as I can remember and I can not recall a more boring or pathetic election.
I mean – it’s just bizarre when the most exciting question of the week – just days from polling day – is whether Rodney Hide should be displaying an authorisation on his yellow jacket or not.
Who cares! The electoral finance act that demands such things is a nonsense and must go.
The TV 3 debate on Monday night was also pathetic. How people watch that John Campbell I just don’t know. After the so called debate, the panel of experts were disappointed that neither Helen Clark nor John Key had addressed the financial crisis that is affecting the world.
Of course they didn’t. They were trying to answer the silly bloody questions put by Campbell. If answers on specific topics were required – why weren’t questions on these topics asked?
I watched Agenda on Sunday morning – the best programme of the week on at the silliest time. Winston Peters was simply an embarrassment apart from the fact that what he was saying was completely untrue.
Winston Peters used to be an entertaining lightweight but he has become so arrogant (God knows what he has got to be arrogant about) that he now lets every politician or aspiring politician down. He has become a caricature of a politician.
Frankly the American election has been far more interesting and more and more New Zealanders have turned off from our boring little soap opera and tuned in to the Presidential race.
New Zealand politics seems to be lacking characters. David Lange – Big Norm - dare I say it Rob Muldoon. Guys like Norman Jones from Invercargill were always fun. Election campaigns in those days were informative and entertaining.
Now candidates are all controlled by the party machine – they all trumpet the party line and the whole process has lost its colour.
The only colour in this year’s election is Rodney Hide’s jacket and even that is under threat.
Frankly – I guess like you – I will be pleased when it’s all over.
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