The dopy moronic idiots who want to be Mayor of the biggest metropolitan area of the country have decided the election already, simply because they can not understand basic arithmetic.
The NZLP have endorsed their candidate Efeso Collins, while a growing list of wannabees move to carve up the votes of all who would like to see Labour prevented from inheriting the lease of the Mayoral Chains.
So the Titanic continues towards the Iceberg following Len Brown and then Phil Goff who ran up the debts and continue their construction of the most unliveable, unlovable and unmanageable city in the Nation.
First it was a restaurateur Leo Malloy, then Viv Beck CEO of “Heart of the City”, Craig Lord who did is chips three years ago and Ted Johnston (New Conservative, Jake “Who” Law, and two days ago a past Mayor of “The Far North Wayne Brown.
Now this is no assessment of the capabilities it is a commentary on the absolute stupidity of Six candidates trying to garner a winning majority over a swede wearing red rosette bearing the name of the one having the Labour Party endorsement and the undoubted backing of the remnant Union rump.
Say Collins gets 30% that leaves 70% for so far six scrabbling over, that will result in an average on offer of less than 12% or should one of “the any one but Labour” reach close to Collins the maths get even more unlikely.
If that is the level of understanding of Maths then none of the above becomes the only rational response.
No Minister 
Wayne Brown … voted out off office in Northland and now trying to carpet bag himself into the Auckland mayoriity. Sez much for a thick skin and the inability to read the tea leaves. Mind you and perhaps, just perhaps, as an avowed supporter of the last Labour/NZF government his running interference of the centre/right candidate is to be expected.
Veteran so hard to understand these people. Not a brain amongst them.
Wayne Brown??? what a joke and on balance probably is a plant.
Leo Molloy??? supported everything Labour did up until the point it effected his own pocket. Don’t know the rest but obviously no mental giant amongst them.
I would have pity for Auckland except they keep voting for these Labour clowns.
It was beneath National to fight Labour on the local election level.
The ramification of this stupid decision is still with us to day.
The only hope is that a new, more credible centre right candidate joins the fray. I’d give that a 10% chance of happening.
Given that we have two senior representatives of National here at No Minister – The Vet and Wayne Mapp – I’d like to know what the reason is for National’s refusal to get into Local Body elections and whether that’s going to change?
I can see why it might have made sense decades ago when Local Government meant little more than looking after water, waste treatment, streets and parks. But following the passage of the Local Government Act in 2002, which vastly broadened the scope of such government, and with the creation of the Auckland Super City, which has such a massive impact on New Zealand, I think National’s reluctance is very wrong.
There is shit constantly being pulled by Left-wing dingbats at the local government level, including when National are in government. In fact I always reckoned that the fundamental purpose of the 2002 LGA was to enable Left-wing ideas to be implemented around NZ even when Labour was not in government.
Tom … I am not a senior representative of the National Party. I hold no elected position. National has always declined to enter into local body politics under the Party banner. The argument is that to do so and you could alienate those non labour voters who would may feel uncomfortable voting National. Instead it prefers the C&R type solution as a catch-all umbrella alternative to Labour. Only problem with that is that personal egos get in the way with individuals unable/unwilling understand reality and read the tea leaves … hence the Wayne Browns of this world reckon that four candidates from the right of the political spectrum can somehow muddle thru with one of them rising to the top, phoenix like, to defeat a single candidate from the left. Sad.
And if you are talking about the ‘power of general competence’ then you are right on the money.