BLOG: Voters decide ‘deals’, not politicians
UnitedFuture has just held its annual conference here in the Ohariu electorate as we prepare ourselves for the coming election both nationally and locally.
Our guest speaker was Prime Minister John Key. People have a sense of him as a straight-up Kiwi bloke who you can back and trust. I have to say that is exactly my experience from three years of working very positively with him.
Pundits and self-appointed experts everywhere read symbolism and intent into all these things – including him coming to our conference – and that is fine.
My political opponents on the left here in Ohariu have feigned great indignation at 'deals' being done and the likes, all the while between them saying 'don't vote for me, vote for the other guy'. Apparently months of such instructions do not amount to a deal by their cute definitions!
I find that a little confounding, but they are right about one thing. Ohariu is a bellwether electorate for whether voters want a centre government or a left-wing government... Read the full text of this blog post.
