#GuyonEspiner: "You'd hoped for a majority in 2002. The polls said it was possible."
#HelenClark: "I think with MMP it was probably never realistic. Whatever the polls said... kiwis in the end quite like the government not having it all it's own way, having to talk with others..."
May 2017
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-9th-floor/story/201842639/the-commander-helen-clark
Egg on your face Helen.
So disappointing to hear Helen Clark doubling down on her #ForeshoreAndSeabed position. If it was about people's right to access the sea, how come her govt didn't extinguish exclusive Foreshore and Seabed rights held by Pākeha? I honestly can't think of a polite adjective for the utter horseshit she talks on this subject.
She was on the wrong side of history, as subsequent legislative changes made clear. It's reveals a weakness of her character that she can't see that, even a decade later.
"A formidable leader in her day. [Helen Clark] delivered three terms in Government for the left..."
#MaikiSherman, 2016
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2016/08/opinion-the-case-against-helen-clark.html
If the Clark regime was ever on the left, certainly by the end of it Labour had drifted far to the right of centre;
https://politicalcompass.org/nz2008
So Maiki's claim here is nonsense. Unless you accept the facile argument that whatever policy Labour adopts is, by definition, the policy of "the left".
Otherwise, this was a very good article.
Strypey
