WE ARE GOING ON A BLOG HOLIDAY - AND WE WILL BE GONE FOR SOMETIME

We have blogoholism. It is very similar to being under the spell of the piss fairy. So we are going to go away dig gardens, eat whitebait, catch and smoke eels and receive some intensive counselling. We will drink good wine, like a nice bottle of Winston Churchill and another of Hill of Grace we have been saving to celebrate the ebbing of the red tide and the dismissal of Winston and of course, the Maori Party being offered political partnership. We are also writing a book - but its not about scampi but about spies and fish and stuff.
We would like to thank you all for your support - and we had heaps of it. Just on 3000 of you tuned in one day and by the end of the day we will have clocked over 65,000 visitors since we started late in August.
Maybe in time, we will do another blog thats just about food and wine - but not for a while.
We remain and will always be true Blue. We think we got just the Right mix in the end so to speak. Because we also support the Maori Party. And we think John Key is going to be a very very good Prime Minister. So thanks to all the grumpy buggers on the Left who gave us lots of information for us to share with everyone. And double thanks to the journos who helped us and whom we helped a bit in return.

If you need to contact us BB will take care of all correspondence so email her on bustedblonde@gmail.com

So from
Bustedblonde
The Brunette
3 Maori prawns
Designing prawn
hairy oyster
the sweeper
steamy boy
whetu chini
diplomatic prawn
dining prawn
the strapper
Wanaka fisherman
and of course Spaz,
Arohanui and

See You On the Tide

NEW RULE TO ENSURE WE NEVER GET ANOTHER WINSTON PETERS IN PARLIAMENT

We became very alarmed when the early results came in on election night and NZ First was hovering around the 5%. Then some knowledgeable person suggested it was because of the special votes cast in rest homes.

So we would like a new rule. After you turn 75 you can't vote without written permission from your children. And we expect all children of parents over 75 to exercise some guidance over voting.

WE WISH WE WERE PRIME MINISTER

We fly a lot - BB's, son flys helicopters, There is a flying vet in the family as well, but today we were very very jealous of John Key. The lucky bugger got to ride in the Jump seat of a 737 from Auckland to Wellington. Journos up the front of the bus ( and BB ) were hoping the new PM may end up sitting in one of many empty seats but no - he ended up in the front, front seat with the pilots. We have long harboured a secret desire to fly with the fly boys.

He looked good, fresh and alert. We hope he picks a good fresh alert cabinet as well.

RAHUI KATENE

This is the woman who beat Mahara Okeroa for Te Tai Tonga - she will be one to watch. Her whakapapa is a good strong one and she is a doer not just a talker. That the Maori party has chosen someone who likes mahi will be good for Te Tai Tonga - they have been severely underrepresented by Okaroa for an long time.

WHO WILL REPLACE HELEN?

Our money is on Goff, and King.
Cunliffe is very unpopular in his own caucus - he's known as the teachers pet. That means that he is too close to Helen. So he aint gonna get the support he needs.

A NEW NEW ZEALAND

While nothing can every match the day the US voted for its first black president, yesterday will mark a turning point in our political history as well.
MMP makes major parties inclusionary by necessity. Clark saddled up and rode into town with a rag tag posse because she had to.

Last night Key signalled he would be more inclusionary, because he wants to. He understands that the Maori party will be the best party to help solve some of the issues Maori faces that impede their economic and social growth.
While we now have the measure of Key, after he talked strongly of inclusionary politics because it was good for the country, his own MP's will have to show grace as some will miss out to make way for the seats at the top table which will be shared with other parties.

Key has the chance to create a government now that shapes the future. It will need a mix of wise old heads and new blood.
In the coming days Key has some critical choices to make. He is known for making bloodless decisions during his years as a money trader. To get to where we need to go and create a country that is good and great he will need to make some pragmatic decisions about the future of some of the party's long standing MP's.
It will be the measure of not Key, but the party that these changes be made swiftly and without a murmur. The greatest lessons National can learn from Labour are loyalty and unity. So the whimpering and self interest of the past, that marked changes to personal status, must go.
Any National MP, who does not understand that the politics of inclusion will make the party stronger do not merit any position of note.
We look forward to a line up that shows , that National will give all New Zealanders a shared future based on aspiration, personal responsibility, and sound economic stewardship.

PAUL EAST CALLS FOR NATIONAL TO WORK WITH MAORI

Great stuff - we will be getting a lovely bottle of Hill of Grace if National and Maori work together. We reckoned all along Maori will be with National.

And No more corrupt politicians in parliament Winston is stuffed and has conceded- And if there is ever another sniff of corruption by any MP we will hunt them and roger them until they are gone too.

To the scampi rebels - Well done. We expect there are still a few more stories to tell and we will be happy to help telling them.

Damien O'Connor is gone - and he is so low on the list he may be out altogether.
Mark Burton has lost his seat to Louise Upston
Darren Hughes has lost to Nathan Guy
Mahara Okeroa is also looking stuffed - ye ha -Its about time that Te Tai Tonga had a decent MP.

And the Greens still scare the shit out of people - they didn't make double figs as some predicted.

And to the VWRC - see you tomorrow...

MAORI PARTY SHOULD BE PART OF NATIONAL LED GOVT - RODNEY HIDE

Rodney is clear - Maori should be part of the National Government..

Very good news - it was time for a change and there will be change and Maori are ready to part part of an aspirational government.

Good stuff.

WE PREDICTED IT

Auckland Central has fallen to Nikki Kaye.

Excellent work! ...

And Paula Bennett is looking to take Waitakere from Lyn Pillay.

More Excellent work!

Going Blue

Its all looking good National and Act and Winnie is toast.

Phew .

VOTE FOR CHANGE

THE NEW FACES OF NATIONAL

Nikki Kaye left and Amy Adams are women who will make a difference in the future. The fact that they are attractive, intelligent, articulate and bloody good sheilas, will add some light to the dark halls of power in the Beehive.

Nikki is standing in Auckland Central and Amy in Selwyn.
Go you good things!

ALL POLLS POINT TO A NATIONAL GOVERNMENT

All the polls are telling a similar story - the country is voting for a change and National. we will leave it to the gurus of polling Kiwiblog to analyse the polls.
Yee Ha!

CORRUPTION COMES WITH MANY FACES

The Greens are moving quickly to distance themselves from the Taper ( whom we are convinced has illegally taped conversations). they called for a clean up of parliament and hate spying and have called for an inquiry into corruption - we could not agree more and this incident should be part of it. Kees Keizer has a tape we believe will have on it recordings of conversations between other people who did not realise they were being taped, and as every journalist knows - thats illegal. You can tape a conversation between two people as long as one person is aware of being taped. You cannot tape conversations of two or more people without their knowledge.

Update whaleoil has the legal oil

Then there is the Crimes Act, Part 9A, Crimes against Personal Privacy.

Kees Keizer should be really very worried about these provisions of the Crimes Act. Section 216B allows Kees to record the conversation as he was a party to it. Where he runs into problems though is Section 216C.

BOTH TV POLLS HAVE THE COUNTRY GOING BLUE - TIME FOR CHANGE!

Details later, but its pretty clear that NZ wants change. New Zealanders are voting for aspirational politics - not the politics of envy. And with a bit of luck the political creep Peters will be out on his corrupt butt.
Good.

KEIZER - HAS SOME INTERESTING LINKS

Kiwiblog has the low down on the lowdown Labour creep Kees Keizer. We still want to see the tapes - We would put a bottle of something bubbly on it, that he has illegally recorded conversations.

LABOUR SPOOK OUTED -AUTHORITIES SHOULD GET TAPE.

Finally the bugger who taped conversations at the Nats conference has been outed. Well done Farrar and WhaleOil and the Herald.
More investigation is needed into this venal jerks background. Sadly, we note he was brought up in Invercargill. We know that it is legal to tape a conversation as long as one party knows its happening - what is illegal is if you tape the conversation between two other people without them knowing. We reckon thats why Keizer wont release the tape - it will have evidence that he taped conversations between National Party people without them knowing.
And thats a serious offence.

HICKEY ON THE MONEY - WELLINGTON BLOATED

Bernard Hickey takes a l0ok at the economic Jabba that Wellington has become. We see it every day but there is a subtle change - we lunch a lot. And even my good and affluent mates are shunning the Docksides, Shed Five type restaurants in favour of " cheap and cheerfuls" and there are more people travelling on the buses. But Hickey is right. I have govt work and the offices and the waste are unfuckingbelievable. I have private sector clients and they are a world apart. Next week we will write a series of posts on the waste we have seen in the public sector. We are quietly confident that Key will give the public sector a shake up.

MOOD OF CAUTIOUS OPTIMISIM

The tide of change that has swept though America appears to have set off a similar wave here. Media today are speculating that this Saturday will signal a change in NZ politics. . John Armstrong talks of Labour needing an miracle. We agree.

WINSTON GIVING UP?

Winston appears to be giving up according to Radio NZ

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters appears to be cutting his losses in the battle for the Tauranga seat.

Despite planning to spend the rest of his campaign in the city, he has suddenly flown to Wellington to join his MP, Ron Mark, who is campaigning for the Rimutaka seat.

Radio New Zealand's political reporter in Tauranga says no clear reason was given.

Mr Peters was due to spend rest of the week in Tauranga, where he has been fighting to regain the seat he lost in 2005 to Bob Clarkson.

He needs to win it to secure New Zealand First's political survival, unless the party can make it over the 5% threshold in the party vote.