Please forgive me in advance, it’s just after midnight and I’m probably at least 15 pints deep by now. I just got back from the pub.
The All Blacks gave New Zealand something to celebrate. So did the resignation of Bussy. Unfortunately, Tamaki Makaurau gave us the exact opposite - a reminder that there are at least 6,031 retards living in that electorate who somehow still get to vote.
Oriini Kaipara is not a serious politician. She is not a leader. She is not even remotely competent. She is, at best, a former newsreader who thinks tribal slogans can be swapped in for policy, and who once literally had to try pull out her phone in the middle of questioning to figure out what Te Pārtly Māori were repelling.
Peeni Henare – for all his faults and for all my dislike and genuine hate of Labour – has experience. He knows how Parliament work and compared to Kaipara, he looks like Churchill. In this clown-show of an electorate, Henare scraped just over 3,000 votes, while Kaipara lapped him with 6,031.
This isn’t just “oh well, people made a different choice.” No, this is people actively voting for incompetence over competence. They chose spectacle over substance, tribal supremacy over practical politics, and delusion over reality.
Kaipara has all the stability of a waka crashing into the rocks. Her political career, if you can even call it that, is destined to be an ongoing grift to the grave. Excuse my language, I’m drunk but 6000+ retards lined up to hand her legitimacy. Why? Probably because those who voted for her probably have some intellectual issues going on.
This is the ugly proof that electorates can be swayed not by logic, not by track record, not by competence, but by blind tribalism and the collective brain-melt of people who should honestly never be trusted with a ballot paper again.
Tamaki Makaurau has embarrassed itself. It has dragged politics to a new low. It has made the rest of New Zealand sit back and ask how the hell did we get to a point where the waka wreck of New Zealand politics can beat someone with experience.
The answer is as simple as it is depressing, because 6,031 retards put her there.
So in a population of about 6million, Kaipara now sits in parliament with only 6,000 of the population voting for her.
Says it all. Electoral system needs reform.