Phil Goff is a sad, deluded little man desperate for relevance.
He put out a press release declaring victory in Botany and appeared on TVNZ saying the right wing was slaughtered in Botany. Sad, sad, sad.
His press release claims there was a significant swing to labour without explaining where the swing came from. We know from the number that it wasn’t from National, nor was it from Act.
He makes these claims on the basis that Act’s vote dropped. He ignores the fact that the New Citizens party got over 10%. If he had even a cursory look at the policies of the New Citizens Party he would find that in many ways they are more right wing than Act.
But that doesn’t suit his meme or the meme of the paid lap-bloggers at The Standard.
The other thing Phil Goff neglects to look at was the complete absence of any Green votes, because their candidate got caught in traffic and missed the deadline to register. The claimed swing to Labour is in fact the soaking up of Green voters and therefore isn’t a swing at all, more like a swing and a miss.
However if Phil Goff and Labour want to remain delusional in the face of National’s vote holding up in a by-election where history has shown government’s get punished, then so be it, let them remain delusional, and sad. And let them carry that through to the election and we will be entertained by watching Phil Goff explain that the left won when he is still the opposition leader for another term, or until Maryan Street cuts his hamstrings and leaves him bleeding in the gutter.
