Craig Foss

With Craig Foss becoming a minister and being able to trade in his gay ute perhaps he might like to team up with Peter Goodfellow and pimp their BMW rides. All it needs for Goodfellow is a little flag on the front.

On the surface Labour’s lowest ever result since 1928 is bad but manageable.

However if you look beyond the headline numbers and into the electorates you can see the terrible legacy Phil Goff has gifted the Labour party.

The recent result in Waitakere has only compounded the issue.

In a number of seats Labour have lost their local list MP for good. Take Rotorua, for instance, Todd McClay saw off Steve Chadwick for the second and last time. Labour’s poor showing in the party vote means Steve Chadwick is now handing in her gear and looking for a job. She won’t have an office and neither will labour in Rotorua for three years. In the local press they won;t have to go and seek comment on issues from the local Labour person because they simply don’t exist. For the next three years the only MP commenting on local issues in Rotorua will be Todd McClay.

Napier is the same. Stuart Nash ran a robust campaign and really pushed Chris Tremain. However Tremain prevailed and Labour’s poor party vote now sees Stuart Nash seeking a job as Chief of Staff in Wellington to David Shearer. He won’t be back. Labour loses a spokesperson in the Bay and an office and Chris Tremain will now enjoy unfettered press coverage for three years straight. His majority will bounce back like Craig Foss who enjoyed a similar holiday from a Labour list stalker. Julia Haydon-Carr faced an insurmountable challenge of overcoming the man with the gay ute, Craig Foss, who did not have Julia stalking him for three years like Nash stalked Tremain.

Paula Bennett has now seen off Carmel Sepuloni in Waitakere. Labour loses an office and a list MP who can dog her every move in Waitakere. Labour again through its poor party vote loses exposure, resources and personnel and cedes the argument to National in a key electorate.

In Christchurch Central, Nicky Wagner will likewise enjoy having no Labour list MP dogging her as Brendan Burns at number 29 on Labour’s list was left stranded high and dry. Nicky will now be able to cement her position as National’s voice in Christchurch, an island of blue in a sea of red. Labour loses their office and their voice which will have to be picked up and shared by others. Perhaps Clayton Cosgrove, after his defeat in Waimakiriri might establish a presence, but it will never be a full time one.

Sam Lotu Iiga in Maungakiekie also will enjoy not having Carol Beaumont stalk his every move. He will be hoping that no labour list MPs quit and that David Shearer will tell Beaumont that the face doesn’t fit but until then he too can enjoy an electorate without a Labour office ruining the view.

Losing those resources in key areas makes it very difficult to turn things around in 2014. Labour has less presence, less resources and they must spread thinly to ensure coverage. They don’t realise the significance yet of their decision to keep Goff at the helm so that he could do to Labour what Bill English did to national in 2002. Even the leaders office will suffer cutbacks due to the reduced vote. Some in the Goffice will be very nervous, not just because they were wedded to the disaster that was Phil Goff but because there simply isn’t enough cash now to retain them all.

This is the mess that Labour has inherited, but worse this is the mess they have charged a political novice with fixing. Does David Shearer have an Orewa speech in him? I don’t think so.

Without a shadow of a doubt, I can now see why Craig Foss wants to be a Minister.

He already has a gay ute, if he becomes a minister then he can travel in style with what a Gaywheels contributor describes as the unofficial gay car in Los Angeles:

…certain gay communities seem to prefer certain cars. The leather-and-Levis set loves a good truck; butch gals enjoy anything with 4×4, and for reasons yet to be explained, bears adore the tiniest of cars, like the MINI Cooper and the Mazda Miata. (This bodes well for the Fiat 500, no?)

And so, we weren’t really surprised yesterday when someone suggested that the BMW 7-Series is the unofficial gay car of Los Angeles. After all, communities can be tied to geography just as easily as body type, so it makes sense that LA’s up-and-commers would be drawn to the sleek, high-profile elegance of the 7-Series.

The Vehiclist explains:

Remember recently when Ron Howard and Vince Vaughan got into trouble for describing a car as “gay” in a movie trailer? It sparked a small debate about the approprietness of the word – particularily because it was used in derogetory terms. And lets face it: people who still use the word gay as an insult are idiots. End of argument. So lets move on.  Gay is not a bad thing, it is not an insult, so can it be applied to cars? Recently, a friend and I were having a conversation about the very subject. Turns out, in an impromptu inventory of his gay friend’s cars, one vehicle stood out. The BMW 7 series. Like 7 out of the 10 gay people he counted drove the 7 series. Now, understand that this friend travels in a typical 40 something ( albeit fabulous) crowd of successful people. People in different industries, but of a particular economic class, obviously. But still, why the high number of 7 Series? In my own experience, I too could think of a disproportionate number of gay people who had a BMW 7 series as well. Maybe there was a trend…

I bet Fossy’s Gay Ute can’t do this:

Fossy’s Gay Ute is getting a bit long in the tooth, he is probably looking for a replacement. Let’s use the power of the Whale Army to help him.

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Yes it does seem hard to believe, but some from the Nasty Party actually do have grace. Conceding in person is considered decent, but not often done by Labour. I’ve personally been along to Labour election night parties to support conceding National politicians, and had all sorts of shit hurled at me, but I have never seen a Labour candidate concede, ever. It is a rare sight.

Jacinda Ardern nearly beat Nikki Kaye, and in theory might win on specials. Even so she conceded in person showing grace that may well get her kicked out of Labour, but good on her for having the guts to front a National election night party when her party has taken an absolute bath.

In Tukituki Julia Haydon-Carr also conceded in person, and the tipline says managed to warm up the crowd by saying she didn’t mind losing to National but she did mind losing to a man with a gay ute. I reckon if she had made more of the “gay ute” issue she may well have swayed more of the bogan demographic into backing her. Her campaign vehicle next time should be a proper ute in order to shame Fossy.

Julia’s position on gay utes means joins Josie Pagani as Whaleoil endorsed left wing candidates.

From Craig Foss about Labour’s “Not Working for Families”

Good grief the Drunken Sailor is on a huge bender. Another $2.6b of labour borrowing to pay people not to work announced yesterday.

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With all the fuss at the moment about GAY number plates it is pleasing to see that Ford have released the new version of the Ranger.

Perhaps Fossy could kill two birds with one stone and get a new gay ute and a GAY number plate at the same time.

Back at the last election David Farrar and I trundled around the country in the Blogmobile.

On one of our stops we interviewed Craig Foss, before he had a gay ute. Some of the things he said three years ago have some relevance now.

On the question of Goff or Cunliffe he replied “Goff, although I’d see Shane Jones sneaking through the undergrowth and coming up the side”