Todd McClay

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Two non-gay utes, in the wild, off-road no less, outside a strangely closed Maritime Union office in Tauranga. Fossy’s gay ute would have struggled with that off-road action.

Ignore the scum list MP, this award is for the best electorate MP.

Could it be Damien O’Connor, for doing what no other Labour MP could do anywhere else in the country and win a seat off a sitting National MP?

How about Todd McClay who increased his majority in Rotorua and dispatched Steve Chadwick for good?

Nikki Kaye for beating Labour number 4 ranked ‘star’ Jacinda Ardern?

Sam Lotu Iiga for cementing his reputation as a fine local MP and making sure that Carol Beaumont is looking for anew job?

Colin King is invisible in Wellington but his electorate loves him returning him with a massive majority, the shearing community loves him too.

There are many, many choices, put your nominations in the comments and the reasons why you think your local MP should get the Whaleoil Award for Best Electorate MP.

UPDATE: I clean forgot about Nicky Wagner, she was the only National MP to take a hard hat Labour seat of a sitting Labour MP.

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.

Steve Chadwick is finding it hard adjusting to life as a constituent after Todd McClay handed her an electoral spanking.

Judy T is Facebooking her and she is whining about having to look for a job and handing back her iPad and laptop. It certainly looks like she is living Labour’s slogan nice and hard.

What was it that Helen Clark said once? Oh that’s right…”Diddums!”

Todd McClay, Sam Lotu Iiga and Tim MacIndoe all won on Saturday, with increased majorities.

Unsurprisingly they were also standing against some Labour nasties. Steve Chadwick, Carol Beaumont and Sue Moroney. Only Sue Moroney remains in parliament after the blood bath of November 26.

Another Labour nasty who is now unemployed was Carmel Sepuloni. She took the fight in Waitakere to Paula Bennett but Paula showed a great deal of mongrel and proved more adept at wrestling with pigs than the Septic Tank.

There is a moral in this story. If you want to be nasty, spiteful and awful then you will lose to candidates who are likeable and real. Having a sneering smack bum face all the time doesn’t endear you to voters.

Oh look the Repeaters at the Herald are following me again.

Despite being acquitted of the crime, Chris Kahui murdered his twin sons, Chris and Cru, in 2006, National MP for Rotorua Todd McClay has said under cover of parliamentary privilege.

Addressing Parliament last week during the second reading of the Crimes Amendment Bill (No 2) Mr McClay brought up the deaths of the 3-month-olds as one example of the “very many cases of children being abused, harmed” each year.

“We had another high-profile case of the Kahui twins, who were murdered … I believe Chris Kahui killed those children, but … that is for others to consider now.”

Maybe they found out about what he said from this post yesterday.

The tipline brought be a heads up of this video yesterday.

It’s from Todd McClay’s speech on the anti-child abuse law that Simon Power put through the house.

Boris isn’t an MP that shies away from saying what he thinks. He makes an interesting observation on the Kahui Twins case.

Here’s the video.

And from Hansard:

We had another high-profile case of the Kāhui twins, who were murdered. There were many adults in that home, and nobody knows what happened. There has been a high-profile court case, but nobody stepped up to say they knew what happened, they knew the person responsible, or that this is what we should do. Nobody has even said they wished they had acted to stop that from happening. Personally, I believe Chris Kāhui killed those children.

It’s little wonder why he’s known in Rotorua for being tough on crime. Screaming banshees like Mr Steve Chadwick will moan about what Boris has said about the Kahui case, but this will prove popular with voters because he’s got the balls to say what everyone has been thinking.

The sooks in the MSM who were too scared to publish anything about Chris Kahui can now do so with the protection of qualified privilege.

I saw an article in the Herald on Sunday about the King Cobra gang that referenced Todd McClay’s private members bill about gang patches.

Coincidentally I was reading on Andrew Sullivan a snippet from an article about the Economics of Gang Colors.

If you’re a criminal, one of your principal challenges involves knowing whom it’s safe to do business with. You don’t want to sell to an undercover cop, obviously, but you also don’t want to sell to an eager-but-clueless criminal who may well get caught and drag you down with him. Like certain ostentatious displays by males in the animal kingdom, gang colors serve as a handicap, [economist Andrew] Mell argues: Yes, they make it more likely that the person wearing them will be caught. Yet they semaphore the following message: If I’m still willing to commit crimes when I have this handicap, I must be pretty good at evading the police. Incompetent criminals couldn’t get away with wearing gang colors.

Yesterday was a day for awards. Firstly I gave Clayton Cosgrove a Bronze Star for his truthful explanation of why Labour supported the Christchurch earthquake enabling legislation. Then I gave a Silver Star to Simon Bridges for a brilliant Facebook wall comment.

Unfortunately for Clayton Cosgrove the sheer shock of getting an award from me went straight to his head and he decided to try and score points against Judith Collins by asking her to compare real numbers (they are good) with projections (which are moronic) on Police numbers. The ensuing chaos as poor Plughead got a maths lesson from the minister and another supplementary lesson in dealing with reality rather than figures conjured up by the Police Association was something to behold. You almost feel sorry for the guy, up to his arms in sh*t at home and it’s over his head at work.

To top all that off Louise Upston mocked him by saying he can’t count on her Facebook wall. Todd McClay, ever the quick wit, added the following;

Clayton Cosgrove is a count

Gold Star for Boris. Actually I think he should get the Kevin Taylor Truth in Politics Award. Him and Simon Bridges can be the inaugural nominees.

Of course I must also hand out a Gold Star to Judith Collins for her comments on the dopers smoking it up on the lawn outside parliament.

Police Minister Judith Collins wasn’t impressed to learn what protestors had got away with.

“Well there is a moron born every moment, you know, people like that,” she said.

“I’m sure if you look at the policing act you’ll see that I’m not in a position to tell police how to enforce the law but I also know that if they do enforce the law in matters like that there will be plenty of people willing to criticise them for doing so.”

No wonder Plughead got a flogging again after that.

It’s only Monday and I’m afraid we have a hands down winner for Politician of the week and sadly for Pedobear Power who was hoping beyond all reason that his nanny state reaction-ism to booze would get him across the line, it isn’t him, it is Todd McClay for being a real Kiwi bloke.

Todd McClay humping a Boar