Originally Posted by
Major von Tempsky
Hmmm, sounds to me like the Mayor of Hamilton will be re-elected by a much bigger vote from what you say.
Something reminds me of when Helen Clark was reduced to tears and refused to go back to Waitangi.
After the sheer cheek and insolence of these Waitangi ratbags to the elected Prime Minister of New Zealand I would recommend that (1) Bill English doesn't return to Waitangi no matter what, even a grovelling apology, but tour other centres which have been missing out such as O'Kains Bay, the South Island Waitangi Treaty centre and (2) all Government funding to the Waitangi celebration be immediately stopped, permanently (3) we revert to a New Zealand Day again (wasn't it Norman Kirk who instituted that?) . The average NZer is sick and tired of all these professional troublemaker beneficiaries wrecking the Waitangi occasion and they need to be sent a strong, unmistakeable and permanent message!