Originally Posted by
Major von Tempsky
I'm not a fan or otherwise of Paula Bennett, I just take her as she comes.
It just strikes me that a blanket condemnation that she is totally useless and counterproductive is at total variance with the facts I quoted above that she won her seat with 10,000 more votes than the next highest candidate who happened to be Labour.
Obviously the average voter disagreed emphatically with your assessment which means you have to take a good look at yourself, the essence of democracy is that the average voter is right and people like Andrea Vance, Chris Trotter, John Minto, need to adjust themselves to reality.