Apex

Russel Norman's awful grey billboard has appeared around where I live in the West of the electorate - and it smudges into the background, blurs into the clouds and it washes away in the sky. Compare that to Shearer's Labour red.
Russ the puss. Dr Norman, you look equally at home in either Canberra or Wellington, since you asked.

Oh, look at him. He was never a party to anything. If he had the police insist on a 200 metre exclusion order to prevent him going anywhere near the office then maybe he can pose there like it means something. (We argued it down to 50m so I could get in to the Eden Park entry point on the other side of the street - the judge agreed, cricket and rugby are forms of human rights in this country).

With Russ playing a muss and Melissa Lee slipping into a spiral of crippling political bamboozlement, the Labour man is cruising to a solid majority - at this point. A bleak budget and a Hikoi against the über city all occur before the by-election - everything is going their way.

Sacrificed Auckland issues spokesman - the man who Phil Goff has doubled down on with the Tizard tarot card of death - Phil Twyford, can even spin a "bring back Ravi" jibe and it isn't a stupid an idea as half the crap Lee has been babbling.