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No he [Shonkey] isn't - he knows how to create a distraction.
So we decide which flag to change to THEN decide if we want to change?
So the pointless waste-of-money fiasco is over and the result
seemed to be widely predicted. The arse-about-face idiotic,
non-methodology spoke volumes about the many mental mid-
gets involved.
Next will be the excuses, vacuous analyses, finger-pointing,
etc., to be then followed by the next distraction.
A whip round of expected hoo-hah and hogwash comments. No one is better than a politician at making a silk purse out of a sow's ear:
Speaking to media at Auckland Airport on Thursday night before flying out to the USA, Key he was "a little bit disappointed," but the high levels of interest in the process meant it was a success, he said.
Labour leader Andrew Little criticised what he called the Prime Minister's "personal crusade".
"Time and again we heard voters say there were higher priorities for the $26 million the referendum cost taxpayers.
But as Key licks his wounds, he will be consoled by the fact that regardless of feelings running high over the flag change, his personal popularity has barely budged throughout. That makes any charge that the referendum result was a protest vote against Key and his government hard to stick.
The result and turnout were high enough, meanwhile, to avoid the process being labelled an expensive flop.
But Thursday night's result is all about Key and his big defeat. His mana will be slightly diminished, not with New Zealanders, but among his own caucus, who will question him leading a failed campaign.
The result was closer than I thought it would be - I am relieved we haven't chosen that 'weetbix packet' design. I agreed with Sam Neill's comments - "become a Republic, change the flag and national anthem".
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