The Star: July 30, 2020

Thursday July 30 2020 The Star
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loom large for city’s voters
He was not impressed with
National’s response to the
pandemic and criticism of the
Labour-led Government.
“They are just trying to pick
out the small mistakes and blow
them out of proportion,” he said.
Psychology and philosophy
student
Angeline
Leversedge
scoffed when
asked if she
would consider
voting for
National.
Angeline
Leversedge
“God no,”
she said.
“I honestly
don’t see a situation where I
would support them. The whole
Covid situation showed how bad
they are, being focused on profits
as opposed to people.”
The 22-year-old, who was
still deciding which party she
would give her vote to was very
complimentary towards Ardern
and her leadership throughout
the term.
“She has done an incredible
job given everything she has had
to put up with, a terror attack,
volcanic eruption, a baby, Covid.”
While biology student Bryan
Menger was also undecided
on what party he would vote
for, National was an unlikely
recipient.
Bryan
Menger
“They
change their
leader as
much as their
underwear.
I did not
like Crusher
Collins back
when I was
a bit of a boy
racer and I
don’t like her now,” he said.
Since becoming an MP in
2008, Collins has developed a
reputation for being outspoken
and was nicknamed “Crusher
Collins” after proposing
legislation to ‘crush’ the cars of
persistent boy racers.
“I did not like Crusher
Collins back when I was
a bit of a boy racer and I
don’t like her now.”
– Bryan Menger
Twenty-one-year-old
astronomy student Lucinda
Shirreffs said she was leaning
towards Labour and thought
Collins seemed like “a bit of
Karen.”
‘Karen’ is a stereotypical name
used by millenials and those of
generation Z to describe rude,
obnoxious and insufferable
middle-aged white women.
Shirreffs implied National
showed a lack of appeal to her
generation.
“I don’t
know anyone
my age that
is voting
National, all
my friends are
either Labour
Lucinda
Shirreffs
or Green,” she
said.
“From
what I have
seen they [National] seem a bit
out of sorts right now, a bit of a
shambles kind of.”
While support for Collins and
the National Party dwindled
throughout campus, it was
strong throughout dog walkers in
Fendalton Park.
This was epitomised by Rob
Hempseed.
When asked who he would
be voting for, he responded:
“Definitely blue, not that I like
the Blues, I like the Crusaders.”
“People have been spoonfed
for too long and they have forgot
how to be self-reliant. There
is no such thing as poverty in
New Zealand, it is financial
mismanagement by the people
themselves.”
Hempseed thought the new
leadership of the party would
give it a boost heading into
September’s elections.
STAUNCH: Rob Hempseed
thinks National’s leadership
in Judith Collins and deputy
Gerry Brownlee is brilliant.
Lass is getting a walk.
“I think it is brilliant, at the
top you have got both genders
covered, male and female, and
you have got the North and
South Island balance. Judith
Collins doesn’t mince her words,
so action will be seen to be done,”
he said.
He spoke fondly of Ilam MP
Brownlee, who he claims to have
known since the senior MP was a
“small boy.”
“Gerry, he is another one who
is prepared to speak his mind, he
had a poisoned chalice with EQC,
he was not the only person there,
there were other people there that
should have had the skills.”
Andrea
Louisson, who
was walking
her dog
Claude when
approached by
The Star, was
also planning
to vote for
Andrea
Louisson
National.
“Especially
now with
Judith Collins,
I think she has got more going
for her economically. I think she
will be better for the country
economically because we need
to tighten the reins after the big
spend, and the virus is not going
to go away so we have to work
around it without more people
losing jobs,” she said.
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