29-05-2023, 01:26 PM
(26-05-2023, 06:30 PM)Zurdo Wrote: I once voted for the Communist Party. There were only 3 options on the form - L, N or C...so I went for C.
So did I once for Jack Locke (Elsie's husband). He was the doorkeeper for the Canterbury Trades Council in the 1970s ensuring undesirables did not attend. As a Union President at the time I could not vote National!
Later their son Keith became a Green MP.
Mary Batchelor was the only Labour MP who would regularly attend Trades Council meetings, the others suddenly appeared just before an election ~ what cynicism.
Before a previous election I once apologized to Russel Norman (a nice guy) for the poor attendance at our local UH Grey Power meeting, but when Winston Peters turned up for his electioneering there was standing room only ~ I then gave up on Grey Power.