How to save money on MPs’ salaries – just leave seats vacant when no-one can muster solid support

Can't find the missing Labour voters down here - what about down your hole?

Alf is delighted to see Labour leaders with their bums up and heads in the sand. This seriously improves National’s prospects of increasing its numbers in Parliament at the next election.

He says this after learning Labour’s leadership (according to the Herald) has been “putting on a brave face over the party’s sharply reduced majority in the weekend’s Mana byelection…”

Winnie was a faa foi better thing for Mana than the bloke they have just elected, obviously

Alf was chuffed by the result in the Mana by-election.

Betcha The Boss is chuffed, too.

Hekia Parata has demolished one of Labour’s strongholds in much the same way as Crusher Collins wants to demolish the cars of boy racers, turning the electorate into something much more marginal.