Did you vote in New Zealand's 2014 National election?

So after trotting down to one of the local election spots on Saturday morning to vote, I dropped off a load of washing to one of my besties as her machine was broken, did a few errands then came back home and waited for the results to come in.

Here are the main parties that are here in NZ so if you want to check out their policies links are below:
National Party
Labour Party
Green Party
Internet Mana Party
NZ First Party
Act Party

Since in my humble opinion politicians rarely do what they say anyway I wasn't very optimistic that there would be a change and I was right. For another 3 years we got the same as we've had for the last 3 years. sigh. Oh well might as well just roll with it right?

Comments

Kayger said…

We're happy with the result - anything is better than letting a mixture of Labour Greens and NZF in

22 September 2014 at 09:28

Amypie71 said…

Actually I voted with NZF, I'm not impressed with JK and DC has about as much personality as a wet dishcloth. lol

22 September 2014 at 09:41

Kayger said…

I agree with the latter lol

23 September 2014 at 11:08

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