Stephanie Rodgers

This morning in New Zealand politics can best be summed up with one fantastic image.

I dragged myself out of bed at the ungodly hour of 9am to tune in to the first leaders’ debate of the election season – and it’s mostly Colin Craig’s fault. Had he not taken legal action to force the producers to give him a speaking slot I might honestly have missed that it was even on!

For that, and for trying to talk over Metiria Turei, resulting in the photo above, you have my grudging thanks, Colin.

In the true spirit of 21st century pseudo-journalism, here are my thoughts (and some others’) as they were tweeted in real time.

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497857883950698496

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497858159331913728

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497858237987704832

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497858546877231104

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497858696395755520

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497858800775229440

(Sale to overseas buyers, obviously.)

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497858994254270464

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497859352670117888

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497859663556128768

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497859921489039360

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497860004171374592

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497860683896066048

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497860829409067008

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497860959969374210

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497861025765392386

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497861656630665216

https://twitter.com/danylmc/status/497861966568767489

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497862184118915072

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497862234840629248

(It’s a great line, but also a deliberately-engineered political meme.)

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497862379812581376

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497862455159054336

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497862598209990656

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497862780360200192

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497863340962500608

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497863433904087041

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497863500262174720

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497863700733120512

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497863909261316096

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497864047669170176

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497864128115916800

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497864431125032960

https://twitter.com/danylmc/status/497864956751015936

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497865407538016257

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497865572294459393

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497865858618630146

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497866167025815552

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497866335196434432

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497866723534446592

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497866796209156096

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497867009212698624

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497867315141021696

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497867391410253824

https://twitter.com/petergraczer/status/497870897349287936

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497867714958880768

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497868118681604096

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497868381211484160

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497868643791675392

https://twitter.com/stephanierodgrs/status/497869238984384512

(Full credit to @petergraczer for the fantastic pic of Metiria’s take-no-crap attitude.)