Political Party Leadership Shifts

Morning and welcome to the show. Coming up today, Chris Hitkins on when the Copper Should have told the police that he's off to join the Labour Party. Plus, why it's okay for Chippy to use the super to buy a beach house, but you can't. We've got claims of aluminium dumping, the aluminium industry on that and where this stuff is coming from. The stout show the money that's stopping Spark from replacing all the old payphones around the country. We've got Catherine Field doing France for us, End of Brady in the UK, and we'll get the Middle East expert Jeffrey Price to explain what's going on with the Iran ceasefire after eight. Heather Duplical. So what do you reckon? Can one nation keep polling like this all the way through to the next Australian election in a couple of years? What's happening to this party is nothing short of remarkable at the moment. They are now the most popular party on Australia in three polls over the last fortnight. And that includes the news poll poll, which is a little bit like the TV and Z poll for us. It is the big one. It's the one that people talk about. If an election was held today, one nation would be forming a government. Pauline Hansen would be the Prime Minister of Australia. Now, my pick is they can't hold this for two years for one reason. Personnel. They've got the same problem that Nigel Farage has with reform over in the UK. Same problem Winston Peters has with New Zealand first here. They end up needing so many candidates fast that they bring in numpties. Winston is famous for this. He's famous for bringing in Motley Cruz, isn't he? Most recently, Andy Foster, who's currently routing the accommodation allowance by now claiming money to pay for him to live in a house he's owned in Wellington since 2000. My favourite numpty, though, is the one that was brought in by Nigel Farage in the recent council elections in the UK. The woman who said she wasn't ready for the job because she didn't know what an amendment was. And that's the trouble that Pauline Hansen's gonna have. She has to find maybe 150, maybe 180 candidates for both parliamentary and senate elections. Each of them has to be vetted for skeletons. Each of them has to be media trained, they have to learn the policies, they have to be taught not to say anything other than the approved lines and policies. Now that is without this party even having to come up with credible policy and everything else that's required to convince voters that they're ready to run the country. I reckon one nation will probably still have a rip snorter of an election in two years. They'll do well, but well enough to actually install a prime minister. Again, have a look at Pauline Hansen. Their problem is personnel.