One swallow does not make a summer

A number of people are getting all excited over Winston Peters appearing on Q&A and what this may mean for 2011. The saying “One swallow does not make a summer” comes to mind.

There is a huge difference between going on a TV show, and trying to get a party that has been booted out of Parliament back in – something never done in NZ. You have to find candidates, money, staff etc and that is hard work, and Winston has never been one for hard work.

Peters will be 66 in 2011 and his party has dropped away to 1% in the latest Roy Morgan poll. While I have no doubt Peters, with a good campaign, can lift it from 1%, that 5% threshold is a tough one to make. It means Peters has to find 100,000 more people to vote for him than the 25,000 who currently support him.

In a way I would like him to stand. That way we can all get to ask him about the $158,000 not repaid to the taxpayer.