Lack of enthusiasm for being chosen on both sides

I did a very unscientific Twitter poll (430 responses) yesterday asking people if they voted left or right and if they wanted Winston to choose National or Labour.

Now normally you’d expect say 90%+ of people who voted left to say they want Winston to choose Labour and ditto for right and National. The reason you vote for a party is so they can get to form Government.

The results however were:

• Left/Labour 19%
• Left/National 17%
• Right/National 43%
• Right/Labour 21%

Now again this is unscientific but I think still telling. Only 62% want Winston pick the side the voted for and 38% want Winston to choose the other side.

What this indicates is over a third of those responding think that going into Government with Winston will be worse in the long-term for the party they support than going into opposition.

This is why when he makes the decision I won’t be happy or sad.