You Belong With Me: The Age of 2016's NZ Politics in 1976

Hi Future Mates.
You know the title to today's Post is named after a song from the future, famously known for having won the MTV VMAs in 2009 when Kanye West ruined Taylor Swift's Acceptance Speech by saying ''Imma let you finish" despite Kanye West (who would later Marry Kim Kardashian and have 2 kids, North and Saint) saying that Beyonce has the greatest Music video of All time (Referring to Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It), the 2008 single, the flip side is If I Were A Boy). Colombian Singer Shakira and Twilight Actor Taylor Lautner presented the award for Best Female Video that year. Kanye's Complete 2009 VMAs Acceptance Speech dialogue is  "Yo, Taylor, I'm really happy for you and I'mma let you finish, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time. One of the best videos of all time!"

That was from 13 September 2009 (2 days before my owner's 11th Birthday). Back to the present (in Robyn's words, 1976) The Mayor Of Auckland, Dove-Myer Robinson was originally from England, before moving to New Zealand in 1914 at the age of 13. He entered Politics after WWII Ended (Late 1940s).

If The Future's (Today in my Owner's Words) Politics (Yes, National Party is government in Both 1976 and 2016) ages would be like Now (40 years ago in my owner's words).

National Party Members in 2016:
David Carter, 29th Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives, 24 in 1976
John Key, 38th Prime Minister of New Zealand, 15 in 1976
Bill English, 39th Minister of Finance and 17th Deputy Prime Minister, 14 in 1976 (despite being born on 30th December 1961)
Gerry Brownlee, Leader of The House (in 2016), 20 in 1976
Murray McCully, 27th Minister of Foreign Affairs, 23 in 1976


Other Political Party Leaders:
Andrew Little, 35th Leader of the Opposition and 16th Leader of the Labour Party, 11 in 1976 (there was only one TV Channel in New Plymouth in 1976, Television One)
James Shaw, 3rd Male co-leader of the Green Party, 3 in 1976 (He is from Wellington, where Television One was located from 1976 until 1980)
Metiria Turei, 2nd Female co-leader of the Green Party, 6 in 1976
Winston Peters, Leader of The New Zealand First Party, 31 in 1976
Te Ururoa Flavell, Co-Leader of The Māori Party, 20 in 1976 (despute being born on 6th December 1955)
Marama Fox,  Co-Leader of The Māori Party, presumably a late pre-teen or early teen in 1976
David Seymour, Leader of ACT New Zealand, wasn't born yet in 1976 (he was born in 1983)
Peter Dunne, Leader of United Future, 22 in 1976

Main Centre Leaders:
Len Brown, 40th Mayor of Auckland, 20 in 1976
Stuart Crosby, 28th Mayor of Tauranga, presumably a teen in 1976
Julie Hardaker, 34 Mayor of Hamilton, NZ, 16 in 1976
Celia Wade-Brown, 34th Mayor of Wellington, 20 in 1976 (living in The UK at that time, moved to Wellington in 1983)
Lianne Dalziel, 46th Mayor of Christchurch, 16 in 1976
Dave Cull, 57th Mayor of Dunedin, 26 in 1976

The next post will be about last night.
See you later Mates.
Robyn Gallagher.