Ingrid Leary is about to resign it seems
The local Waiheke Island MP for Dunedin South (now known as Taieri).
This is Waiheke Island
It sits by road about 21 hours from Dunedin. By flight it’s effectively 4-5 hours away (30 mins to Dunedin Airport, wait for your plane and then 2 hours to Auckland & then a helicopter to Waiheke Island). Waiheke Island’s climate is a warm temperate one but some of the micro-climates on the island are possibly verging on sub-tropical. It is a very trendy place to live and very expensive to buy a house there. On average it is about 5-6°C (about 10°F) warmer than here in Dunedin where we get snow in the winters.
Two ferries are required actually. One from the South Island to the North Island and the other from Auckland to Waiheke Island. It is indeed quite the trip. Ingrid Leary is from Waiheke Island, well she’s originally from Auckland (population about 1.6 million) but let’s not get too pedantic.
She lives on Waiheke Island for all intents and purposes and maintains a carpetbag residence just across the road from where I am currently. She was never interested in Dunedin a city of 140k and was caught on Waiheke Island radio deriding us a few years ago as hicks.
As above I live quite close by to her Dunedin (carpetbag) residence. She hasn’t been here since late November I’m told (I have been in Melbourne until recently but this information is reliable). Her car has been parked nearby in the same spot until a few days ago. Gathering cobwebs and leaves. Her van was parked about 300 metres up the road more or less on the same street it too not moving the whole time. But neither are there anymore as of two days ago and nor have they moved to another part of the street. They seem to have been picked up and taken elsewhere and I don’t think that Ingrid Leary, local MP remember, is back in town.
And this is a shame as she’s incompetent enough for the Labour Party to lose the seat. But then the Labour Party has never ever given this very safe Labour seat a decent MP. Well not for many a year anyway (need I mention Clare Curran and David Benson Pope). So I am wondering what upper middle class prat they will throw at us for the coming election.
Update 29th Jan: the cars are back & so is Ingrid (briefly or longer). She must have gone on a tiki tour.
Ingrid Leary is about to resign it seems
It seems odd that she was able to live on Waiheke Island and be available to serve the people of Dunedin. I am surprised there wasn't an outcry.
Out of interest what do you guys think of Chris Luxon ?
Dunedin I assume is full of Labour-ites who would want the job.
What did Leary have going for her that the Labour Party selected her?