Utter Baloney

Guyon Espiner calls himself a political reporter?

Clearly he doesn't know how to count. Here's his ill thought outburst from today's 'Breakfast Show.'

ONE News political editor Guyon Espiner believes National could lose the election if they get the decision on Christchurch land wrong.

He told TV ONE's Breakfast that it is vital the government gets it right.

"[There are] huge risks, you'd lose an election, despite the moral and ethical problems of getting it wrong and people not getting a fair deal, it's massive and they have got to get it right," he said.

A pity he didn't count up the number of voters in Christchurch's metropolitan electorates before he opened his trap.

Leftie commenter Milkenmild over at Farrar's Troll Farm counted the numbers and here's his conclusion.

1. mikenmild (453) Says:
   June 22nd, 2011 at 4:08 pm

   DavidC

   Your question interested me. There were 250,000 party votes cast in the seven Christchurch electorates last time, out of 2.3 million nationwide. The proportions for Christchurch were roughly the same as nationally. Even a 20% swing to Labour across the Christchurch electorates would only shift the nationwide proportion by about one percentage point. Basically, Christchurch is too small to count for much nationally.

Sounds much more sensible than a breathless and over excited TV spruiker.