It's a bit windy at Wellington airport, so Winston Raymond Peters was delayed on his way to Canterbury University today for is series of flirtations with tertiary students.

This gave ACT on Campus plenty of time to prepare for his coming.

Andy Moore designed the material:

“WHEN WINSTON
SAYS NO,
HE MEANS NO.”

YEAH RIGHT.

www.actoncampus.org.nz

And Peter McC text-reminded us, of course, to make sure Nick Kerney's home address got slapped on there too.

On the way there with the flyers I met Justin the Nat. He said "you" should have a nice big A2 poster with "NO" on it. Smart guy that Justin.

When Peters arrived he was struck at once by our signs (see Josh and Brennan here on the right) and not a little bit ticked off! This photo was taken from the perspective of Andy and I who were out-flanking the political relic with the same signs on the left. He wanted to know if we were National or ACT so I told him. Poor guy must be hurting, he spent his first five minuites lashing out at the ACT Party! We said nothing, just held up our signs but that was enough to launch him off into a major defensive on how those investigating him haven't found anything. Peters tried to get stuck in to Brennan and Josh, asking if they knew all about John Boscawen's secret trust funds and our millions of secret dollars of campaign stash?

How the hell does a guy as paranoid as that not die of his own personal cancer?

He gave a speech about our grandmothers, told us that they worry about us and we should call some time. Then it was time for questions.

Nuclear proliferation?

"A substantial number of New Zealand politicians are against nuclear weapons....blah blah"

Gonna win Tauranga?

"I've done lots for Tauranga....built two bridges...give them everything they want..."

Have you accepted God into your heart yet?

"Rend unto Cesar...etc"

"Stop trying to turn this into a Mosque!"

Justin asked (in his Justin way) if students shouldn't get special favours the same way old folks did?

"Why, yes. My pal here [didn't catch his name], candidate for [didn't catch his electorate] is helping with that. We're going to have a special gold card for students! Still working on it, will be telling you all about it real soon."

Who will you form a coalition with?

"I am not a mystic. I am not psychic. I cannot see into the future. I cannot tell you what cards I will play when the cards have not even been dealt!"

Blahblahblah, more digs at ACT. More of the usual stuff about how the media is all against him.

Pretty much bullshit and I didn't think he carried it all that well. But it was done with his silky, hypnotic style. Entertaining and charming, he left an impression that everyone commented on afterwards. Mostly those I spoke to were worried that he was so convincing that some of our silly fellow students would vote for the old bandit!

Before he left, Peters had to pick a sign for the sign competition. He pointed out to Josh who had the half of the sign that said "yeah right," so that means ACT On Campus wins! Not sure what we got. Peters said our sign was the best and must refer to the statement that National are going to win the election.

Another good political event on campus, much credit to UCSA President Michael Goldstein for making it so.