NZ's Next MP

This is hardly an expose, anyone who can use Google can find this out:

With Rt Hon Jonathan Hunt ONZ departing to a diplomatic post in an English Speaking country that plays cricket (They should have chosen Pakistan) the next candidate on the Labour Party list (Number 42) will become an MP - Lesley Soper.

Soper is a good Labour person, she works for the NZEI (Union of Primary School Teachers) is the CTUs man in Invercargill, Deputy Chair of Southern Health Board and even finds time to be Womens Vice-President of the Labour Party. But just where do her politics really sit:

Ray Fife of the Maritime Union had this to say about comparing new Labour Invercargill Candidate Wayne Harpur in the Dec 04 "Maritimes" Magazine (Magazine of the Maritime Union):

"As our branch is affilated to Labour Party we were able to attend the selection meeting to pick the next candidate to represent Labour at the elections next year. [2005]

"Our union, and most other unions at the gathering supported Leslie Soper, a centre left candidate who got the floor vote and also the vote of the local union rep who was voted onto the selection panel by the floor.

"We were disappointed when we found out that a centre right candidate got the nod by the selection panel."

So Wayne Harpur, a Labour Party candidate is 'centre-right' when compared to Lesley Soper. I'm sure this is news to Wayne and the Labour Party Executive who supported him!