Scoop Video: Selwyn Manning Interviews Matt Robson
Thursday, 15 September 2005, 12:00 am Article: Scoop Video
Scoop Video: Selwyn Manning Interviews
Matt Robson
Is the Progressive Party
being caned in the polls for being too close to Labour?
Will its deputy leader and Parliament's man of social
conscience, Matt Robson, be returned to Parliament?
If not, what will he do? Scoop co-editor Selwyn Manning
interviews Matt Robson about how he sees this
election.
How
do you rate this election in terms of the public having an
informed choice?
The centre-left is having a hard
time of it. What is that so?
When you entered
Parliament as an MP what were you seeking to
achieve?
What have you achieved?
What
would you like to achieve?
Molesworth &
Featherston's poll calculations display Progressives as
registering 0.28% With Wigram going to Jim Anderton that
still isn't enough to return you to Parliament.
How
do you see your chances?
Should it all go belly-up
for the centre-left on Saturday, what are your plans in the
short term?
If you are robbed of a Valedictory
Speech, would you like to broadcast that via Scoop's very
flash embedded video?
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