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Mt Roskill by-election: a small flicker of light in a very dark period for Labour

To keep things in perspective, an almost exact parallel can be drawn to Labour's Christchurch East by-election win in 2013.

Sun, 04 Dec 2016

The Labour Party winning Mt Roskill should not, ordinarily, be subject for much in the way of excitable comment.

In terms of indicating any swing in politics, it is a bit like the National Party winning Waikato. In normal times, it would be barely worthy of comment. 

So claims of a

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