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Well Cobra, my personal opinion of Helen Clark is that she is false and tyrannical. A former partner of mine worked in her office.

Let me put it this way. I am no way homphobic. I have gay and transexual friends and accept them for who they are.

There are however persistent rumours which I have personal reasons for accepting as true, that say she is lesbian and her husband is gay. That according to this persistent rumour and based on comments by a best friend in his (Dr Brian Edwards') biography of Helen Clark, it is suggested the marriage was a sham marriage of convenience to get her elected.

Now if that is true and I personally believe it is, then it runs to the core of whether you can trust someone who would lie to get elected ?

She has however done a lot of good, but I believe there are many instances where she has abused her power to silence critics in a bullying manner.

I am very wary of her because she has surrounded herself with sycophant ministers of questionable ethics and competency. The $64,000 question is have the other side got anything better to offer. Remains to be seen if the National Party offer anything truely new or if they are just tired old hacks ?