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Gilbert Myles, and Why the Concerned Auckland Trotting Club Reformers Should Replace Him

by : peterprofitracing
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Gilbert Myles was a Robert Muldoon loving rank and file member of the NZ National Party (their equivalent of the LNP or the Liberal Party) who in 1990 stood as a stooge in the seemingly unwinnable seat of Roskill in Auckland – which had been held by Labour since 1957, and was considered the safest of seats – and, on the back of a massive landslide against the Lange Govt and its Rogernomics policy of selling every government asset that moves, fluked a win by a short half-head.

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