Remarkably, National was able to put up hoardings advertising its Mt Roskill candidate Parmjeet Parmar the very day she was selected. A cynic might suggest National’s selection of the scientist, businesswoman, broadcaster and community advocate was as predetermined as that of her Labour opponent, lifelong activist Michael Wood, who, even more remarkably, was the only Labour candidate to put his hand up back in June for one of the safest red seats in the country.