Down the Drain?

I've not been paying a lot of attention to the Auckland mayoral race; I've consequently not been trading in those markets save for a very low price punt ($0.007/share) on Jenny Shipley perhaps throwing her hat in the race.

No Minister says Len Brown's campaign for mayor is "down the drain":

 After what must be described as two weeks of the worst possible PR imaginable, Len Brown's campaign for the Auckland Mayoralty has surely fallen apart. His soft-liberal support has abrubtly collapsed in the face of his disturbed public antics and his council credit card spend.

Hmmm.

Strange kind of collapse, that one.  Wonder if anybody at No Minister's trading on this one.