The past two weeks certainly have been interesting in New Zealand politics. Buccaneer Brash sails into the Act caucus and makes Rodney Hide walk the plank one week and Hone the Horrible blunders through the political landscape in true barbarian fashion in the next. Suddenly, the rather colourless election looming in November looks like it [...]
I see Don Brash has learned no new political skills since ceasing to be a National MP. I don’t know who is advising him, if anyone, but the man really does need some significant help. What on earth possessed him to try for the leadership of ACT? Much has been made of the fact that Brash [...]
Apparently that nice Mr. Key is less than enthusiastic about the economic recommendations for his former rival Don Brash. Gasp! Shock. Horror. Not. Without even looking at Brash’s recommendations I could have told you that they will be rejected out of hand by Key. The entire taskforce was never designed to produce any viable suggestion. [...]
The phrase “We’ll get back to you” is commonly used as a brush-off to avoid answering an awkward question. Howard Broad may have been saying the same thing today, when he announced that he will have a senior police investigator “look into” the Don Brash email case. At this point that is simply not good enough [...]
