Hooton’s Luxon Doom and Gloom: More Maverick Fantasy Than Political Reality
Hooton’s piece is entertaining fodder, but it’s wishful thinking from a guy who has been wrong before. The National Party’s inertia will keep Luxon in the saddle, for better or worse.
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What we have here is some pompous writer with TDS who thinks what he writes is soooo important. But this is what the left does. They make up stories or take stories written by others and present them as evidence of fact.
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Of Fuel and Fury
How can a government ministry blatantly fund political and ‘furious’ activism, yet there be so little media scrutiny? And why the fuel crisis should have been anticipated.
National MPs meet, rumours fly, and Luxon starts sounding like Sir Humphrey
The cabinet reshuffle on Thursday will be spun as business as usual. Do not believe it for one second. The meetings, the leaks, the grumpiness in Auckland and the raw numbers in caucus tell their own story.
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