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# See Ya Sweetie, Don’t Let the Door Hit You in the Backside on the Way Out
- URL: https://goodoil.news/see-ya-sweetie-dont-let-the-door-hit-you-in-the-backside-on-the-way-out/
- Published: 2020-06-29T21:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-06-30T21:43:56.000Z
- Author: Xavier Theodore Reginald Ordinary
- Tags: Election 2020, Featured, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:00

After **Anne Tolley** saw the writing on the wall, it was only a matter of time before the second half of the dastardly duo, [**Paula Bennett**, was shown the exit](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300044628/paula-bennett-stepping-down-from-politics-at-election-after-national-leadership-changes?ref=goodoil.news).

Sure she has been allowed the dignity of announcing it herself, but make no mistake, she was told in no uncertain terms to sling her hook.

> National MP and former deputy prime minister Paula Bennett is retiring from politics at the September election, she announced in Auckland this morning.  
>  
> Bennett was deputy leader of the party and its campaign chair as recently as May, but was ousted from those roles when Todd Muller and Nikki Kaye staged a caucus coup.  
>  
> She was demoted 11 spots in Muller’s first reshuffle.  
>  
> [stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300044628/paula-bennett-stepping-down-from-politics-at-election-after-national-leadership-changes](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300044628/paula-bennett-stepping-down-from-politics-at-election-after-national-leadership-changes?ref=goodoil.news)

That was a moment of weakness from **Todd Muller** who should have cut throats a lot sooner.

It looks like Muller may not match Jacinda Ardern on kindness to failing senior people. He cuts their throats; she defends the indefensible.

This was a signal to **Winston Peters** that those really behind the smear job against him are now history, thereby opening the door quietly, at least in the backrooms of parliament.

Now everyone involved in the Jami-Lee Ross take down has lost their jobs:

- Simon Bridges
- Paula Bennett
- Sarah Dowie
- Jamie Gray
- Rhonda Williams

All that image building Bennett did in the last 3 years has come to nothing.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/paula-bennett.jpg)

The BFD

Good riddance to bad rubbish I say.