Stanford’s Denials Fool No One: Penk Was Never the Lone Gunman
Stanford can deny it until she is blue in the face. Luxon can take them at their word. The rest of the country is under no such obligation.
Stanford can deny it until she is blue in the face. Luxon can take them at their word. The rest of the country is under no such obligation.
Luxon is dreaming if he believes Chris Penk was a lone gunman. There were many more involved. They are all now skulking around hoping someone like me does not put it all together.
He survives again. The immediate challenge is over. The tensions remain. The election is just over 12 weeks away. And the man who keeps winning these internal contests still looks very much like the loser.
The backstabbers are not going away. They are just waiting to see if three votes are still enough.
You cannot go around telling the people who keep the economy running that they need to grow up, then reverse ferret yourself the moment the headlines turn ugly. The apology does not land as sincerity. It lands as calculation.
The ship’s GPS needs recalculating to a different direction so tracking is improved going into the election. Will this happen? I guess time will tell. The ball is in Luxon’s court.
The truth always comes out. In this case, it already has and it does not look good for the Gangsta Mayor or those who tried to bury the stoush.
It is little wonder that levels of trust in our politicians are so low that one increasingly hears New Zealanders saying they don’t want to vote for any of them.
From studying serial killers to seeking parliament.
Willis would do well to focus on fixing the books rather than picking fights she cannot win.
If National keeps this up, they risk handing Winston an even stronger hand in post-election negotiations. Attacking him now could exact a fair bit of utu later.