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# Winston Schools Bridges
- URL: https://goodoil.news/winston-schools-bridges/
- Published: 2020-02-02T20:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-02-03T21:37:33.000Z
- Author: Xavier Theodore Reginald Ordinary
- Tags: Featured, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:24

**Winston Peters** has schooled **Simon Bridges** after Bridges announced he no longer had a path to victory.

*Newshub* reports:

> New Zealand First leader Winston Peters is “unfazed” by National Party leader Simon Bridges’ announcement on Sunday, where he ruled the party out as a potential coalition partner after the 2020 General Election.  
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> **“Let me say this – he’s got a lot to learn about politics. Narrowing your options can be the worst strategic move you will ever make,”** Peters said.  
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> “Having been in politics a long time, and a member of the National Party for over 25 years, the one thing New Zealand First is confident about is that if voters deliver that possibility, and **if Mr Bridges doesn’t pick up the phone, someone else within his caucus will do it for him.**  
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> “He has also demonstrated he has no insight into what a unified caucus looks like,” Peters said.  
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> “**As Douglas McArthur said, there’ll come a time soon when he’ll when \[*sic*\] want to see me much more than I want to see him.”**

He’s right. If the numbers don’t fall as Bridges expects then he’s going to have to choose between a deal with Winston or three more years in opposition.

Either way it’s the end of his career. Hubris always undoes political novices. I guess this is what happens when you rely on people like **Todd McClay** and **Paula Bennett** for strategy and your former advisors, Crosby Textor and Topham Guerin have sacked you as a client.

If Bridges doesn’t pick up the phone then I’m sure someone like Todd Mueller will. Bridges will be gutted like a trout before a deal is done. If they don’t then he will be gutted by his caucus, angry for having another three years in opposition.