I think we are witnessing a slow motion coup.
When Judith Collins appeared on weekend political shows a couple of weeks ago I first noticed something was in the air.
I even commented in my review at the time that it was odd for her to suddenly pop her head up.
She looked like she was flexing her muscles, sending a clear message, she looked like she was re-entering the ring.
Then suddenly like a zombie horror extra, Slater is back.
I think what we are watching in real time is a very Kiwi coup.
John Key could look down the barrel of the camera and lie to our faces, but English can’t.
Middle NZ rewards convincing political liars & punishes incompetent ones.
Bill English is being destabilised in front of our eyes because someone has reaped a heavy political price from deep personal pain. Todd has been sacrificed and Bill destabilised right when a totally fabricated Labour student slave story suddenly erupts via a right wing political news blog.
Who has fed this information to the NewsRoom?
Slater’s mate and right wing political strategist Simon Lusk argues that by polluting the political debate you turn voters off and the minority power block wins.
The evidence for that was 2014.
Watch how nasty this now turns. Blood is in the water.
Start watching Judith Collins, she will be timing her strike for the Leadership once the latest worst parts of this story make the news.
Someone is drip feeding this.
A Judith Collins and Winston Peters Government would be horrific wouldn’t it?
If John Key and Steven Joyce publicly owned how the payout came from Keys slush fund it would diminish Bill English’s responsibility. This would not have been hidden without their complicity. With this seat being the one sent of the Nats majority. The staff involved were long term trusted staff of Bill’s in his electorate. I’ m sure he’d have wanted to hang the arrogant young there Todd Barclay out to dry..
Its likely a post election loss line up, Judith is really the only choice for leading Natz after the election, she has a popular electorate. Key’s coat tail riders will be turfed, blue seats mostly gone.
The spin about the tapes existence is moot, English rang Glenys to say there was one, nothing about content, notice that, she quit the next day.
The Nat Trolls on the defensive about this is hilarious.
Why is no one calling for Bill’s Police statement, and Natz should pay back ther hush money.
If John Key and Steven Joyce publicly owned how the payout came from Keys slush fund it would diminish Bill English’s responsibility. This would not have been hidden without their complicity. With this seat being the one sent of the Nats majority. The staff involved were long term trusted staff of Bill’s in his electorate. I’ m sure he’d have wanted to hang the arrogant young twerp
Todd Barclay out to dry..
Yep Martyn,
I would agree with your take on this alright.
How does SS Joyce fit in here???
He is the Nactional political strategist and must be inside the Revolting Collins/Slater/ Lask tent right?
Well Bill English, best you watch your back or maybe another John Key type takeover is in the wings now for sure!!!!!!!!
They did it to you pre 2008 and will sure do this again as Shipley did to the last hollow man PM we had under National then in 1996/7.
Is shapley in the Collins tent too????
Lots ahaed here folks from the kings of “Dirty politics”.
Unusually, on Sunday night, post National Conference. TV3 News chose an unflattering image of Bill English staggering away from another contradictory statement regarding the Todd Barclay scandal.
Also unusually tonight on TV3 The Project, Jesse Mulligan had more than his usual grin, when he listed all of the categories of unfortunate people that are excluded from the claim by Bill English to be working for ALL New Zealanders.
I think Collins is astute enough to suss that she would loose the election for the nats. Her ploy will be to let English ran with a better chance with the electorate and have her knife ready as soon as it’s won.
D J S
She is not astute enough to realize most New Zealanders can’t stand her butch,arrogant attitude. She’s not someone you’d invited around for tea the dog wouldn’t like the competition for the greasy bone.
Collins will pick up the pieces of the National Train Wreck which is gathering momentum as it heads towards the coming 2017 Election, there will be plenty of scandal over the next three months it could be more exciting than the Americas Cup.
Will Winston Peters finally have his day in the sun and see the National Party ground into the dirt evidently 800 people turned up to NZF’s campaign launch in Palmerston North on Sunday. Not bad for a small country town in NZ. Evidently a good proportion of the crowd were under 40 years of age ?
Nobody will care about dirty politics now they are all euphoric about the boat race and all black victories.
Yep this Americas Cup Win should secure another term for National NZ voters will be on a high until later in the year ?
Just the tonic Bill needed after the pressure of the Hot Toddy Affair ?
The police have re-opened the case. They will also investigate the pressure on Dickson by Glenda Hughes. The story will be in the headlines a little longer.
As I messaged Radio NZ this evening, Bert, I hope English is more upfront, honest, and has his story straight for the Police than he has been thus far with the New Zealand public.
Well said Frank. Having seen the protection goon squad of Parliaments Speaker today, they are working overtime to shut this story down. The P.M had the gall (and was allowed too by the Speaker)to respond to questions of him by attacking Little over the smokescreen of the volunteers recently recruited by Labour.
Which can only lead to one conclusion, Bullshit Bill is as guilty as sin.
Who’s running the sweep on the date for the takeover? I’d be wanting my $20 on two weeks post election
Andrew Little was ashamedly labelled “angry” by the nasty right wing. Well I have one now which is so 100 % true…
Bullshit Bill
Aaron Gilmore. Mike Sabin. Gerry Brownlie. John Key. Judith Collins. Alfred Ngaro. Nicky Wagner. Todd Barclay.
A wee sample of some pretty classy Nats, eh?! Yeah nah.
Bennett the Benefit Basher has an appalling persona,Nick Smith and Simon 10 Bridges just to add another to your list.
It seems odd that both Key and English have stated that their ministers “must not become arrogant”. I get the feeling that the “not” in that sentence, is silent.
I wondered when someone would pick up on this; given the media are owned by NAct, this latest attack on the right was never for the benefit of New Zealanders’ truth news story.
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