The rumour mill is now leaning towards a National Party leadership spill.
Much plotting was done at Jim Bolger’s recent funeral which is ironic.
The phone calls are happening and the numbers are being taken.
The National Party factions realise 3 things.
1 – It has to be Luxon and Nicola Willis who go because it is Nicola’s insane economic direction that is killing them and Luxon’s wooden performance that its drowning them.
2 – It can’t be Erica because the National Party Mandarins know that we know.
3 – The compromise line up is Bishop as Finance with Louise Upston as leader.
The drive is to go back to Jim Bolger’s decent society rather than Luxon’s dead eyed KPI CEO speak and Nicola Willis’ free market cruelty.
With National now pushing a policy as overwhelmingly unpopular as Asset sales, all Labour need to do is appear half rational.
If there is a move in National, it will happen over the Summer, there is no way they would try it any later than March because they know that would just look like a desperate scramble.
They would want at least 10 months as a lead in for the new Leadership to rebrand National before an election.
Beyond March, Luxon and Willis will be cemented in.
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