So what is actually happening inside National? Will Judith knife Simon?
After another week of breathless mainstream media breaking gossip masquerading as news, Simon Bridges is still the leader and Judith Collins has not made her move.
So what is actually going on?
Talking with insiders, here’s how I see it.
1 – With so many leaks, it makes the claim that the only disloyal foot soldier was Jami-Lee Ross an obvious falsehood.
2 – There are three basic factions. Those who support Bridges, those who support Judith and those who support anyone but Judith.
3 – It is this third group who are leaking to the media in an attempt to push Judith into taking the poisoned chalice of leadership now believing her failure at the election would doom her longevity and allow them to replace her post 2020.
4 – Judith wants to move after the election to allow Bridges to lose the election and take a full 3 years to build her dark empire.
5 – The reason National Party power brokers don’t want Judith is out of a genuine concern of what she would do if she gained power. She scares the bejesus out of most of them.
Who wants the “worst job in the world”? No one in the national party, apart from Simon. Well maybe post 2020. Not now.
Election 2023 could look popcorn time.
The reason she scares the bejesus out of most of them is because she’s a scary woman – actually make that dangerous scary woman.
You think this country has problems now? Heaven help us all if she ever made it into power. The phrase “hell freezes over” comes to mind.
She always talks in those subversive, hushed tones. The same way the bad guy in a James Bond movie lowers his voice when he’s about to make a threat towards someone.
Rarely is she seen smiling. In most photos she’s scowling like an alley cat. When she is smiling, it’s because she’s hiding something, up to something or both. John Key grinned like the Cheshire Cat, she grins when she’s not telling the truth.
I saw her arrive twice at TV3 when I worked there. Chauffeur driven, ofc.
She got out, and sat down in the lobby with the most dirty foul look on her face I’d seen on anyone in a long time. I’ll never forget that. It could of been when she was stood down by John Key to be fair… it could have been a variety of reasons , but I don’t care… if your going to present your case before the nation you don’t come on looking like that.
It was the look of contempt and hostility.
We don’t want that sort of person as PM.
Ever.