How much of a snowflake has Barry Soper turned out to be?
Barry Soper spent decades dishing it out. Now one 16-year-old grudge has made him look like the most fragile man in New Zealand media.
Guyon Espiner
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Observations on the 2017 Election campaign thus far… (ono)
The jaw-dropping, gob-smacking, forehead-slapping gall of Winston Peters! For him to demand clarity and full disclosure from others – when he himself has made a fetish of not disclosing to voters who he will coalesce with, post-election – takes the Hypocrisy-of-the-Year Award from National and plants it firmly on his own Italian suited jacket-lapel.
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Some background info for Guyon Espiner
Either Espiner has forgotten the lessons of history, grimly recounted to him by former Prime Minister Jim Bolger – or he wilfully chose to ignore the dire circumstances that Metiria Turei, and thousands of other New Zealanders, found themselves in at the time.