Pious, earnest Nikki Kaye retelling how “the most decent person she knows”, Todd Muller, along with her and Amy’s decision to roll Bridges was their moral obligation, is fascinating reading mainly for her enemies in the MSM and Labour. It was hardly going to send National’s polls soaring prior to election day.
To Amy’s credit there have been no explanatory interviews from her, and for that I praise her. Then again she (unlike Kaye) mentioned nothing about her treachery in her valedictory either. Her escapade barely seemed to have touched the sides. Amy simply skips along the surface of life leaving chaos in her wake.
I wonder how devoted a departing MP really is to their party’s future if they are prepared to spill the beans just prior to an election with heartfelt Tell Alls justifying (with feeling) why they are stepping down and leaving the party in the lurch.
And why did National’s Powers That Be not demand that they leave their media interviews until AFTER election day? Did political correctness prevent them from doing so? Or was it concern for the mental health of the participants involved in acts of treachery against the National Party?
For example, it would have been quite appropriate to do a deal with returning electorate MP, Todd Muller, to leave any talk of his emotionally wrenching experience with the eager media until AFTER the election day in return for the plum Trade portfolio.
This is called strategic thinking and ways to save a party from oblivion.
Instead, just when I thought Todd had done just that, we have the once aspiring leader putting himself up as the poster boy for Mental Health Awareness week. Nothing wrong with that! But two weeks before the election with National’s chances on a razor’s edge?
He put his leading part in the overthrowing of Bridges once more front and centre in the public’s mind. A piece of genius for Ardern’s propaganda machine, but another example of tone-deafness by a National MP.
We are currently being treated to another instalment in the ongoing saga of the “Perils of Sarah” on Newsroom. It is not that we don’t feel sympathy for what former National MP Sarah Dowie went through with ladies’ man JLR (not my cup of tea) but it’s just that Sarah seems to be a titch tone-deaf if she thinks a number of stories (with fetching photos) of her in a high-profile blog two weeks before election day would help National’s chances. Her previous instalment was up there for months, reminding the public of what National wants them most to forget.
After election day would have been much more appropriate. Just another example of tone-deaf narcissism.
The BFD. Amy Adams, Sarah Dowie, Todd Muller and Nikki Kaye should have kept their gobs shut.
Have we seen or heard one word from disgraced MP Ian Lees-Galloway since he stepped down? He seems to have vanished off the face of the earth, which will have been just what Ardern instructed him to do. Her motley crew may not be that clever but are street smart survivors.
And voila! We see the results today!
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