Like all good tea parties, everyone's turned mad. John Key lost his sense of humour and called the cops. DPS guards lost their job description. Party strategists lost control of events. John Banks lost his memory. TVNZ lost their nose for news, and TV3 maximised the story. And the public lost their quench for a strong brew of economic policy, choosing a milky cup of scandal from the menu instead.
Meanwhile, at the Act Party campaign launch last Sunday, we wondered if they'd decriminalised cannabis already. There were party poppers, a bubble-maker, streamers and a stilt walker. Had the Act Party morphed into Wrigley Bros Circus?
Don Brash is acting like a clown. He knows nothing and he's not afraid to say it. Brash rolled Rodney Hide but he's clueless to a coup that's plainly on the rise. Banksie is sticking to the line (when he can remember it) that he supports his leader, but at TVNZ's minor parties debate, Brash forgot who that was. Doh! Insiders say a media strategist is being paid $10k a week to babysit Brash to make sure he doesn't say anything silly. If true, Act should ask for their money back.
Rumours persist that certain rich-listers parked at the Business Roundtable are prepared to donate big cheques to the party if Catherine Isaac puts her pumps behind the Act leader's desk. If true, will the recent widow of the late Roundtable director find Act's voice or continue to genuflect subserviently in front of National, making it, as Lindsay Perigo has dubbed it, the NACT Party?
