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John Armstrong: Time for Hide to walk the plank
The political graffiti are now writ large on the wall for Rodney Hide's leadership of Act after the apparent Easter rising within the party. Hide has to go.
The political graffiti are now writ large on the wall for Rodney Hide's leadership of Act after the apparent Easter rising within the party. Hide has to go.
Hesitation is death in Parliament. And - for once - John Key was lost for words.
Phil Goff's assertion that he has emerged from the Darren Hughes crisis with his grip on the Labour leadership having been strengthened has an element of truth.
Is this the same Phil Goff who last year snuffed out Chris Carter's hopelessly quixotic mutiny with such consummate ease?
Now we know what "BMW" really stands for - Beehive Money Wasters.
National's outright copying of some Labour policy is as brazen as it gets when it comes to gazumping your opponent.
When it comes to the nuts and bolts of lifting household savings, the saving group comes over all timid and tentative.
So much for stimulating public debate on NZ's hopelessly inadequate savings rate. The rather timid report produced by Bill English's savings working group has put paid to that.