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<i>John Armstrong:</i> Clock is ticking for Hide's leadership and Act's future
The highly damaging revelations in Heather Roy's 82-page statement of defence raise serious questions about Rodney Hide remaining as leader.
The highly damaging revelations in Heather Roy's 82-page statement of defence raise serious questions about Rodney Hide remaining as leader.
Not a skerrick of the notion of accountability - on which Act bases its sales pitch - was apparent this afternoon, writes John Armstrong.
John Armstrong writes that the working group's prescription for change may be blinkered by ideology such as time limits.
Better an utter, total if humiliating backdown than a messy compromise that keeps the mining issue alive into election year.
Will someone in authority please do something this time so we don't get yet another episode like the one outside the Beehive last Friday.
Political commentator John Armstrong says nothing happening in politics this week had a hope of upstaging the fall and fall of Chris Carter.
When your leader sends you home and tells you to consider your political future, you should assume you probably haven't got one.
For its own sake - if for no other reason - Labour must demote Shane Jones. Moreover, Labour knows it must.
Yesterday's Budget was the first salvo of the 2011 election. It was all about shutting Labour out of next year's contest.
Politically safe, yet economically timid and fiscally vulnerable - that's the initial verdict on Bill English's second Budget.