Originally Posted by
Logen Ninefingers
Michael Woodhouse is 'mean & nasty'(?) Sticks and stones!?!
Agree that Goodfellow should go - and Collins must go. ACT now on 15% and steadily gaining on National. Politics is a bit like religion: when you have a small following you are labelled as a cult and derided, once you pass a certain threshold of numbers you get the respect of the masses and graduate to becoming a 'religion'. National have to be careful that ACT don't take over their mantle as the true 'religion' or main party of the Right. They must do something soon & ignore any ditherers that suggest otherwise. Every day that they delay the problem confronting them gets worse. When you leader and party shenangighans start to be viewed as a farce, then the situation becomes very dire indeed. Collins may appeal to aged Muldoonists but she doesn't appeal to anyone else in modern NZ society - it's not the 80's. David Seymour - for all his personal quirks - is an effective politician who lands blows and gets things done. Collins is so scattershot that she lands as many blows on herself and her colleagues as she does on the government.