Our polling always showed Brash as more unpopular than Hide. His negatives rub off on National as well. But can’t put it much better than No Minister. Pretty sure that Bill English will be saying ” I told you so” to Steven Joyce who was the referee for the Simon Lusk brains trust who initiated this mess.
Dr Brash marched into the ACT party board room and knocked them all for six with what now appears to be fictitious polling figures showing his personal following to be such that he would save the Party from itself and its heinous leader Rodney Hide. All they had to do was sack Rodney and install Don for the hallowed gates of Fiscal Policy to be thrown wide by an ever grateful John Key.
Boy oh boy, were they ever sold a pup! Perhaps the greatest political and tactical mess since Hitler invaded Soviet Russia.
