the Nats need to throw Winnie a bone .. Minister Foreign Affairs? ... couldn't be any worse than Mahuta !!!
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It's a joke, not serious, a light-hearted humorous dig at Balance who frequently refers to his 'Labour insider' sharing supposedly confidential stuff with him which he then shares on here.
Sorry if you missed that, its not something I would ever seriously say & expect most here would have recognised it's just my sense of humour.
Anyway NZ is such a small place, by the time you get to a certain age, many of us would know people in senior positions in the Public Service, politics, business etc & even if they shared confidential information which is doubtful, would be too discrete to repeat it on a public forum.
Hmm - not sure, at least Mahuta didn't suffer from dementia .. or was Winnie's recent doubling down on his lies just a natural reaction of his populist ego - Trumpesk, so to speak and relying on alternative realities?
Whatever it is - National better keep him out of the governments business if they want to survive their first term.
Maybe they can make him Minister out of cabinet of greyhound racing, this would suit his character. But even that please only AFTER they make greyhound races illlegal :) ;
Bet Luxon is thinking it may be a good idea to get Winston out of the country as much as possible, (was that what Ardern was thinking?) then again there might be a few in the queue ahead of him for Foreign Affairs(Brownlee ?)
Consumer Affairs would be a good fit for NZF & perhaps Shane Jones, giving NZF visibility on key campaign planks like investigations into excessive profits of banks & supermarkets.
NZF likes to be seen as the giant slayer taking the country back for the little guy.
Luxon's going to have to find senior Ministerial roles for both NZF & ACT.
Wonder how the chemistry is going between Luxon & Winston, as we know Winston's conviviality revolves around late nights with a few good whisky's & Luxon doesn't drink.
But wouldn't Shane need a job where he can splash a big discretionary fund (like the regional growth fund) across NZF's perceived clientele? Not that I would expect it helps NZF this time more than it did last time, but clearly - the tax payers billion dollar lolly scramble will need to be restarted - this is the price for involving NZF in any government!
Shane "handy" Jones only got the PGF because ardern was so useless, incompetent and desperate.