Don has resigned. I feel immensely sad and disappointed. It is one more nail in the coffin of politics for me.
Update; Gerry Brownlee is supporting John Key. Is Key a foregone conclusion?
My feeling is he will make National indistinguishable from Labour but capture the public imagination and take National to victory anyway. Then we will have another innings of National largely supporting the status quo. As they have, in general, always done. Labour govts have always been the doers.
Barry Soper has just described Don Brash as a most "unconventional politician" and not suited to "this place". Parliament=conformity? National=conformity.
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Disgusting how he was hounded by the vicious campaign of Labour, the betrayal of power hungry, unprincipled individuals like Keys. Truly disgusting. He was a man far better than the better he led. He was the one reason so many voters went back to National but no doubt idiots like Keys think they can keep the support. They can't. National will become just a mild Labour Party. Absolutely disgusting.
Vicious campaign by Labour? WTF, if there was a campaign against him it was all his own making... spin, spin, spin. Brash is gone 'cause he was not nearly up to it.
Brash had one attribute not seen in the Labour Caucus in the last 7 years.
Honesty!!!!!
backin15 in woefully uninformed. Even the press reported that that Labour was spreading the smear about Brash. Labour Ministers, with the smiling Clark listening in, were calling out remarks about the alleged affair. Press people admitted that Labour officials were trolling the press gallery trying to get reporters interested in the gossip. And then when it backfired Clark suddenly came out attacking it claiming she had no idea it was being done. So there is no "if there was a campaign" there was a campaign. From where you head is at I assume you have no need for a proctologist.
You must be kidding. At the very point in time he was lecturing Helen Clark about her marriage, his actions were risking his own. He was less than honest about the Exclusive Brethren and also about his comments to US delegates about ANZUS. He also publicly stated that misleading the public might be the best thing to do.
The emails were leaked by someone very close to Brash, many know precisely who. Brash is gone because, try as he might he couldn't manage his personal life or the requirements of leadership.
He might be a very nice bloke, he's certainly bright and determined but his inexperience and his lack of discipline cost him his leadership. Blaming Labour is delusional. But don't let that stop your crocodile tears.
Didn't DB say HC was, "Indifferent to the institution of marraige" before the CU bill was passed?
gloria, you're quite wrong about the timing as David points out - National have been on at Clark most of her parliamentary career about her marriage and/or her sexuality.
As to who benefited, that'd be Key and English wouldn't it?
I think you might be on the wrong side of the looking glass.
I'm happy for any and all to despair Brash's demise but I'm clear that he bought most of it on himself.
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