From an interview with the Sunday Star Times,Brash says while he was largely happy with National's policy platform in 2005, seeing it as a necessary compromise, he wonders whether he might have gained more votes campaigning as a conviction politician.
We will never know. But it's not too late to have another go Don. All you need is people around you who share the convictions you hold about what is needed to turn this country around.
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Brash was doomed with his leadership style.
Seeing the other person's point of view is seen as the first sign of weak leadership.
Brash was doomed with his leadership style.
Brash was fighting an uphill battle against a Maorimandered electoral system, and then cynically destroyed by corrupt policies and corrupt campaigning.
Factor those two out, and National would have a governing majority in 2005, would be going for a second term, and the country's economy would not be in the mess that it is is no!
Brash should step into the ring again with ACT and give up on the National Party which has no convinction it isn't willing to betray. His own party was against him. Brash was doomed because he was a liberal trying to lead a conservative party.
I did blog ages ago that he should join ACT and stand. That would make a quantum difference to ACT's vote percentage this time. How could the Nats resist him in Cabinet either?
However he is too much of a gentleman to be soiled by politics again.
However he is too much of a gentleman to be soiled by politics again.
Yes - especially fighting someone who resides in the gutter. NZ just do not know how much they lost by not electing him.
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