From his headline this morning, Matt McCarten seems to be conceding victory to National - what else could you make of "Nats hit a few speed bumps on the long road to victory"? But of course, this is Matt McCarten we're talking about!
He opines that National has had the week from hell, while Labour has had a dream run. If his week lasted from Sunday night to Tuesday night, he'd have a point. But once the second and third "National has a secret agenda" tapes were leaked courtesy of 3News, I reckon that the tide turned. As John Armstrong noted yesterday, National is angry, and that might be the last thing that Helen Clark needs when the House resumes in a fortnight.
Oh, and does anyone know what's happened to Helen Clark's "legacy" ETS legislation?
2 comments:
iced the disconnect between what Matt said and the headline. You can't blame that on Matt. It's the subbie's fault.
Matt did make some good points, though. What do you think of his line that after the election, Peters “will remember National was trying to shaft him. If NZ First is returned, I’d put money on him going with Clark”?
JP - I don't think there's any chance now that Peters will go with National, IF he gets over the threshhold (and it's a big if!). I heard Richard Griffin on ZB out of Welly yesterday talking about the "close personal relationship" that Clark and Peters enjoy. Quite frankly, I would like to see Key come out publicly and say that he has no interest in any deals with NZ First as long as Peters is the leader.
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