Hooton calls for Brash to go
Posted on Sunday, May 14, 2006 at 9:00 PM | Permalink
In his latest Sunday Star Times column Matthew Hooton has written that Don Brash has achieved his goal of rescuing the National Party, and it is now time to stand aside.
National's poll-rating is 42%, New Zealand is blessed with the most talented alternative government in its history and the financial position of the party vis-à-vis Labour is outstanding...
But Brash is now an impediment to National achieving the next 5-10% of the vote it needs to dislodge the increasingly corrupt Labour regime...
By the end of last year's election campaign, he had communicated to Maori, solo mums, homosexuals, immigrants and people planning to vote Labour that he did not see them as "mainstream New Zealanders" - yet the latter group defines who National needs to win power.
National has restored is "core" support which went awol at the 2002 election and reaffirmed what it stands for. All that is left is for National to reach out across the centre ground to attract soft Labour and United Future voters.
National's poll-rating is 42%, New Zealand is blessed with the most talented alternative government in its history and the financial position of the party vis-à-vis Labour is outstanding...
But Brash is now an impediment to National achieving the next 5-10% of the vote it needs to dislodge the increasingly corrupt Labour regime...
By the end of last year's election campaign, he had communicated to Maori, solo mums, homosexuals, immigrants and people planning to vote Labour that he did not see them as "mainstream New Zealanders" - yet the latter group defines who National needs to win power.
National has restored is "core" support which went awol at the 2002 election and reaffirmed what it stands for. All that is left is for National to reach out across the centre ground to attract soft Labour and United Future voters.
