Why labour isn’t behind the limo leak.
Labour may hold on to the defunct dream of socialism solving the world’s problems but surely they are not entirely stupid ?
There is no reason Labour had any advantage in leaking Simon Bridges crown car expenses days before they were due to be made public.
Labour already knows that Bridges is failing to make headway with internal polling, he’s failing to resonate with the National faithful, perhaps it’s the failings of the past 9 yrs that’s clinging to Simon like a bad stench, unfortunately for him he doesn’t represent a fresh start National desperately needs.
With Bridges loosing the role of opposition leader it can only give way to a handful of likely contenders.
National are up against the media darling that is Jacinda Ardern, she also holds a not so secret weapon ‘baby neve’ whom she’s able to roll out when the pressure comes on…
“Look, it’s a baby” scream the woman’s day weekly readers.
“Go easy on our Jacinda, she’s just had a baby” bleet the labour pacifists.
“I’d like to see you push out a human, breast feed it and run a country at the same time” roar the feminists.
Let’s face it, Simon is on a hiding to nothing.
It suits labour in the polls to have a wishy washy indecisive opposition leader who lacks the backbone to take on the accidental government armed with a baby Neve.
It raises the question, who then amongst National would be labour’s most formediable opponent ?
I ran a twitter poll to determine amongst right wing voters who would be the most effective female leader within Nationals ranks.
Overwhelmingly the most effective female National MP was Judith Collins (aka the crusher).
A secondary poll revealed who would then be the most effective opposition leader between Simon Bridges or Judith Collins with a clear majority in favour of Judith.
Admittedly these are small sample sizes but it does offer a critical insight and confirms what most already know, that in order for National to be effective at combatting this current government they are going to need a strong woman at the helm, a leader not afraid to call out the bull sh*t virtue signalling that labour constantly projects.
Labour knows this also, the last person they would want as opposition leader is Judith ‘Crusher’ Collins, therefore they’d have to be incredibly stupid to have leaked limo expenses.
Or maybe Labour are just incredibly stupid.