Calling Team Aotearoa
If only the great Ghosts of Politics Past could tap living leaders on the shoulder before they make charlies of themselves. Britain’s former prime minister Harold Macmillan would have loomed behind Simon Bridges with four pithy words before he so joyfully announced the National Party’s “bonfire of regulations”.
“Events, dear boy, events,” Macmillan once replied, when asked what could blow successful governments off course. The events that stand to blow our Government off course are not niggly rules constraining hairdressers and scaffolders or even the whole infuriating canon of “PC gone mad!”
Coronavirus and the impending global financial slump might,
