Bill Ralston: Early days but it’s all good – They did it. They have passed 100 days in power. Woo-hoo. Only 900 or more to go now before they face another election. Being in government is a marathon not a sprint but there is no doubt National has had a dream start. Well,… [NZ Herald Politics]
Bill Ralston reviews the first 100 days and some cabinet personalities. The best comments are about Judith “Crusher” Collins and Paula Bennett.
Police and Corrections Minister Judith “Crusher” Collins is a perfect fit for her portfolios, whether giving her slack prison boss a Liverpool kiss or pulverising the cars of boy racers, she makes Act’s David Garrett look like a liberal limp-wristed pantywaist.
Education Minister Anne Tolley earned the undying loyalty of a future generation of voters by letting the evil pie and sausage roll sneak back into tuckshops across the nation.
The other tough sheila at the cabinet table, Paula Bennett, may have copped the sneers of the chardonnay set for her Westie ways and raising a family that sounds increasingly like the cast of Outrageous Fortune but the electorate only seem to have embraced her for it.
