Quotation for Today, Monday 20 July

Peters may be “sorry” but I am not sure he has learned anything from last year’s debacle. In the email to his troops he says, using what appears to be a royal “we”, “We acknowledge that we made mistakes. In keeping our eyes on the big picture we failed to appreciate the importance of details”.

This begs the question, what was the “big picture” for NZ First? Staying in power with Labour? Holding a cabinet portfolio? For most voters it is impossible to sum up what NZ First stood for other than being a vehicle to keep Peters in politics once he had jumped out of Jim Bolger’s National Party.

Bill Ralston, in the HoS, on Winston Peters and his use of the ‘Sorry’ word. Bill appears somewhat sceptical as to whether Peters is in fact ‘Sorry’ at all.

Adam hates to say it, but Bill’s piece rather echoes this post by Adam, in tone.