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Ryan Bridge: We've been reminded our present day politicians aren't up to much
It's hard listening to all the tributes for Jim Bolger and not feeling like we're being short-changed by our current crop of leaders.
A few short generations ago, this country was a different place.
Before the internet. Before the phones. Before the anxiety.
Before career politicians—those who go straight from school to university, into the student union, and then directly into politics.
Jim Bolger was in Parliament a long time. But he had a productive life before that. He left school at 15 and went straight into work. Hard work. Manual work. On the farm in Taranaki, and later in Te Kuiti…
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