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Kate Hawkesby: I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at this point for the Labour Party
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at this point for the Labour Party and Chris Hipkins. I mean the state of it.
It really is from the sublime to the ridiculous. Who's left?
Who around that Cabinet table is capable enough to seriously manage all the portfolios of the other ministers who are dropping like flies? It’s a shambles.
But is it all a shambles of their own making? Have they played a bit fast and loose with the rules, been a bit slow to react, a bit slow to follow up on anything, a bit cavalier about the importance of being beyond reproach?
Is it arrogance? Is it incompetence?
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