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Jane Clifton: making plans for Colin

By Jane Clifton In Politics

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14th November, 2013
As Sherlock Holmes says, when you’ve eliminated the impossible, what remains, however improbable, has to be the answer. Which is why National is now contemplating life with the Conservative Party. Yes, it has come to that. Colin Craig, the man who has declared New Zealand women the most promiscuous in the world, may end up as an MMP kingmaker (rather than a queenmaker, for obvious reasons). The MMP maths for National have been impossible for a long time. To move from Sherlock’s wisdom to the White Queen’s nonsense, only by believing six impossible things before breakfast could the ...

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