In the gutter
Colin James correctly notes that Don Brash is playing games in pretending to be offended by Labour’s attacks on his positions with respect Iraq and nuclear-free legislation. He writes:
Don Brash feigns anger (or maybe is actually angry) at being misrepresented when his Iraq and nuclear policy words are quoted out of context. With hand on Presbyterian heart, he declares his billboards just point up differences with Labour.
Well, test him on his “pen-pushers” v “patients” billboard. The “difference” stated there is that Labour ministers care only for bureaucrats while Nightingale National cares deeply for patients.
Misrepresentative? Yes. So are the rest. The “iwi/Kiwi” one is divisive to boot.
So Brash could have no other expectation of Labour than that at some point it would misrepresent him. Get in the gutter and you get splashed with muddy water.
Quite.
