WAITING

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"Trust me."

Christopher Luxon continues in his delusional belief that he's a great negotiator and is doing things in the coalition talks that no NZ prime minister has done before.

" We’ve achieved, I think, a significant milestone overnight and that is that we have actually closed down and agreed policy programmes with both Act and also with New Zealand First. That’s a major achievement.”  said Luxon.

"He may have had “too many weet-bix”. said Seymour.

 “I’ll tell you later.” said Peters

"Tell him he's dreaming." said  Darryl Kerrigan.

Oh, sorry. That last comment came from the film The Castle. 

Meanwhile Nicola Willis is stewing on being kept on the sidelines.

"There have been compromises on all sides of the coalition negotiations and trade-offs have been made.
We are making compromises but we’re doing that in a way that we think is consistent with the broad mandate we’ve been given by New Zealanders and by and large, the people we’re negotiating with are being reasonable about that. They understand that no one will thank them if they’re seen to hold the country to ransom with less than 10 per cent of the vote. No one wants the tail wagging the dog. No one wants a situation where a smaller party is dictating the direction of the country or the way it’s governed."

Said Willis but I think that 'she doth protest too much'. She wants the Finance Minister position if not the deputy PM position as well but probably will settle to bide her time until a probable new election next year.

Waiting. Waiting.