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Northland by-election: how not to do it

Since when has a political leader deliberately, repeatedly, used the slogan of an opponent during an election campaign?

Rob Hosking
Tue, 10 Mar 2015

To hear more from Rob Hosking on the Northland By-Election, tune into Last Call from 4pm on NBR Radio

One of the most important if unacknowledged rules of politics is don’t insult people’s intelligence.

People are not fools. They expect a certain degree of laxity of principle among their

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Rob Hosking
Tue, 10 Mar 2015
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