The first wobbles

My latest Dispatch from St Johhnysburg for NBR is titled “The first wobbles”. An extract:

This week we have seen the first wobbles in the National-led Government’s stability. They are not big wobbles, but they are wobbles. And like all wobbles – they can go only one or two ways – grow into bigger wobbles until something falls off, or subside away. …

The concern is that an e-mail that was between MPs only was leaked to the media. That is a sign of a lack of discipline, and the public (and the polls) have a history of turning on parties than are undisciplined and fight in public.

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