Bill English Leadership Failure

All politicians talk, and the latest is a good example. of when you get onto a story and you know I've been involved in so many stories when it relates to people being rolled in politics and Bill English was one that springs to mind because old Paul Holmes was doing the job you were doing and I'd done the numbers and knew that his time was up and done the numbers when I say I went through the whole caucus and knew how many he had. The problem with leadership is that anybody that's questioned by the leaders says, yes, of course I'll support you, because they know that down the road they may not get the promotion they want. Now Holmes said to me at the end of the interview, he said, Baz, is this man a dead man walking? And I said, Holmes, he more like a twitching corpse. Within five minutes the phone went and the invective flowed from Bill English and Bill said, I've got the numbers you'll see. And I said, no, you haven't. Now you haven't, Bill. You'll see. See you by lunchtime. And of course he was gone.