Thursday, 03 December 2015 12:34

Ego-mania

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A mate of yours truly reckons that those past-their-use-by-date has-beens Winston Peters and John McCarthy have been teaming up together in opposing the Silver Fern Farms/Shanghai Maling deal.

The Hound's confidante says their double act was confirmed when McCarthy recently issued a media release – under the guise of MIE – backing everything the frequently absent MP for Northland has outlandishly claimed (under parliamentary privilege) about the SFF merger deal. But this mate also reckons the chances of McCarthy and Peters ever formally teaming up is zero – each of their egos is so big they couldn't fit in the same room at the same time.

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