Just nonsense

The Spinoff reported:

Winston Peters has repeated his claim that Bill English said he was about to be rolled as National leader during negotiations after the 2017 election.

According to the New Zealand First leader, English said during post-election negotiations that he was about to lose his position as leader of National. It’s part of the reason, claimed Peters, that he decided to go with Labour. Ultimately, English resigned as National leader the following year.

Peters has made the claims before but said them recently during the Newshub multi-party debate. “You don’t understand how critical it was because I was talking to a man who in his first conversation with me says they are about to roll me,” Peters said during the debate.

He refloated the claims today during an interview on RNZ’s Morning Report, saying Bill English had told him, “[Judith] says she’s got the numbers, but she hasn’t.”

Speaking to Newsroom last week, English denied ever making such remarks to Peters. “It’s a ridiculous claim… a fabrication.”

It is total nonsense. It has zero credibility.

This should ring warning bells. What is to stop Winston pulling out similar nonsense this election and if he gets in, supporting Labour back into Government on the basis of a fictitious conversation.