tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post3170712467778936640..comments2024-03-29T11:07:51.893+13:00Comments on Bowalley Road: Ten Years Ago This Week: Bill Birch's Last BudgetChris Trotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-52168241305318883032009-05-23T20:25:07.911+12:002009-05-23T20:25:07.911+12:00Norman Kirk's secretary's book had a good piece in...Norman Kirk's secretary's book had a good piece in it about Muldoon. She reckoned that Kirk had been thunder struck by Muldoon's arrogance in the weeks before the 1972 election. Then it struck Big Norm. I want to be prime minister and if Gentleman Jack wins in 1972, he will lead the party into the 1975 election and by 1978 I will be too old. Undermine him now, then get in to have a go in 1975.<br />That stationary engine driver knew a thing or two, didn't he?<br />But do not forget another basic fact; that 1975 election was possibly the greatest turn around in N.Z. political history. Labour went from a huge majority to a huge minority in one fell swoop. Our terms of trade during the early part of the Kirk regime were stupendous. But that shiver looking for a spine to run up (M.P. for Tasman) washed it away. It makes him sound curously like Anne Batten's hop on.<br />Stephen J.L.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com