JANE CLIFTON: Backed up in the covid pipe

JANE CLIFTON: Backed up in the covid pipe
Jane Clifton
And they say politics is a sewer.As though times were not already quite strange enough, this week brought an invitation from Science Minister Megan Woods to the deputy Opposition leader Gerry Brownlee to join her on a mission to inspect an Auckland sewerage pipe for signs of covid-19.“At his earliest convenience,” she added, pun apparently not intended.  Brownlee accepted with his friendliest scowl and urged her to name the day.  He wasn’t being arch. Having failed to win new votes by blackguarding the government&rsq...

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