Trevor Mallard's Brain Explosion (or is it?)

Now, I've been thinking about this one. The day after a damning report on the Beureaucracies managing Tertiary Education in this country comes out the Minister responsible comes out with the most outrageous comments about the National Party.

Now I've heard some rather strange claims - one of them from Phillipa Bunkle in 1999 that Richard Prebble was planning to sell the Town Belt as all he cared about was money. (Ironic, isn't it.)

But he's effectively changed the topic of the media slamming of him from his incompetent management of Teritary Education to slamming him for his less than creditable attack on National - the lesser of two evils? Perhaps he has been a little more clever than most people give him credit for.

Incidentally, Helen Clark is reportedly furious with Mallard - and it turns out the Billionaire Mallard was referring to is also a donor to the Labour Party. I see even Mike Williams The question I'm left wondering is - Has she lost control of her caucus and the Party President? Apparently Cullen and Clark are very angry with each other over the Budget, now Mallard is getting into the gutter. Clark cannot be happy with Mike Williams as she would be blaming him for building up expectations of tax cuts in the Budget.