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Mike's Minute: I'm almost feeling sorry for Chris Hipkins

Published: June 21, 2023, 9:27 p.m.

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The whole Michael Wood story defies any logical explanation.

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It defied explanation when he got into trouble over the airport shares.

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It defied explanation when it was thought he got asked six times to get rid of them but didn\\u2019t.

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It defied explanation when it turned out to be 12 times

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The Prime Minister had the chance to lance the boil at the time but chose not to.

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Chris Hipkins has been let down in an astonishingly way by his own team members - I am almost starting to feel sorry for him.

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Given Woods finally fell on his sword yesterday after yet more share revelations; how is it possible they got themselves into that big a hole?

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Just what sort of mess, what sort of shambolic buffoon do you need to be to have dug yourself into the sort of chaos Wood seems to have? \\xa0

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And why has it been allowed to stretch out for so long?

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The Wevers report into the airport business is presumably now pointless.

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But between Jan Tinetti and her misleading the house and her refusal to correct it as quickly as she could.

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Between Meka Whaitiri having such an issue with Hipkins she bolted from the party.

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Wood, versions 1 and 2, now gone as minister - that alone by the way is a nightmare Hipkins doesn\\u2019t need because he literally has an empty cupboard of talent - given the promotions of Ginny Andersen and Tinetti have proved problematic to say the least - hence he has spread the Wood portfolios to already busy ministers he can presumably trust.

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The one \'go to\' guy - i.e. Hipkins now has no one new to go to.

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And let\'s not forget the Nash saga which has an eerily similar vibe to the Wood mess.

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You thought you had it contained; we had the warnings, then boom, another explosion.

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How many careers are going to end in tatters before the Government limps to the October 14 vote and presumably gets put out of its misery?

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No one will be sad to see Michael Wood go.

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Between the cycle bridge, the light rail, the obsession with buses all of which have turned out to be nothing but a nightmare and a lot of hot air his contribution in the end was way more negative than it was positive.

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He becomes a footnote of a government that imploded without even completing two terms.

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It\'s turning out to be quite the shambles.

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