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Sunday column

Breakfast after breakfast, lunch after lunch, the National Party has been stepping up to the lectern to talk to big rooms of people that look like New Zealand, if by looks like New Zealand you mean an It’s In The Bag! audience in 1978.

Up they step, with two shiny messages.

The first is: This is the best little country in the world, and we’re all gunner b…