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Heather du Plessis-Allan: Stuart Nash had become a walking liability for Labour anyway

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That didn’t take long. Six and a half hours, and Stuart Nash was gone. Just after half past 7, he went on Newstalk ZB and boasted about calling the police commissioner about a guy who got home D for illegal weapons and whether there would be an appeal. By 2pm, he’d resigned. Well, that’s the story anyway.   I suspect he might’ve been fired. He was still defending himself mid-morning, which says to me he needed someone else to point out how untenable his position was.  He needed to go. Not only because what he did was this morning was absolutely a sackable offence, but also because Nash has become a low level walking liability for Labour in the last few weeks. I don’t know what’s going on with him, but he’s been making a lot of mistakes in the last few weeks, especially since the cyclone. He's done some weird stuff. He took umbrage at the warning that power might be out for two weeks after the cyclone, he said it was alarmist and over the top based on who knows what, because some people are without power and i