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Brian Tamaki is in merger talks with Winston Peters. Is this a Duco Events fixture or, given that the two share dominance of a particular rump of voterdom, a matter for the Commerce Commission?

It’s highly unlikely these two titans of barely viable electoral kingdoms will ever share a throne, let alone become major political players in the eyes of more than a small percentage of voters.

A canny promoter could clean up selling tickets for their negotiations, particularly if the self-appointed “sheriffs” among Tamaki’s followers attempted to reeducate lawyer Peters about the “real” nature of jurisprudence in this country.

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