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Truce or dare

It’s officially official: David Seymour is Jesus. He must be. The Act leader is now formally working with NZ First captain Winston Peters, something Seymour said back in July he couldn’t do because “I am not Jesus”. Ipso facto, he is now Jesus, though we all know Seymour’s not the messiah, just a very naughty boy.

If Seymour was Jesus, what would that make Peters? Pontius Pilate, perhaps? Watch your back, Jesus. Nah. She’ll be right. Jesus and Pilate have apparently forgotten about all their past mud-slinging, so I suppose we will have to, too.

And so has our new Prime Minister, Christopher Luxon, who in the dark ages before the election said of Peters: “I don’t know

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