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Article: Nats' brat pack more like a slack pack
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- Sunday Star-Times
- Article date:
- August 11, 2002
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I READ with interest Ruth Laugesen's article on the woes of
National's 2002 election campaign (August 4). The Nat's so-called
"brat pack", we were told, had a big part in the running of the
disastrous campaign.
Who bestowed the Americanism "brat pack" on this group? I suspect
they claimed it for themselves. Americans define "brat pack" as "a
selection of successful young hopefuls". Hang on. These guys are a
bunch of middle-aged males and all losers, having now gone down two
elections in a row.
The senior one of the "pack", deputy party leader, Roger Sowry, it
seems is unelectable, beaten for the third successive time in an
electorate contest, and this time well and truly cleaned out by an ...