As I DIDN'T Suggest When Beginning Blogposting Some (Almost) 10 Years Ago (Two Months Time), Louisa Walls Redeemed Herself In Spades...& Goes Down As ONE CLASSY POLITICIAN (If the Phrase Itself Ain't One Gigantic Oxymoron): In Some Respects the Diametrical Opposite of Simon Bridges, M.P. - Though, Like Him, Generally Carrying/Conducting Herself With Due Aplomb - She Stood for All Those ('Moral') Things I Deeply Oppose, Yet Was Ever & Always a Conviction Politician (Another Contradiction-in-Terms) Rather Than a Pragmatist...And the NZ Labour Party Will Be the Loser for Her Going, Though Evidently They Could Care Less...

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Admittedly, like myself, not much of a 'team player' - itself rather odd considering she led the *Black Caps/Silver Ferns in times gone by... 

*Admittedly thereby showing up my utter lack of sporting knowledge...

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