It appears Broome’s consistent brown-nosing of Peters and carrying his man-bag while in opposition didn’t mean much when it came to Government: he was dumped quicker than one of NZ First’s election bottom lines. There’s not too much sympathy for Broome with much of the parliamentary media pack unhappy with his behaviour during the coalition negotiations – by instructing parliamentary security to cut off media access to the new deputy PM during the talks. Meanwhile, your old mate hears that the chance of Broome getting back with the Feds is less than zero: a number of insiders say the best thing that happened to the farming lobby was when he left to go work for Winny. Ouch!
