Lindsay Perigo: Go Crush 'Em Crusher!

The best thing Judith Collins said during her first press conference as National Party leader came right at the end: "I think it might be time for a drink."

Here we had intimations at least that the prim, prissy, prudish neo-Puritanism, the Woke-Fascism unleashed on the nation by the Marxist Jacinda Ardern might have met its match.

Equally encouraging, Collins did not disavow her long-standing nick-name, "Crusher."

"I am hoping that the National Party will collectively crush the other lot come September 19," was all she had to say about that.