Damien Grant: The grand solution Wayne Brown believes has New Zealand’s best interests at heart

“They are all mad Damien,” His Worship the Mayor advised me. I wasn’t certain to who Wayne Brown was referring. We were at his victory party so I assumed he was being dismissive of his supporters but I’d misunderstood. Brown’s irritation was at the wider political class. “Idiots. Most of them.”

There are, Brown believes, sensible, competent and moderate people in both major parties. There are also, he has observed, individuals of less outstanding calibre in the minor parties.