Andrew Dickens Afternoons

So after the Faafoi fiasco the question is who were the winners and who were the losers.To my mind, the biggest loser was the celebrity who leaked his own pleading texts while the big winner is Simon Bridges. There’s been a lot of chatter that Kris Faafoi should resign because he broke the Cabinet Manual and intervened in an immigration case for a celebrity friend.  The only problem with that is that he didn’t.At that is self evident in a number of ways.  Firstly, the celebrity’s step dad is still fighting immigration for a visa. If there was an intervention, it failed. There’s no proof of an actual intervention.  All there is are some texts.Secondly, the fact that the leaker of the texts was the celebrity himself.  Now he didn’t do it for the good of New Zealand democracy as a whole.  He did it out of anger that his pleas for some help in his family’s immigration case had gone unheeded.Faafoi was guilty of something we all do.  Not saying no but saying maybe.  “We should work together on a project in the fut