And then there were four
(WorldNews New Zealand)

OPINION: Mark Patterson woke up on Sunday morning knowing he was the single most likely of all four Southland MPs to wind up on the Government benches. It wasn`t a bad day to be Winston`s No 7. The more conspicuous and emphatic election-night victors, National`s electorate winners Hamish Walker (Clutha-Southland) and Sarah Dowie (Invercargill), are entitled to be optimistic about joining Patterson in government, rather than languishing in the parched wastelands of the Opposition. But only Winston-willing. The most likely scenario is that NZ First leader and once-again kingmaker Winston Peters will go into coalition - coalesce? - with National. If Peters instead lends his crucial support to a...