My insanely sunny personality say "no, Terry has been despised by many in Wellington for years and it hasn't hurt him much". My paranoid personality says: "what if the public turns against the Nix because they associate us with Terry's dodginess? Then we'll never turn a profit and therefore never attract a better owner/funder".
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Exactly. This is essentially the argument in a nutshell.
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"I am still feeling very, very, very confident about that [loan]. It is still very live,"
Oh dear. I'm really starting to feel sorry for Terry now. The more verys he adds, the sillier he looks.