OPINION: “They should get in behind me.”

That was Judith Collins’ message to her colleagues when she ran for the National Party leadership.

Perhaps they should have listened.

Collins seems to be getting more airtime, more name recognition and landing more hits on her opponents than the man who actually won that leadership contest, Simon Bridges.

Bridges is travelling round the country on his getting-to-know-me tour, with “Hoi oim Soimon Brudges” echoing through town halls across the country.

Today it was Gore and Invercargill… Palmerston North and Paraparaumu prepare yourselves.

Meanwhile Collins doesn’t need to leave her electorate or the Wellington beltway – her mug is all over the news and riddled through the papers.

She seems to be…