Martyn Bradbury

Bill English has attempted to hide his involvement, hide his knowledge of what he knew, and hide when he knew it throughout this Barclay fiasco.

My conclusion 2 months out is that everything has changed for this election. Jacinda’s performance today was super nova, the Greens have won their mojo and for the first time in a very long time I am genuinely hopeful we could see something unique here, not just an accidental win or a calculated math trick – we could have a progressive political vision sold with passion.

Look, folks, I don’t want to sound critical – lordy no not I, but isn’t the obviousness of what’s behind dumping the Decile system really, really, really scary and could lead to such extreme surveillance of the individual that the Decile system is preferable because it won’t damage the vulnerable kids it’s aimed at?

What’s that weird, totally unfamiliar feeling I’m feeling watching Jacinda Ardern take over Labour?

Hope.

Jacinda is a product of her generation, and because most of the pundits are older than her, they judge her by their own generations combativeness and cynicism.

Which is why they don’t get her.

Matthew Hooton and Patrick Gower have had their pay day with destabilising the leader of Labour once again and Andrew Little has stepped down.

Andrew Little is a good man and would have made an incredibly decent Prime Minister, I believe he has been let down by his advisers and communications team and that once he lost Matt as his backroom head kicker, he was open to undermining by the factions. 

The King looks like he’s dead, long live the Queen?

…we have a suicide rate that may be 3 times higher than officials acknowledge, we have a suicide rate that continues to spike, we have a mental health service that is so underfunded that it is functionally broken and we have a Government who have only this month admitted Government policy has failed.

Whatever the outcome, it needs to be forced or seized in the next 24 hours. 3 damaging polls in a  row demands action or it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. The truth is that National are sinking and running out of political allies. Labour-Green-NZ First could still be the next Government. 

Andrew Little has 24 hours to find his mojo. Clean sweep his advisors and bring in an aggressive new team to ram home that there can be no change of Government without Labour, or fall on his sword.