Richardson is a right wing fanatic, so will hardly be an intelligent debater. But put Richardson in a large group and he will be a mass debater.

I prefer Morning Report on RNZ. It’s for grown-ups.

They must be appealing to someone Dave they are higher in the polls and Bill knows it as his party has been polling just look at Bills face now covered in wrinkles power comes at a cost and ageing appears to be one of the costs.

Garner is a bit of a populist talker for a media person, he likes to talk and write about stuff, that he thinks people care about.

Labour under Little is in his view at best mediocre, so when Andrew Little dares to make such comments about reducing immigration, this must surprise Garner, as he would not expect Little and Labour to take such a clear position.

Little on the other hand sees a strong need to show that a Labour led government would go further than the present government, in limiting immigration. Hence Little’s comments on that show.

Immigration is one top policy matter that will decide the election. Many New Zealanders, especially in Auckland, are getting tired of the high number of new immigrants, that put enormous stress on infrastructure, including housing, and government services.

Also does immigration keep wages down, and with the now high inflation of about 2.2 percent per annum, living costs rise faster than people’s incomes, this will really concern voters.

Watching also the six o’ clock news, I saw Paddy Gower talk about Little’s comments, and “cut, cut, cut” was the slogan. So Labour is in danger of being portrayed as being “anti immigrant” (like Winston and NZ First), which is rather negative, although Labour would actually still allow about 25000 new immigrants per year.

We can see again, how key media personalities in shows such as the am show are about to throw the spanner into Labour’s election campaign, trying to stop them from making any headway in reaching and convincing more voters to vote Labour.

The same will be done for the Greens. We must expect that boof-head sports commentator to present even more anti Green and anti Labour comments in the lead up to the election, and Garner will do little to keep that one shut up.

So on this one Little deserves credit, for drawing a clear line in the sand, after the Nats only announced some tweaks to the immigration system, that will not change all that much, but hit those who cannot earn close to 50k a year.

What they may not have thought through is that this may also stop many foreign students from coming to NZ to study, as many only did so in order to have the opportunity to become permanent residents.

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/329160/new-immigration-rules-could-hit-young-foreign-students

https://www.immigration.govt.nz/about-us/media-centre/news-notifications/skilled-migrant-category-changes

“and yet here is Dunc’s acting as if Andrew Little had announced he was marrying Jacinda.”

Now that would really be news to these news junkies.

yes ANDREW if becoming far more decisive as a leader should be, and we welcome this rather than the wimpy style he had previously.

Martyn please don’t get sucked into the mayhem that is “breakfast talking heads” rubbish.

You are a top of your standard of a subjective critical journo.

Not one of those many talking heads parroted types that hold their willing hand out for money as they produce all that rubbish.