Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-dqi7d-e551ed Can politics get any more exciting?   After two polls, one rogue, one not so bad we are now into the election campaign proper.   National has had a tumultuous few weeks but is now settling down.   Judith Collins has brought clear air to National’s sails and it is starting to show.   This week will see the last show downs in the house and Jacinda Ardern isn’t looking happy.   In the parliament Ardern’s mantra of kindness is replaced with baleful stares and barbed words. Her body language shows fear not strength.   Ardern is feeling pressure, and not all of that is from the opposition.   There is disquiet on the back bench at her willingness to knife Iain Lees-Galloway and there is talk of a knifing of another minister.   One wonders what Ardern is trying to distract from by chucking ministers under the bus.   As we lurch towards the election the wheels are starting to come off the economy, breaches in quarantine and strange infections of people leaving New Zealand all stand to under the sloganeering of the government.   And what exactly are their election policies going to be at this election. So far it is the sound of silence.   From today onwards we are going to see the biff and wallop of a true election campaign where for once the result is vitally important for our economy.   Are we going to elect a government built on borrow and hope, or are we going to elect one who will right the ship.   Labour used to mock John Key’s borrowing in the wake of the GFC and Christchurch earthquakes.   Labour’s debt monster is much greater than that.   This election is more important than any in the past twenty years.   Game on. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL-JRTig5Tw