Is the political tide which Labour rode in triumph to victory last year beginning to ebb? The September Colmar Brunton poll pointed at least to it being on the turn.
Not that political pundits saw it that way. They were too heavily focused on how National’s leader Judith Collins had crashed to a new low point and canvassing how soon the caucus dissidents would coalesce to overthrow her.
Those experts hardly noticed that Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s once stellar popularity has moved off its peak and is now down at 44% — even though the communication skills which propelled her to the heights have been in daily evidence during the latest Covid Delta outbreak.
The other curious feature of the mainstream media’s analysis of the Colmar Brunton sampling was the almost universal view that the ACT party is sucking the oxygen out of National, excluding the rather different prospect that …
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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