Larry Williams Drive

Well, I suspect many of us would’ve had the same reaction when we saw the news alerts on our phones last night. That a retailer had been stabbed to death in a store. And that was thinking, we knew this was going to happen. Because we did, didn’t we?  With all those ram raids, daylight robberies, tobacco thefts, we could see this coming.  I’m not going to lay blame on anyone for this other the person who did it. Because no one put the knife in their hand. They did it, it’s their fault. But I’m talking about the politics of this. Because this is very, very bad for the Government, but especially for Jacinda Ardern.  The public fury at what’s happening to our shopkeepers and shops is at fever pitch. We have bystanders now chasing and confronting robbers in baklavas out of sheer frustration at the fact that the authorities seem to not be doing enough. People are going to be very angry that it has now claimed a life. And they will blame the Government because it is the Government they look to, to do something.  And