Larry Williams Drive

That poll out last night should be a shock to no one.  That’s what happens if you ignore voters and just keep pushing through stuff we don’t want, like Three Waters or farmer’s climate tax. They deserve to be on 32 percent. I’d put that as the high-water mark frankly. And yesterday’s announcement is not going to help. It’s supposed to help; it’s supposed to make us like them a whole lot more again. But I don’t think it’s going to work. And I think this is part of the reason Labour is polling so low.  Because they keep making the same mistake over and over again, which is that they think throwing money around solves the problem. They can buy our votes, but then they don’t think about what happens next. Which is that it inevitably causes a problem downstream which makes a greater number of people grumpy.  It works like this: they’ve spent $190 million on giving parents more money to help them pay for early childhood education. Which is great, but it only helps the parents of 10,000 kids. There are 194,000 enrol