Government bloopers have dominated the headlines over the past week: yet do they foretell the end of the Ardern government? Or, for that matter, the result of the Hamilton by-election on Saturday.
The Prime Minister, deftly dancing on the head of a pin over the backdown on the 3 Waters “mistake”, was a sight to behold. Just as comical was the performance of Broadcasting Minister Willie Jackson on TVNZ’s Q+A which won for itself the headline (in the NZ Herald): “Jackson’s bizarre interview a trainwreck”.
These are only symptomatic of a government standing above a precipice almost demanding to be pushed over it.
Yet whether the electors of Hamilton West will give it the first shove is far from clear.
Certainly the National leader Christopher Luxon, when he was campaigning there last week, got no sense of a landslide coming in his direction.
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