People I’ve spoken to seem to believe Covid is a threat and the lockdown has saved us.
Few can conceptualise how paying the bill will affect them.
But mention the fact that govt locked us up before requiring passengers arriving from overseas to isolate and the anger comes out.
Nats need to carefully cherry-pick a handful of SLGs f*ups and slam the message home.
Sure there are plenty of examples of raw incompetence, but only a few will resonate with the Karens.

Speak for yourself.Stockholm syndrome — nah no way

Remember this is not an elected PM, just a Peters appointment and history says he is not good at his selections.

A talking head

Furthermore the NZ anti democratic system of electing a government has ensured that whatever the populace vote for they are not going to get it.

Bureaucracy rules after all