They took it to the supermarket. Don’t know why, but they had to start it somewhere.
Just when you thought the two main parties were fixed on a do-little election, the National Party bursts out the triangulator and gazumps its Labour rivals with a pledge to pursue a breakup of the Foodstuffs group of Pak’n’Save, New World and Four Square.
In a new edition of the politics podcast Gone By Lunchtime, Annabelle Lee-Mather, Ben Thomas and Toby Manhire race their trolleys to the studio to ask: will Nicola Willis’s bold call cut through the blancmange like a Smeg blade through an Ooshie? Will the popular appeal outweigh the pushback from businesses and part of the base? Are the KiwiMart Greens and National and NZ First now natural partners? Where does it all leaves Labour? And does Annabelle deserve more acclaim for her menage-opoly bit?
Plus: The report on the four-year ordeal for the Phillips children has been released. What are the lessons for agencies including Oranga Tamariki and the Police, and is New Zealand suffering from an “accountability sink”?
And what to make of the moves to wind down the Waitangi Tribunal?
