Early Edition with Kate Hawkesby

Have you noticed the announcement blitz the Government is on ever since John Key’s piece got massive coverage? Hit a nerve anyone? I found it amusing how on the one hand, they called it insulting and simplistic, while on the other hand saying they were implementing a lot of his ideas.  So, which is it? Simplistic and insulting, or good enough for you to go ahead with? Either way, they’ve been dragging the chain on the ideas for so long, that if anything, at least his piece elicited some action. Because this Government is reactive, it hates bad press. It'll be alarmed to have had a swing taken at it, given it's become used to a fawning compliant media. The fact commentators are turning will be new and startling territory.  Combine Key’s critique of them with a bad poll result, and whammo, they’re going to start announcing some stuff. Watch all the announcements roll out this week; we’ve already had RSE workers, private quarantine for business trials, vaccine passport ideas and boundary exemptions for Aucklande