Jacinda Ardern

OPINION: I feel like both parties have the warm-white-wine-and-congealing-cheap-hummus-allure of a compulsory work do on a Friday night.

She’s proved how great she is in a crisis, but she’s also got a Government that can’t shake the image it just can’t get anything done. And so far, the Labour Party has tackled these kinds of issues with the effectiveness of a punctured flamingo pool toy. And at the moment, her image is that of a dynamic, brilliant leader who is hampered by an ineffectual team. But conversely, we’re not going to vote in National, which has the opposite problem to Labour, ie a lot of ideas but a totally unrelatable leader. We did it twice, and we still love Jacinda, but we’re disillusioned with the ineffectual intellectual rut that the party is in. We still love the hero, but it’s hard to ignore the feeling the show is limping towards a finale and doesn’t really deserve a third season.