Kate Hawkesby: Good on David Seymour for meeting with the protesters

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Feb 16, 2022 · 3m

I don’t have a problem with David Seymour meeting with the protesters.

The Prime Minister does, obviously, but that's because he broke ranks of what up until now has been a pretty united front from all politicians. But Seymour decided dialogue might be a good thing - his justification being that "as protests change, so must the approach". And his view of it was that the extremists had gone, it was more peaceful now, and it was time for some responsible dialogue.

To backtrack how all this came about, we had on the show yesterday, Backbencher Pub owner Alistair Boyce, to talk about how the…