Ryan Bridge: Labour's getting protest votes

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Aug 12, 2025 · 2m · transcript

People aren't telling pollsters they'd vote for Labour because they'd actually vote for Labour.

Labour hasn't got any policies - they're an empty vessel.

It's captain is still, according to most recent polling, less popular than the current Prime Minister.

It's a protest vote. They're telling the PM to hurry up and do something else to rescue the economy the last lot, and a trade war, have suppressed.

You don't throw the baby out with the bath water and back a team that has no plan.

That clown that's running in the Wellington Mayoral race has more policies than Hipkins. He wants to turn the…