Kate Hawkesby: Good luck to those planning a summer holiday outside of Auckland

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Nov 4, 2021 · 2m

You can always tell when a topic has hit a nerve... The text machine blows up with texts, people email me before, during and after the show has gone to air.

And this was the case yesterday over the latest crazy suggestion from the Government – that Aucklanders could face being set allotted time slots to travel this summer. It was such a stupid idea that no sooner had Chris Hipkins uttered it out loud than Grant Robertson was shooting it down.

And therein lies a lot of the problems with this Government’s response to this pandemic.

It’s chaotic, all over the show, and smacks of knee jerk…