We just had a referendum on Seymour and 91% of people were against, which now that I look at it seems uncomfortably low

It's a great day to be someone who has lost and had to replace multiple hop cards over the years

Who could have predicted that intense focus grouping to winnow your policy platform down to its most inoffensive subset was not a winning strategy?

I think the basic problem is that kiwibuild went badly. And actually they were doing a lot of other things that worked well but just didn’t have the same public profile