The piece examines the controversy surrounding Superintendent Rikesh Naidu's decision to stand as a Labour candidate, focusing on whether the police were given timely notice to ensure operational neutrality, and questions the adequacy of internal processes around political candid
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This podcast is supported by our Vita retirement communities. Life your way. Now I can't imagine Labour's woken up feeling awesome this morning about how that reset is going. What do you think? This is a reset, you do realize. After months of saying nothing, having no new policy, generating headlines for ice veral, singing weird songs about ducks. They started this week with a classic reset move. So they got themselves a story in the Herald on Monday, claiming Nicola Willis tried to hide secret spending in the budget. Then they followed it up really quickly with a list announcement, unveiling the policeman candidate. And then tomorrow, they were supposed to have their big substantial policy announcement in months. It was supposed to be this run of good news. Unfortunately for them, it's gone a little bit pear-shaped, hasn't it? And the secret money has turned out to actually just be an accounting provision. And the listener man announcement got derailed by Greg O'Connor taking a crack at them. And then the new guy for one of the Māori seats revealed that there's some tax relief policy coming, which he wasn't supposed to say. And then Chippy got busted for using his government kiwi saver to buy a batch, and then the policeman didn't tell his bosses early enough that he was off to join the Labour Party. All of this is not a good look for Labour, because they can hardly expect to convince voters that they're ready to govern if they can't even get 24 hours worth of announcements to go to plan without getting derailed by about by about four or five different things. But to be fair to Labor, the last 24-48 hours is really not the end of the world. It is pretty beltway stuff. This stuff. Well, at least the stuff as far as the policeman goes is beltway stuff. In five months' time, when the election rolls around, no one but the biggest political nerds in this country will remember any of it. Five months gives them plenty of time to fix all of this stuff up, but they really do have to get on and fix it because this is the same problem, just repeated. The same problem as the duck horse ice veral singing situation. This looks like a party unable to get its act together and just do one thing properly. For more from the Mike Asking Breakfast, listen live to News Talks Ed B from 6 a.m. weekdays or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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