Well, the polls have been giving signs that a National Party revival was underway, and last night's One News Kantar poll confirmed that National has bounded ahead seven points to 39% to take the lead in the latest poll, the first since January. Labour’s dropped three points to 37%.  

It's the first time National has been ahead of Labour since February 2020, which of course was a month before Covid-19 entered the lexicon, entered the world, and New Zealand was plunged into lockdown.  

National leader Christopher Luxon told Newstalk ZB's Mike Hosking this morning, that people wanted strong economic leadership and there's real sense that the government has lost direction.  

He speaks a lot of sense. He absolutely does.  There is still a heck of a lot of work to do for Luxon, and as he says, you don't want a party to just oppose the Government, they want to propose a different way and a better way.  A lot of what he says is absolutely bang on.  

Hopefully this will send a message to the Government that you cannot run a country on ideology alone.  There have to be foundations and underpinnings that show the ideology works, or at the very, very least, does no harm.  And it also shows that you cannot live off your Covid response forever.  

These polls are a sign that perhaps there are more people beginning to chafe and resent the Government control over so many aspects of our lives.