Who on earth would want to be leader of the Labour Party right now?
TV3 was lining up Labour leader Andrew Little's potential replacements on the telly last night. Jacinda Ardern, Grant Robertson, Kelvin Davis, Phil Twyford (whose middle name was revealed on the news as Stoner incidentally, who knew). But who among them would be willing to take the poisoned chalice right now?
We're less than two months out from the election and the party, according to last night's Newshub Reid Research poll, is at its lowest point ever and of course One News had it at its lowest in more than 20 years, so suffice to say it's looking pretty dire.
Andrew Little's wisdom in admitting he'd asked senior colleagues whether he should resign has been questioned. But so bad that the leader may not even make it back into Parliament after the election. It was inevitable that the media would ask that question. So perhaps he decided, "well the current strategy clearly isn't working why not just tell the truth?"
But of course then it became that game the media loves to play of "do you support Andrew Little" and the responses were picked apart for whether they just meant right this minute, or no matter what.