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We could spend some time on the ineptitude of Jan Tinetti, who may well go down as one of our most ineffective education ministers.\xa0

The blow out in school buildings, as the Prime Minister suggested, borders on a crisis and, according to Labour, that\u2019s just the price of stuff going up.\xa0

Which leads you to ask - were they setting traps for a new Government knowing they were going to lose, or were they genuinely thinking they could win and, if they did, they would worry about paying the ever-mounting bills another day?\xa0

But some real insight from former minister Stuart Nash who, in an irony of ironies, turned out to be a big Government supporter in their gang crackdown.\xa0

As the media set about finding every man, woman and dog to tell us how cracking down on gangs was a mixture between a stunt and a gimmick and a waste of time, forgetting of course most of last year's outrage over violence, what we got from Stuart was the proof of what Mark Mitchell had been banging on about for a year or so.\xa0

There's a limit set on what police could grab as a result of moneys earned by nefarious means.\xa0

The limit set by the previous Government on assets police can seize was $30,000.\xa0

Mark, and the rest of us, asked why?\xa0

Your chopper is $25,000 so you keep it, despite the fact you sold drugs to fund it. Why?\xa0

It turns out Stuart was busy in cabinet fighting for a zero target and he was being overruled by Hipkins and Ardern. In that revelation is an insight, or perhaps a confirmation, of what we suspected.\xa0

Labour are soft on gangs. Labour let people out of prison. Labour funded an industry in cultural reports. Labour encouraged the judges to go soft, and what we got was rampant crime and anti-social behaviour.\xa0

So much of it that it became somewhere between the number one or two issue in the election.\xa0

I don't blame Stuart. He always struck me as being at the more sensible, practical end of the party. But look at what he was dealing with.\xa0

This new Government has been left with the equivalent of an unexploded World War II bomb in a major built-up area and they're looking at how to defuse it and take it away.\xa0

It's almost daily at the moment.\xa0

And the more we get, the more we see the mess, the carnage, the tragedy, the abject failure and fiscal incompetence of Labour 2020 - 2023.\xa0

And with the more we know, surely the further from power they should be kept.\xa0

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