"Labour can probably get away with this spectacularly abrupt change of heart."

"Labour can probably get away with this spectacularly abrupt change of heart. After all, its campaign slogan in the wake of Hipkins’ baptism as leader in January could well be the biblical promise: 'Old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.' Sometimes, it seems, within the space of a few hours."

~ Graham Adams, on transport minister Michael Woods's abrupt U-turn on transport policy earlier this week, from his post 'How Cyclone Gabrielle mugged the Greens and Labour'