While there are signs Labour is finally getting its act together, the voter is left staring into a deep fog in trying to discern what a Labour-Greens government would look like.
Labour and the Greens need to wake up and smell the coffee. The underlying message that both Opposition parties should take from last weekend's two television polls is that their working in isolation from each other is not working.
The almost identical results of the TVNZ and TV3 surveys only
further confirm what has been obvious all year - that September's election is shaping as a classic "no change" affair.
There is no groundswell of opinion of any significant depth pushing for National to be swept from office. Neither are voters responding favourably to Opposition attempts to manufacture one.
The majority of voters - or close to it - by and large seem pretty content with what National is dishing up. They will need some compelling reasons and an awful lot of convincing to switch their allegiance away from a mildly conservative, ruthlessly pragmatic Administration that listens to them to one which is still largely an unknown quantity.
While there are signs Labour is finally getting its act together, the voter is left staring into a deep fog in trying to discern what a Labour-Greens government would look like, how it would operate and what its priorities would be - and, with Labour effectively inviting the New Zealand First cuckoo into the centre-left nest, whether such a government is any longer conceivable.
