So what's it going to be this year? Is it going to be the year of central command and control? Is it going to be the year of spin and self-congratulations? Or perhaps the year of an alternate reality? The Prime Minister talks about preparing for winter. I think, for the Labour Government, it will be a very long winter, a winter of discontent and a winter that never ends, as the chills of public frustration at the decisions they are making come to roost. Because the reality is, when the Prime Minister talks about the fact that the last two years have tested New Zealanders in ways we have not seen for many decades, they've been tested, Prime Minister, because of the very decisions you have made, or the decisions you haven't made, the plans you haven't made, the actions that weren't in place fast enough. So the damage has been done, and much of that damage could have been avoided. 