Mike's Minute: Government has no connection with regular New Zealanders Mike's Minute: Government has no connection with regular New Zealanders You can see why Labour has dropped 10 points in the polls. Yes, the cycle bridge and its pending back down is a good example of just how wildly out of touch they are with regular New Zealanders like us. But the supermarket report the other day was almost next level in its madness. Firstly, these reports achieve nothing. They seem to fail to understand that just drumming up reports that lead nowhere merely marks you out as a hot air merchant. You aren't saving 33 cents a litre after the petrol probe, and you aren't going to save $1.20 on washing powder after this latest one.