Very well said Russell - market research will always deliver the comfortable and familiar. It is all about followship. Flags should lead from the front!

The 'dead cat' has at least contributed to the feeling that we cane do better than this - it's time for a change! Coming immediately after Andrew Little demonstrated Prim Ministerial values, vision and focus in could represent the turning point.

Agreed Russell. The bureaucratic boffins will be every annoyed that their Teflon John has lost the plot and taken his eye off the Fern-Foisting ball! Yesterday's great distraction was probably a cunning plan to make us feel warm, cuddly and all-a-flutter about back and white but it seems Kiwis aren't panda-ing to his ploy. Watch out for desperate attempts to align All Blacks success at the RWC with love of the fern!