Elections are always hard fought. But for most New Zealanders to be so desperate to throw out Jacinda Ardern’s original ‘dream team’ was extraordinary. Ardern’s Labour was arguably the most incompetent and destructive government in our history, yet despite this wish to boot them out – along with the seriously deluded Greens with their global warming catastrophising and anti-car mindsets and Te Pati Maori with their focus on supposed indigenous solutions for the non-existent ‘Aotearea’ – voters appeared markedly unenthusiastic at the prospect of National, with ACT, from the centre-right, romping home clear winners.