The Labour Party faces a dilemma. They lost the first MMP election because they broke up with the Alliance. They won the second MMP election because they both kissed and made up. Only a few weeks ago the government looked set to rule forever. Business confidence was up, interest rates down, and unemployment low.
Farmers are delirious with joy, spending up their biggest cheques since the Korean War.
They can't remember having it so good. Simple the alliance with the Alliance. The Alliance Party is disappearing off the electoral radar screen. The rest of the electorate identify these escapades with the government not with its desperate partners. Mind you, Labour ministers have left their flanks exposed.