Early Edition with Kate Hawkesby

You know you're getting down to the rats and mice when you've got a major political party promising to change speed limits, if only we'll vote for them.  Now I'm not saying National's wrong about a lot of those 30k zones especially, some of them are probably really daft but others might make sense.  I guess the point is we're down to fairly trivial stuff now and the election campaign is limping into a petty bidding war.  Where is the meaningful debate about political ideas? Where is the serious discussion about where we see ourselves in five, ten years from now?  Where is the vision of a better New Zealand for our children, our grandchildren?  I guess we only have ourselves to blame, because when it comes to ticking the box on the day, what's going to motivate most of us?  I'll go out on a limb and say it's money.  Most of us are going to vote for the party which will either improve our lot in life, or at least not make it any worse.  Some of us may be contemplating what we're leaving for the kids, some may e