11.30am
Get a load of all these Lower Hutt people! The only other time Queensgate will see a crowd this size is Boxing Day or someone leaving a zero off all the stickers at Noel Leeming. In attendance are police officers, DPS, various Labour MPs and the kind woman from the cover of Time magazine.
What does it mean? It means one of the most powerful forces in voting, or at least New Zealand politics, is at work: people are voting in very large numbers to keep things the way they are. Of course they are, Twitter is reminding me, you should have seen the crowd John Key got there in 2014.
