The PM, when asked about whether she condoned the marches, muffled a barely audible "no" by way of reply.

That's a very skilled technique of a communicator who knows how to avoid a soundbite. One-word answers are not usable, barely audible ones especially so. There are no headlines to be gained from one-word answers. Her hope in answering that way is that the story dies and goes away. Because God forbid she get offside. She's into popularity and has been enjoying a swathe of it; this all looked a bit shabby and hypocritical so she tried to hose it down as a non-issue.

But it was an obvious issue and a glaring example of why we need to be at Level 1, something the opposition should be championing from the rooftops, especially given Muller is the self proclaimed voice of small business.

So why is he silent then?

Worse than that. He's indecisive.

He said he "would not be drawn on whether New Zealand should move to Level 1" he wanted to "see advice first". Sound familiar?

His one job right now surely, is to expose the weakness of this Government - a government more interested in being popular and getting re-elected than it is in getting us to Level 1.

Todd Muller needs to wake up.

He may not want to bark at every passing car, but this was a double decker bus driving right past him.