Watch through to about the 1m12s mark; that's where Phil Goff loses his composure, and gives a nebulous answer, which is greeted with laughter by the audience. This moment preceds the now-infamous "Show me the money!" line from the PM. It certainly won't be a moment that Phil Goff remembers with any fondness!
Andrea Vance is a journalist with Stuff, and shares a blog on the Stuff website with John Hartevelt. And Ms Vance raises a VERY interesting observation this afternoon; check this out:
Camp David Cunliffe must be a pretty lonely place right now.
Labour's lost the argument on the numbers. Phil Goff was allowed to front up to the public woefully unprepared on Labour's economic policies. That was one of two things: incompetent or a deliberate undermining of the leader.
So which was it? Is Labour that inept that it allowed Phil Goff to go into a public debate woefully underprepared, or is there an anti-Goff agenda on display?
Neither possibility is likely to fill the undecided voter with enthusiasm about the Labour Party. But the latter possibility, that David Cunliffe was setting Phil Goff up deserves some scrutiny. Full marks to Andrea Vance for saying in print what others have been wondering.
4 comments:
Goodbye Labour, another 3 years in the wilderness beckons.
Try to learn the lessons this time of why no-one is listening to you.
Once you have learnt them, please be kind enough to pass the on to your equally useless green mates.
What a waste of space
"This is not a personal attack or slight. The simple fact is things have got worse since he has been Prime Minister."
- Unemployment increased by 50 per cent, leaving 157,000 people out of work.
- 100,000 Kiwis left for Australia
- Prices up nearly four times faster than incomes.
- First credit rating downgrade in 13 years.
- 60,000 more on benefits costing $1b
- Wage gap with Australia increased by $32 a week.
- 55,200 people aged 15 to 24 not in education, employment or training.
- Economy grown by just 0.4 per cent
- Tax cuts actually cost an extra $1.1b in their first nine months.
- Underclass grown with 32000 more children living on benefit dependant households.
Phil Goff - still wasting space - because his list completely ignores the fact that during the 3 years in question the world economy has been through the worst period in 70 years, since the Great Depression.
We will never know if the figures would have been better or worse un Labour (thank goodness).
Against the measure of the larger Northern hemisphere economies NZ has done very well, and is a good news story. We are currently the 5th or 6th best performing economy in the OECD.
Who would know listening to the left in this country.
The fact is, you have to cut your cloth to suit the times you are in.
National have done that relatively well - so well done to them
@ Anon - you and Phil can spout these figures off to your heart's content. But the phone's off the hook; no-one's listening to Phil, except the blindly loyal. Even yesterday's policy release has gone down like a lead balloon; only 14.7% of people responding to the Stuff poll think WFF should be available to beneficiaries who aren't working.
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