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| Chris Trotter |
I would add that he also failed to mention National's dependence on Act whose policies are far more extreme than National's (see pn916. A Vote for National would be a vote for these reactionary ACT policies) and the likely instability of the Act-Winston Peters NZFirst line up. See Gordon Campbell's take on the latter.
Here are three extracts from Trotter's article (my emphases):
One of the odd aspects of the 2023 General Election campaign is how little real effort the governing Labour Party has put into convincing voters that the National and Act parties are actually planning to hurt them. Labour knows this because it is also planning to hurt the voters. Not as much, admittedly, as the Right, but pretty badly nonetheless.
Robertson is, thus, acutely aware that even minimal reductions in taxes must be answered by savage cuts in spending. He knows that National’s promised tax-cuts can only be paid for by imposing an austerity programme even more ruthless than his own.
That being the case, Labour’s supporters are entirely justified in expecting both Robertson, and the Prime Minister, Chris Hipkins, to go for National’s jugular – and rip it right out.
Labour’s job is to win – and keep on winning. And if, every once in a while, it loses, then its right-wing opponents should damn well know they’ve been in a fight.
To read the full article, click here.
-- ACW
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