Less
than convincingly, Judith Collins says that if elected to
govern, she would not be enacting any of the
austerity measures and welfare cuts advocated by her Act
Party partner. Yeah, sure. Because the National Party that
hand-wrapped and gifted the Epsom electorate to the Act
Party in several elections doesn’t ever do deals with Act,
right? In reality, Paul Goldsmith, National’s shadow
Finance Minister, shares more in common with Act’s
libertarian views than he does with say, the moderate
economic policies that Bill English used to
espouse.
It got even sillier yesterday. While claiming
immunity from Act Party demands, Collins was also arguing
that Labour would somehow have to fulfill all of the
Greens wish-list, including the wealth tax proposal. This
compulsion would allegedly prevail even if Labour won enough
votes to govern alone. Thankfully, nearly 1.2…
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