Rural Vote Battle Heats Up as Parties Recruit High-Profile Farming Figures
The battle for the rural vote is on and parties are securing high profile names to try and bolster their chances at the general election.
There’ll be plenty more, from all the contenders, but this old mutt choked on a giant porky put out there by Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins.
Chippy’s claim that New Zealand’s structural deficit was created by the current Government rather than inherited from Labour is a beauty, even for him.
In 2023, Treasury briefed Nicola Willis as incoming finance minister that the deficit was structural, not temporary.
This was not due to Covid measures - Treasury’s numbers were based entirely on Labour’s spending and revenue settings.
As one astute commentator noted, a ‘structural deficit did not magically appear when Willis became finance minister!’
