Wednesday, 11 February 2026 13:25

Bulldust!

Written by  The Hound

OPINION: Here w go: the election date is set for November 7 and the politicians are out of the gate with the bulldust and empty promises.

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!’


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