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Chapter 1: What policies is the Labour Party proposing this election year?
For those of you who were super keen to hear from the Labour Party in election year, right, have you noticed this in the last week or so, as to what they might have in mind to read the policy? My question to you is this.
Now that they've started handing out the ideas, does the size of the cock up make you wish, one, they hadn't bothered, and or two, can you believe the incompetence of past years hasn't been addressed yet? Now, the bus idea. That's not $65 million, according to economists, possibly well, in fact, over $100 million.
The cancellation of the primary testing, that's been released seemingly through Ginny Anderson's substack of 115 followers. The doctor's visits that pays for millionaires to go to the GP. The pay equity promise that despite the fact all would be revealed post the budget has not been revealed or anywhere close. You've got two things to see in election year, right? One, the policy itself.
Chapter 2: How much will the Labour Party's proposed policies actually cost?
And we debate those as ideas around ideology or workability into the bill for any such idea. Now, the latter is of increasing importance in recent years because one, the previous Labour government spent all the money and then some, and two, we still have no money and therefore simply dreaming up ideas with no bills attached is no longer acceptable to most voters. Or is it?
And that's my other great conundrum at the moment in this current election year. Can a party who might well be government promise something with an $11 billion price tag, not explain where the money comes from, but gets away with it anyway, given the punter isn't really that interested? Polling might help. But that's another conundrum I've got. Do I trust polling? No, I don't.
Chapter 3: What are the implications of Labour's cancellation of primary testing?
The participation rate is now so ropey, people, to my mind, when they do find them to talk, actually tell pollsters anything. If what Labour have produced so far in terms of ideas, lack of dollars and general calamity was accurately measured, you might see a drop in support. Or not. But if you trusted polls, at least you could get a gauge as to what's going on.
Upshot, though, is this lot under Chris Hipkins seem to have learned nothing.
Chapter 4: How reliable are polling results in assessing public opinion?
There is not a lot of coordinated, well-honed or slick anything about this. For those waiting... it would appear to be a disappointment, a haphazard sort of piecemeal kind of effort that after all this wait and see they've been playing turns out to be the same old group of sloppy thinkers and lazy operators.
Hoping the government would fail was their best chance, given when they're forced to sell themselves to you, they look like a year eight school project and not a particularly good one.