I mean we all knew they were trouble, hence the election result, and as I mentioned at the start of the show no one held them to more account than this programme.
But then there's this new report from the Auditor-General John Ryan on the shovel ready projects.
How big of a nail in the coffin of economic credibility do you want? How big a laughingstock do you want to be?
"How to blow $15 billion" was one headline.
It talked about the advice they got and the advice they ignored. By the way, the members of the media who wet themselves the other week about the new Government ignoring Treasury advice, I hope you read this report and I hope you report on the report.
Because no one ignored more advice than Labour 2017-2023. Also, the report covers some activity of the first Labour term, the one with New Zealand First. So, if you are one of those that thought Winston was on top of his brief, read up. It was a shambles.
Everyone was telling them they didn’t have the money, they didn’t have the planning, and they didn’t have the workforce. The risk of blowouts were all over the place, none of it was set to go, or dare we suggest, shovel ready.
But so desperate were they to appear to be doing something to drag the economy out of the post Covid hole they had engineered, they weren't listening. And so, we end up with yet another reminder of the great calling card of Labour - non-delivery.
Say a lot, do nothing. Announce it, then do nothing. Trumpet it for the news, then watch the crickets chirp.
It is all there. Billions upon billions of dollars, of ideas and disaster, of no planning and even less listening.
Nicola Willis is right, and we will hear all about it next week. The shambles she has been left is almost criminal.
Luxon is right as well, when he said the other day, this lot should not be let within a million miles of the cheque book ever again.
Read the report. If we hadn't lived through it, you wouldn’t believe it.
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
How big of a nail in the coffin of economic credibility do you want? How big a laughingstock do you want to be?
"How to blow $15 billion" was one headline.
It talked about the advice they got and the advice they ignored. By the way, the members of the media who wet themselves the other week about the new Government ignoring Treasury advice, I hope you read this report and I hope you report on the report.
Because no one ignored more advice than Labour 2017-2023. Also, the report covers some activity of the first Labour term, the one with New Zealand First. So, if you are one of those that thought Winston was on top of his brief, read up. It was a shambles.
Everyone was telling them they didn’t have the money, they didn’t have the planning, and they didn’t have the workforce. The risk of blowouts were all over the place, none of it was set to go, or dare we suggest, shovel ready.
But so desperate were they to appear to be doing something to drag the economy out of the post Covid hole they had engineered, they weren't listening. And so, we end up with yet another reminder of the great calling card of Labour - non-delivery.
Say a lot, do nothing. Announce it, then do nothing. Trumpet it for the news, then watch the crickets chirp.
It is all there. Billions upon billions of dollars, of ideas and disaster, of no planning and even less listening.
Nicola Willis is right, and we will hear all about it next week. The shambles she has been left is almost criminal.
Luxon is right as well, when he said the other day, this lot should not be let within a million miles of the cheque book ever again.
Read the report. If we hadn't lived through it, you wouldn’t believe it.
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
4 comments:
Inept management - but, masters of the dirty tactics and sabotage.
The aim is clearly to bring down the coalition ( aided by the MSM).
Had Labour been re-elected would they have revealed the Auditor General's report?
I suspect they might have managed to release it on Christmas Eve, and then run for the hills.
Just like Jacinda did with Mangere stonefields, which incidentally is now a squalid mess, without any progress on building any housing.
Another Labour landmine.
Will we hear about it till next week if most of the media ignore the story.
Mike - if the AG shone his torch on anything that Ardern, Robertson, Hipkins etc did over the last 6 years we would read the same shambolic plot. And a good point regarding Peters - he was there for most of it and he was the one that put these idiots in charge instead of the safe hands of Bill English. Remember too, their biggest 'project' was Covid. It is beyond me why so many still think they did a good job, or "not too bad" with Covid. They didn't. They never had the skills to do anything but a shambolic job with Covid......or anything.
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