JC: Cooking Books the Edmonds’ Way

If you think you are about to read about recipes from the latest Edmonds cookbook, you are sadly mistaken. This is not so much about a cookbook as cooking the books. The subject is someone by the name of Edmonds but there the similarities end.

The Edmonds in question is Barbara; the best option Labour has to masquerade as opposition finance minister. To give Barbara her due she does have experience in tax law and tax policy. She studied law at Auckland University and then took a position with Inland Revenue in Wellington doing tax policy.

John MacDonald: As John McEnroe would say...

I’m channelling my inner John McEnroe today. If there is such a thing.

This $4 billion cut to public service spending over the next four years that the Government has announced six weeks out from the election.

There’s only one response to it, isn’t there? And this is where tennis legend John McEnroe comes into it.