JC: Should We Trust Labour

Definitely not. There have been a few clangers recently. Some are hypocritical, some are laced with irony, some have both and some are straight out misleading.

Labour’s spokesperson on local government, Tangi Utikere, said Labour will not be supporting the Government’s legislation on a rates cap. At the same time he said the current increases are “unaffordable in the long term”. The logical conclusion to draw from that is the party should be supporting the legislation, especially as no alternative was offered.