My wife is not a political animal but last night's performance by Goof and the new Labour spend up policy on Child welfare had her spitting tacks. "I saw some woman on TV with 6 kids complaining beneficiaries need more money. Why should I pay for her inability to keep her legs closed? We didn't have kids until we could afford them and we limited out family size for the same reason."
She starts yelling "Show us the money." Well done John Key, you have defined the 2011 election for most of us. We read daily of Europe in danger of collapsing due to excessive government spending caused largely by bloated social welfare and Goof wants us to follow that example. My canny wife says "No one believes Labour have a plan to pay for all this." She works with a large group of immigrants and none of them are voting Labour this time around.
I think Labour know they will be toast in November so are trying to retain the 25% or so of the electorate who represent their core, regardless of how nonsensical their policies as a result.
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