Labour’s confused message

John Armstrong gets to the nub of Labour’s problem:

Labour’s more immediate priority is bursting Key’s bubble. It is tying itself in knots instead.

Labour paints Key as Ruth Richardson in drag – someone who will reveal his true colours when he becomes prime minister and start pursuing National’s “hidden agenda”.

But Labour also portrays him as someone who does not seem to stand for anything.

He cannot be both these things.

I often wonder if Labour realises how contradictory its spin on Key often is. Sometimes they try and paint him as both an ideologue with a secret agenda and someone with no beliefs at all, on the same day.