Trevor’s e-mail

Whale has a copy of Trevor Mallard’s e-mail to the masses. The key extract:

How­ever, as we all know the NACT team will be com­ing for us over the week­end, there will be hic­cups includ­ing a TVNZ poll taken before the launch and with­out the pol­icy details. We want to keep the momen­tum going as much as is possible.

The key point for us is not to be dragged down into the detail on the CGT. The pub­lic don’t care and we get boring.

Very ironic. Trevor is saying ignore the poll because it was taken before the policy details were known, yet he is also instructing the faithful to avoid mentioning the detail as he says the public don’t care about it.

If they don’t care about the detail, then the TVNZ poll should be regarded as accurate as it was taken after they had announced there would be a CGT but prior to any details. Can’t have it both ways.

Trevor even supplies pre-fabricated tweets for Labourites to use:

• Labour’s plan to keep assets and pay off debt  #ownourfuture
• Labour’s bold plan for the econ­omy– most NZers will get a tax break  #ownourfuture
• NZ not for sale #ownourfuture
• Fam­ily home exempt – tax not ret­ro­spec­tive #ownourfuture
• Kiwis bet­ter off with Labour #ownourfuture
• Stop Asset Sales #ownourfuture
• Labour’s plan means we can keep our assets #ownourfuture
• If you are in a hole, don’t sell the lad­der #ownourfuture
• Labour: Keep our assets to grow our econ­omy not some­one else’s #ownourfuture
• Labour’s tax reform will pay the debt down, and lets Kiwis own our future.    #ownourfuture

Of course the tax reform will not pay the debt down until at least 2018. It will increase the deficit and debt for the next two terms of Parliament if implemented.