“The idiot cousin of Labour’s craven desperation”

Luke Malpass writes:

When Chris Hipkins finally announced the badly kept secretthat Labour would do away with GST on fruit and vegetables – if Labour is re-elected – he confirmed what will be a contender for being the stupidest and most principle-free decision of a major party of this election campaign.

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This proposed change – beloved by certain sections of the old-school political left – is really the idiot cousin of Labour’s craven desperation. 

It’s framed as a response to the cost of living crisis, but it won’t come in for eight months, and some of the rest of their policy doesn’t impact until a further year after that.

It is a rare combination of desperation and idiocy.