Interesting description

Thomas Coughlan writes:

Hipkins, while appearing like a competent and normal human in more traditional political settings like Parliament and broadcast interviews, appears stilted and awkward when pretending to be normal in public. The campaign, alas for Hipkins, is showing up his flaws and Luxon’s strengths.

What an interesting description.

Things will get worse tomorrow, with the release of the Pre-election Economic Fiscal Update forecasts from Treasury, which are likely to show a gloomy outlook both for the Government’s finances and the economy at large, ideal mood music for the centre-right.

The focus shouldn’t be on the mythical projected surplus in four years time (which would require Grant Robertson to actually restrain spending) but on the current year and next year. I suspect they will be quite nasty.