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Clever video. A couple of major gaps to be filled in though:
1) What is Labour really trying to say about National as a party with this, and about the “Missed Opportunity*” that this budget represents?
2) Explain why Labour has better answers? (Or at least when the electorate can expect them)
*Probably worthwhile keeping hammering home a few sound bytes like this…
Simple easily remembered – point made. Explanations, implications belong in another venue. Well done. Or as Spud would say concisely
Hi Ianmac
What little of it they’ll have left 
Right on the money
can you guys confirm;
DID john key say there would be no borrowing to fund tax cuts?
Tracey as I remember that he and Bill said that often during 2008. The wriggle of course is that they are not going to borrow for tax cuts at all. Just borrow to fill the hole/debt that might have been caused in say Health -not to fund tax cuts. No way! Robbing Peter to….
yeah, I hear ya
…but am pretty sure I heard Bill admit yesterday that it would be costing 450m more in borrowing to pay for the cuts… I must have misheard because Labour or Greens of Big Jim would have been on to this in a flash?
@ Tracey, I’m sure I heard Double Dipton say on radio that he is not borrowing to pay for tax cuts, he is borrowing to pay for expenditure. It’s a bit like quitting your job then going on a spender bender on the credit card. Crazy.
The headline is very accurate. That really is a budget video from Labour.
lame
Good stuff, plain simple message exposing symptoms, now for part 2, the plain simple solutions?
Hate to rain on this but Labour did leave the country in a mess in regards to ACC.
I’m surprised you’d even complain about taxcuts when Labour fudged on these for many years and were rightly humiliated with the “chewing gum” tax cuts.
Not too sure what this is trying to prove?
They don’t need anything fancy to point out that this budget is crap!
@Clint I’d rather have chewing gum or a block of cheese than lose money each week which is what is happening to me now.
@whaleoil you’re making the “old media” mistake of equating high production values with online message effectiveness, as Michael Eisner (Disney) said “the definition of quality has changed” with online video.
Nicola, it’s happening to you now you say? Well, in October you will be fine then
If you’re a student then you will have to wait until you work fulltime and then you, like every other taxpayer, will see more in your back pocket every payday!