Red Alert » PM’s Speech http://blog.labour.org.nz A blog written by Labour MPs Fri, 25 May 2012 21:26:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Where’s the Nat front bench? http://blog.labour.org.nz/2010/02/09/wheres-the-nat-front-bench/ http://blog.labour.org.nz/2010/02/09/wheres-the-nat-front-bench/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:56:57 +0000 Chris Hipkins http://blog.labour.org.nz/?p=10561 I’ve been down in the House this afternoon listening to speeches on John Key’s statement. Interesting to note that their whole front bench, except for Chris Finlayson, who nobody has ever heard of, seem to have ducked for cover.

Instead we’ve been getting speeches from Pansy Wong and Phil Heatley. Where are the National Party’s big guns? Where is Gerry Brownlee? Where is Simon Power? Where is Judith Collins?

Colin Espiner notes in his blog:

“John Key has sketched out the direction he intends to take the Government this year. Now it’s up to Finance Minister Bill English to fill in the blanks.”

So why has English rushed out of the House? When is he going to fill in the gaps? If today was National’s first big test for the year, then they have failed miserably.

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