Early Edition with Kate Hawkesby

I’m still in slack mouthed shock at Barbara Edmonds' performance on this programme yesterday. After the release of the Government’s books showing we’re still in deficit and will be in deficit longer and with every day that passes our debt grows, Labour was quick to say National has screwed things up and we should have voted Labour onto the Treasury benches. I would have thought that would mean they knew how to do things better. Therefore, they could perhaps tell you and I what should have been done.  So, we gave them the opportunity to share their superior knowledge, particularly with you the voter, yesterday morning And what did we get? Nothing other than slogans and a general tone of "just trust us things could have been better and we’ll tell you why next year".  Now to be fair, she did criticise National's tax cuts. That was the moving of the thresholds and reinstating the rebates for landlords.  That had the effect of reducing government revenue by $14 billion dollars. $14 billion that coul