Nice discussion of the Labour Greens crown of thorns.
Grant Robertson, for Labour, and James Shaw, for the Greens, released on Friday a short document on the “budget responsibility rules” the two parties would adopt if they are in a position to form a government after the election.
As others have noted, it was PR win for the two parties, in what was in any case not a great week for the government (Afghanistan and all that). If one criticism of the left-wing parties in the 2014 election was that no one seemed sure what a Labour-Green government might look like, or how the key figures might get on, this is the sort of initiative that helps build confidence and makes people nearer the centre, or just tired of nine years of a government that has accomplished little, think harder about the possibility of voting for a change. Whatever their other specific policies, whatever their other limitations, in this release – and…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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