People generally credit National as being a better economic manager but unfortunately don’t always join the dots between that and better social services.
However, David Farrar shows the impact of Labour’s increased spending for worse outcomes is showing up in Curia’s polls:
. . . A year after the last election, Labour had a huge 36% lead over National as the party which had the right approach to the health system. Only 14% of respondents picked National, and 50% Labour.
In my latest poll in June 2023, Labour were down 16% to 34% and National up 16% to 30%. The 36% gap is now only 4%.
Based purely on spending, you would expect Labour to remain way ahead of National. In the 2017 Budget, Steven Joyce announced $16.7 billion for the public health service. In the 2023 Budget Grant Robertson announced $26.5 billion. That is a massive 60% increase…
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