Mike Hosking Breakfast

The chunk of the media who are still in love with the Labour Party are on some sort of campaign right now to undermine Chris Luxon. They have taken two events they perceive to be major issues and tried to turn them into even more major issues. One was the Te Puke post. Two, was the tax policy confusion. Neither are big deals; both are beltway only of interest to those obsessed with the Wellington political environment. To be fair, both were mistakes, both look like a bit of a fumble, and both in a slick machine should not have happened. So, it is okay to question current performance. But by the time National got to their conference over the weekend they were doubling down on tax. They were allowing us to keep as much of our money as possible. That approach is to be encouraged. Ironically, the best that one media outlet could do, was traipse off to an economist from the Council of Trade Unions who gave them the obligatory line about their tax policy numbers not adding up. The media at times