15 May 2014

Labour leader coins "fudge it budget"

3:05 pm on 15 May 2014

The Labour Party leader has called the Government’s budget a “fudge it” budget.

David Cunliffe called told Parliament the government has no vision for nation’s long-term well-being, but is “mired in politics as usual”.

“The government says the economy is in recovery, some even say booming, a so-called rock star economy. We ask New Zealanders is that true for you?”

Referenced John Armstrong’s New Zealand Herald column calling the budget “rifling through Labour's chocolate box of policies”, saying it was David parker’s brain who had been robbed.