Potholes. Fiscal holes. The holes in Labour’s leaky buckets. The holes in our teeth that the Greens want to fix by giving us all free dental care. Holy moly. That’s what you might call a surfeit of political holes. Which brings us, reluctantly to, er, Grant Robertson’s hole.
That particular hole was dug by opposition deputy leader Nicola Willis, who gets the prize for the political faux pas of the year. She also pulled off the seemingly impossible feat of turning holes, which are inherently boring, into a stand-up comedy turn – if inadvertently.
In a question aimed at Finance Minister Robertson, she asked in the House: “How big is his hole?”
Oops. Willis had meant his government’s financial
