Thwack. Thwack. Thwack. Let’s all play Whac-A-Mole. Do we have any choice? Nope. You can’t go anywhere at the moment without a pesky policy mole popping out of its hole to offer you stuff, only for it to be whacked down by a rival mole popping up from its hole. National would spend $24.8 billion over 10 years on its transport plan. Whack goes Labour, saying its costings are, er, out of whack.
Up pops the Labour mole and – thwack! – GST will come off fruit and veges. Then it pops back up and adds more tax on fuel. This is known among moles as a self-whacking.
National then joined it with double whack. It said it will dump