In her article on nouveau Think Biggism in today's NZ Herald Fran O'Sullivan has some advice for John Key:
Key and English have finally woken up to the dangers of me-tooism. But neither politician is thinking fast enough. If National is true to its principles it would have simply said:
"We will increase the tax write-offs available to the private sector for genuine research and development, rather than set up a state fund which simply adds to the administrative burden and will end up in millions of dollars pledged to projects which will never result in commercial benefits."
But instead it again used its "wait till election time" mantra.
Key did, however, finally launch a coherent attack on the Government over its stance on the Canadian Pension Plan's bid for a 40 per cent stake in Auckland Airport.
He has also foreshadowed one major policy - National's intention to cap the number of core public servants at 36,000 - finally a line in the sand as far as National is concerned.
