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Key and English sending conflicting messages
Hon David Cunliffe
Finance Spokesperson
6 April 2009 Media Statement
Key and English sending conflicting messages
New Zealanders need more certainty from the National Government about how it plans to fight the global recession, not conflicting messages from John Key and Bill English, Labour’s Finance spokesperson David Cunliffe said today.
“Bill English is again out of step with the Prime Minister about how New Zealand will come out of the recession,” David Cunliffe said.
On TVNZ’s Q+A yesterday Bill English said “I think one of the features of this recession is that we're unlikely to aggressively grow out of it”.
But John Key on the same programme two weeks earlier said “I think by the end of 2009 early 2010 this time next year we'll be starting to come out of that and I think actually starting to come out of it reasonably aggressively,”.
“If they can’t agree with what the problem is, how are they going to develop a solution? What are Kiwi’s workers and business owners meant to take from the confusion between the PM and his deputy,” David Cunliffe said.
“This only serves to confirm what I have been saying consistently. The Government has no comprehensive plan to tackle the recession. If they did, both leaders would be signing from the same song sheet. But there appears to be some disharmony.
“It could also be that Bill English is continuing his crusade to undermine the Prime Minister. What about Bill English’s other greatest hits -
‘[John Key’s] always got 10 ideas - that's the
trouble with him. Getting on those bloody planes he comes
back with 10 different things. I just say we'll look at
that.’
-NZ Herald, 21 Jan 2009
‘I’m a stayer, he’s a sprinter. I grind away, John just bounces from one cloud to another.’-North and South, July 2007
‘[On John Key’s Cycle-way] We won’t be spending $50 million dollars on it this year, or next year, or the year after.’-TVNZ Q+A, 5 April 2009
“It’s time John Key and Bill English quit the power games and came up with a real plan to shelter New Zealanders from the economic crisis,” David Cunliffe said.
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