Set the table for bread and butter - or in this case, fruit and veg: Labour fired its opening election campaign salvo on Sunday with a starkly populist pitch for tax-free produce.
The party is pushing ahead with the pre-announced policy despite hiccups in the reveal and near-universal opposition from experts - including in its own ranks: a clear sign the party is putting polling ahead of principle.
In this week's Focus on Politics, Deputy Political Editor Craig McCulloch assesses the political calculus behind Labour's vote-grabbing GST policy.
I really hope the voting public will see this for what it is.
A way to reduce their bills at the supermarket?
A receding tide lowers all boats?
I don’t really know where I’m going with this, I just thought it was funny
The rising tide is the dumbest thing economists ever thought of. It actually typifies the short sighted scientifically illiterate nature of economics thought.
I guess they never realised there was a finite amount of water in the world and rising tides in one place meant ebbing tides in another.
This is brilliant - thanks!