Phil’s Gaffes #10 – Foot in mouth over SCF
September 1, 2010
It is on such days that the Opposition is better off displaying bipartisan support.
Phil Goff, instead, took the line that the firm might have traded its way out were economic conditions more favourable. It was the Government’s fault that was not the case.
This line is truly hard to swallow given South Canterbury Finance’s difficulties sprang from the heady boom times in the property market when Labour was in power.
Goff would have been better advised to have said nothing.
Yet another Goff Gaffe, and coming across as sad, desperate and irrelevant.
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goff is a pillock
One might also point out that Labour was warned that finance companies like SCF were a shitstorm waiting to happen — and it stands every bit as guilty as the current incumbents of doing sweet Fanny Adams. And with the benefit of hindsight, perhaps it wasn’t such a good idea to include finance companies in the RDGS — which I assume Goff, King and Cunliffe assented to when Michael Cullen ran it by Cabinet.
Indeed Craig; the concept of collective Cabinet responsibility is like a millstone around Goff’s neck. No matter how hard he tries, he cannot escape it. Just as he cannot escape from the fact bthe he was a member of Labour Cabinets which introduced and increased GST.