Mike's Minute: Spectacular U-turn shows an out of touch Government
As far as U-turns go, this is a spectacular one.
On Tuesday, the Government announce GST on KiwiSaver fees, Wednesday afternoon they're gone, so less than 24 hours.
They were gone before they even arrived.
What it tells us, apart from the fact it's good news and we can take that money and actually save it, as opposed to giving it to the Government, is that the Labour Party has literally no idea what ordinary every day New Zealanders think.
And that’s mainly because virtually none of them are remotely like the rest of us.
That is the danger of a political party that is stacked with wonks who…
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