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Mike's Minute: The only thing deciding this election is the economy · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: A pole. The government should be worried about whose fault
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  Speaker 2: is the economy? That was the question for the poll,
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  Speaker 2: Whose fault is the economy? The importance of this is
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  Speaker 2: based on the simple premise that this election is about
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  Speaker 2: one thing, basically, the state of the place. Is it
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  Speaker 2: getting better or not? Do you see a brighter future
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  Speaker 2: or not? Forget all the other issues and policies, they're frippery.
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  Speaker 2: All that matters is the state of you. While that
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  Speaker 2: your finances, your lifestyle, your hopes, your aspirations. The government
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  Speaker 2: will argue they inherited a mess and it was so
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  Speaker 2: big it takes time to turn it round. For a
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  Speaker 2: while they had us on site. We believe them mainly
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  Speaker 2: because it was true. Of course, history will show what
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  Speaker 2: labour did seventeen through twenty three, in particularly twenty through
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  Speaker 2: twenty three is one for the record books. It was cataclysmic.
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  Speaker 2: Things were coming right until the war. Then the momentum
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  Speaker 2: was lost. It's now back to a degree. I mean
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  Speaker 2: GDP the number we got last week growing like manufacturing
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  Speaker 2: and services. They're an expansion. Jobs still an issue. Confidence
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  Speaker 2: still fragile. So their job is to reconvince you that
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  Speaker 2: they had it in hand. Trump got in the way.
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  Speaker 2: Just stick with us, She'll be right. And so did
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  Speaker 2: the Pole Horizon poll done in the early part of
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  Speaker 2: this month. Thirty one percent say yep, it was Trump,
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  Speaker 2: seventeen percent say it's labor, but twenty nine percent say
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  Speaker 2: it is on this government. So twenty nine percent blame
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  Speaker 2: the government. Now, like all poles, you can read it
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  Speaker 2: a million different ways. Thirty one Trump and seventeen labor.
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  Speaker 2: That's forty eight, not a majority, thirty one seventeen and
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  Speaker 2: twenty nine to seventy seven. So what about the don't knows?
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  Speaker 2: A lot of don't know. It's twenty three percent. So
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  Speaker 2: between the don't knows and the forty eight, you can
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  Speaker 2: talk you way to victory. I would have thought. But
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  Speaker 2: if the twenty three go with the seventeen at forty
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  Speaker 2: that's a lot of people who don't believe you, and
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  Speaker 2: you're in trouble. You could be positive, which I am,
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  Speaker 2: and suggest those who think it's on the government twenty
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  Speaker 2: nine percent. That's not actually that many if you think
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  Speaker 2: about twenty nine percent, So their argument is landing well,
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  Speaker 2: but they would need to swing a few of the
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  Speaker 2: don't knows their way just to make sure either way,
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  Speaker 2: This is what this vote comes down to. The evidence,
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  Speaker 2: although there and growing, is not cemented in enough yet
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  Speaker 2: to feel really confident. So on these numbers though, I
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  Speaker 2: would rather be the government than not. But on these
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  Speaker 2: numbers it's all playful.
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