Ryan Bridge: The Green's budget is in la-la land

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · May 14, 2025 · 3m · transcript

Here’s a few c-words for your Thursday morning: communist, coalition, and crash.

Crash, because that’s what’d happen to the economy if we lived in the Green utopia complete with the $88-billion tax train wreck.

Coalition, because that’s what you’d get if Labour shacks up with their neighbours on the far left.

Hipkins yesterday first claimed not have read the manifesto. Whatever.

This is the manifesto of a party he could well be sitting round the cabinet table within a year from now.

He then refused to rule out anything in it. It won't rule out the hammer. And I won't rule out the sickle.

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