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Podcast: Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald
Episode: John MacDonald: Desperately-needed policy or desperate politics?
Description: Here’s what Chris Hipkins should have said when he made the big announcement yesterday that, if Labour gets to form the next government, it will deliver 300 extra police officers and they’ll have a look at legislation to crack-down on gang convoys. What he should have said, is: “If you vote for us, we will finally give you what you assumed we were going to give you, until you realised at the last minute that we had let you assume the wrong thing without correcting you”. Because, when you think back to June this year, th...