Transport Credibility

Notification of his intent to run for political office on a Thursday just before it's announced on the next Monday was, as we see, an organizational failure. Not enough notice. The superintendent should have known the police manual better and should have had the back room administrators of the Labour Party checking it and giving him some advice, but obviously they didn't. Then they released a public transport policy that everyone says is low on its costing. And then the spokesperson, Tangi Utikadi, was unable to name the projects in the National Land Transport Fund that would be defunded to make room for it. Making it seem like a good enough idea, but drawn up on the back of an envelope, making it seem like no one has really done the back room grunt on the numbers. And it is a good idea for young people in towns and cities, but why on earth would you release a public transport policy when the nation's attention is on field days and the rural sector? And it was plainly evident last night from the reaction to the show that the country folk have no desire to subsidize the city folks' transport. This was the week for a rural sector announcement, not an urban one. Labor's political management seeming amateur. And then there's this festering accusation that Labour simply didn't set up a site at field days, which, if true, again, uh lays on the head of the organizational staff. And this, if you talk to Labour Insiders, has been Labour's perennial problem. A handful of somewhat competent politicians without the backup of a competent party mechanism. And it all leads us to the feeling that if they cannot manage their day-to-day business, how on earth would they run the country?