Rob Hosking sums up the week

writes in NBR:

What a week.

The embraced the Treasury.

National embraced public transport in Auckland.

And Labour embraced Jane Kelsey.

A great summary.

In sharp contrast, the Labour Party is jackknifing confusingly and messily all over the road over the TPP agreement.

The week closed with looking as though he had lost control of the issue, with two former leaders Phil Goff and David Shearer opposing his opposition to the TPP deal, and with Grant Robertson – Labour's choice as Finance Minister in any future government – appearing on a platform with tenured university radical and free- opponent Professor Jane Kelsey.

Jane also opposed every Labour negotiated.

But it has to be said that week the Green party looked like the senior, rather than the junior party of New Zealand's political left wing.

Not for the first time.

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