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“The number one word to describe 2020 would be volatility and expecting the unexpected,” Goldsmith told the Mood of the Boardroom in Auckland on Monday. “We have 19 days, we will continue fighting and anything can happen.”
The so-called economy party should have had a vote rebound for its proposed tax cuts. But then Goldsmith started digging tax holes, billions of them. However, it is not responsible for it.
“We are all doing our best in our match,” he said Monday.
Goldsmith did not confirm when asked by Newshub if he had apologized to his colleagues on the National Party caucus for the tax hole debacle.
“We are all focused on winning the elections.”
As for why he didn’t offer his resignation, Goldsmith said: “Because we all make mistakes.”
But your mistakes can lead you to pursue a new career regardless. Goldsmith is a roster MP: he has gifted his Epsom seat to ACT and with national polls so low, the roster of MPs is cut short.
However, Goldsmith is confident that he will return to Parliament.
“We will do much better in the next two weeks.”
Labor finance spokesman Grant Robertson says Goldsmith should take the blame.
“Paul has to take responsibility for the fact that he is the finance spokesman who presented that plan,” he told Newshub.
Robertson says that if he made that kind of mistake with one of his budgets, he would consider giving himself the ax.
“I think you would seriously think about that.”
Elections are won and lost in the economy, and in the latest Newshub poll, Labor is cleaning up.
The Newshub-Reid Research poll asked voters: Who do you trust to run the economy and after COVID-19?
A majority of voters (55.1 percent) trust a Labor-led government under Jacinda Ardern, compared to 34.9 percent who trust National under Judith Collins, while 10 percent were undecided or did not know .
Goldsmith says he’s focused on the 100,000 New Zealanders who may lose their jobs.
“The best we can do is have a strong economy,” he said.
Solid economics: This was supposed to be National’s rallying cry and now risks serving as a reminder of how the party lost its way.
