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Clark proposes mini-budget in December News - Yahoo!Xtra News

Prime minister Helen Clark says a Labour government would present a mini-budget in December to deal with the effects of the international financial crisis.

"It's obviously affected the kind of policies we are going into the election with," she said today on TV One's Breakfast programme.

"We're not looking to cut overall government spending but we have to look very carefully where we direct it."

                           

NX-Files needs help understanding the quotes above.  December is only a couple of months off.  So they're going to come up with and campaign on a bunch of policies.... then once in power enact a completely different agenda to combat the international financial crisis.  Why not just campaign on what you intend to do in your mini-budget?