David Cunliffe gave another speech today, which had a typically smart analogy:

If you want a garden to grow, then you have to dig the soil and plant the seeds. You have to feed and nurture the plants and you have deal to the weeds when they grow up amongst the crop.

According to Imperator Fish:

This translates to government taking a more active role in managing the economy, as governments do in Scandinavian countries.

In contrast, National’s hands-off approach towards the economy involves sitting on the fence and letting the weeds grow up. This means disaster for the nation long term.

But is Cunliffe being too smart?

But the weather can’t be controlled – what Cunliffe seems to be suggesting is trying to control a world wide economic storm by fiddling with more things locally.

Farmers know to avoid pissing into the wind.