Labour-lite back down. Again.

Yesterday I described National's health discussion document as timid. "With so little to get excited about," I said, "no wonder attention focussed instead on National's so-called secret plans to remove the cap on GPs' fees, a necessary but insufficient lifting of a restriction that should never have been imposed in the first place."

Today, words like simpering and spineless might be better descriptions of John Boy's Labour-lite and Phony Tony, his health spokesthing: they've already backed down on the "secret" proposal to loosen the leash even just a little bit on GPs.

Pathetic. One would say they lack the courage of their convictions -- if they had any.

Said Colin Espiner the other day,

There have been too many “me-too” responses from the Opposition lately, on everything from KiwiSaver to foreign policy to nuclear energy to climate change. Sooner or later, it has got to come up with some policy of its own. Preferably policy that differs from that of the Government.

Looks like "later," if ever. It's looking more and more like the epithet "hollow men" was used one leadership regime too early.