Otago University students’ magazine Critic news reporter Zane Pocock has a profile of Labour leader David Shearer.
It concludes:
. . . and I have an old car which I’ve been renovating for the last 16 years. It soaks up money and doesn’t seem to get any better, but I drive it around as much as I can.” You can’t help but wonder if that was that a metaphor.
If you look at Labour’s policies last time it was in government, especially in its last term, they did soak up money but it’s hard to see how they made anything better.
David Shearer’s “old car that he has spent 16 years restoring” is in fact a 1957 MGA – a classic sports car. Given that Mr Shearer must have spent a good deal of his time overseas in the earlier part of the 16 years, and has presumably been busy with his political career more recently, I suppose it’s not unreasonable the restoration is ongoing – quite a common situation for classic restorations anyway! BTW, I’m no supporter of David Shearer at all – but I do like classic MGs.