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No one has sold more assets than Phil Goff

by Whaleoil on November 1, 2011

Phil Goff was stupid to decide to fight the election on asset sales given his own record. Even last night he was going on about it, again:

Mr Goff stuck to message more closely – saying that the biggest mistake from his time in politics was selling state assets, something he learned from.

“John Key, you haven’t learned that.”

John Key hasn’t learned that because he has never sold a state asset unlike Phil Goff who has sold 17 assets that sold for $9,490,000,000. If anyone knows in great detail about asset sales it is Phil Goff.

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  • guest

    Hence why he admitted to asset sales as being a mistake he has made as politician in yesterdays debate, which he has now learn’t from and National has not

    • Sars

      National’s proposal is nothing like Labour-of-old’s asset sales. The mixed ownership model has already proved successful with Air New Zealand and a quick look at the companies office website shows that 6 of the top 10 shareholders in Air New Zealand are based in NZ and the remaining four are based in Australia. On top of that, 8 out of the 10 are institutional investors: http://www.business.govt.nz/companies/app/ui/pages/companies/104799/shareholdings?backurl=%2Fcompanies%2Fapp%2Fui%2Fpages%2Fcompanies%2Fsearch%3Fmode%3Dstandard%26type%3Dentities%26q%3Dair%2520new%2520zealand

      What evidence does anyone have to suggest that this wouldn’t be the case with the mixed ownership model of other assets?

  • Jester

    So it took him 6 years to realise his mistake?

    Hardly inspiring, (although admittedly he probably slept through the last 3 years).

    • sthnjeff

      More like 20 years Jester

  • thor42

    The Nats should be pushing this info all over the place. 
    “No-asset-sales Goof” who has sold more assets than anyone. The hypocrisy is breathtaking. 

    • anonymouse

      but, it just means that he has learnt from his mistakes in the time helen clark was boss.

  • kayaker

    JK/National are on the button about partial sale of assets. The mixed ownership model has been proven.  PG keeps banging on about it, but it’s not the sale of assets that’s the issue it’s how they go about the sale of assets.  Those assets are aging, heading for diminishing returns which, ultimately, mean more has to be spent on them to upgrade.  Better to partially sell them and fund new investments which will give a longer term return.

  • anonymouse

    seriously biased, but it is true that phil goff did sell assets. however, it shows that john key isn’t learning from phil’s mistakes and phil goff has…

  • madman

    ummm no one has sold more assets? come on….. bit far fetched dont ya rekon?