Frankly at the moment, I would argue that ideology is irrelevant and the ability to actually do something, anything that a party promises is more important than whatever they are promising.

Take West Auckland for example. Has seen plans scaled back from Light Rail by 2028 to 'Light Rail sometime' to 'Not sure if it'll be light rail eventually but you'll get a busway' to 'you're getting some bus lanes' to 'your bus lanes have been delayed two years and we're not building anything else before 2030 at best'. 

The Westgate precint has also just been included in the high-rise development changes. So that's next to the transport corridor the current government wanted to build but just quietly backs away from.

What is National's proposal? Who knows, because they don't care. I can only assume it is to avoid embarrassment for having selected Jake Bezzant for the area and not wanting to pretend Bennett used to have an iron-grip over it, so it's easier to pretend it doesn't exist.

End result for voters: No infrastructure, no accountability, no change, country stagnates and living standards go backwards. If it wasn't for Chris Penk National would be almost invisible in Auckland.