So what have we had instead of new ideas about housing? Well, this week, we have had the shameful spectacle of the Prime Minister playing the blame game. First, it's National's fault, then it's foreigners—because foreigners were investing too much in the housing market, apparently—then it's people with Chinese-sounding names, and, actually, this week we've learnt that the public should bear responsibility for the housing crisis because they didn't like Labour's tax plan. Well, this is not the attitude that the people I speak to want to see in a newly elected Government. What they want to see from a newly elected Government is fresh thinking, a sense of responsibility for constructively addressing this major challenge, and what they don't want to see is a Government that whenever faced with the question of housing, thinks this is an excuse for another sneaky new tax. That is absolutely not what Labour were elected to do. 