Andrew Bolt: Anthony Albanese’s Labor already proving it can’t keep a promise

The Albanese government is just one week old, but Labor is already dumping promises it could never keep.

Feel like you were lied to?

Just one week old, but this Albanese Labor government is already dumping promises it could never keep.

Here’s one from just a couple of weeks ago.

Journalist: “You said that you don’t want people to go backwards. Does that mean that you would support a wage hike of 5.1 per cent just to keep up with inflation?

Anthony Albanese: “Absolutely”.

In fact, Albanese, now Prime Minister, even waved a dollar coin to show how insignificant a 5.1 per cent wage rise was. So vote Labor!

But days after winning the election, Albanese has “absolutely” not nominated a 5.1 per cent hike to the minimum wage in his government’s submission to the umpire, Fair Work Australia.

How could he? This country faces a financial crunch – maybe even recession – and even Labor cannot now risk setting off a wage-price spiral.

On Sunday, Labor prepared another backtrack.

New Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Picture John Grainger

Two weeks before election day, Albanese again falsely claimed the Liberals had cut spending to the National Disability Insurance Scheme, when in fact its budget has exploded.

Albanese made a vow: “Labor is putting additional funding into health, education and the NDIS”.

But now his finance minister, Katy Gallagher, says the time for “fiscal discipline is here” because “the real challenges that are coming our way in defence, health aged care and NDIS are substantial”.

Before the election, Gallagher promised to spend $8bn more than even the Liberals.

Now she saying Labor will cut spending in a budget in October.

Labor cannot pretend the economy is suddenly worse than it thought a week ago.

The Charter of Budget Honesty stops governments from cooking the books before an election, and our financial strife was obvious.

No, Labor simply conned voters by making promises it could never keep.

But now it’s about to be hit with a truck called Cost of Living.

Supermarket prices are soaring.

Petrol costs a bomb, even with a temporary halving of the petrol excise.

Electricity prices are jumping by up to 18 per cent in NSW.

Interest rates will rise for the next two years.

Inflation from overseas will hurt us.

So here’s one more promise Labor cannot keep: to slash our emissions even harder, putting even more pressure on coal-fired power stations to close and leave us short of electricity.

You thought a vote for Labor was a vote for green power, fewer floods, higher wages and more handouts?

Too easy to fool.