We have the sort of logic only the Prime Minister can use when she largely isn't on top of the subject she is talking about.

She tells us that farmers will benefit by leading the world once the Government's new "tax farmers more to save the world” scheme gets under way. Small news flash, we already lead the world.

It’s been a good trick. You create the problem, in this case farming emissions.

You then tell farmers you're going to tax them and farmers get upset. Farmers are lucky because they are the backbone economy so have political heft. So the Government pretends to acquiesce and say "okay no ETS for you, let's have a special plan, and you can tell us what it is."

Except it’s a con. What you want and what you get isn’t the same thing.

They pulled the same trick on Business New Zealand with Fair Pay Agreements.

Business New Zealand joined the group, made the submissions until, whoops, that’s no good count us out. But by that time it's too late.

Farmers wanted to set the levies for emissions, but guess who is going to do it now? The Climate Commission. Are the Climate Commission friends of the farmer? No, they are not. Are the Climate Commission climate zealots? Yes, they are.

Other problem, all this is based on modelling. Even James Shaw at the announcement admitted modelling isn't exact. Surely our experience through Covid proved that?

Even more problems, this has to be up by 2025. Will it be? No. Who says so? The Government. The architects of this mass tax thought bubble admit that the timing is tight. And this is a government that can't deliver pizza, far less a climate policy.

• Climate Change Minister seeks to clear up concerns with new emissions pricing scheme
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If that happens farmers will be folded into the ETS, the very thing they weren't being folded into from the start.

In really simple terms, we take the golden goose of the economy, charge it more, and theoretically save the world. It's a farce. As our costs go up, and we produce less, someone fills the gap, it's called market economics.

The Government doesn’t understand that bit and perhaps more dangerously, they don’t want to.

They don't like farmers or farming. They have been after them for the past five years and treat them like idiots and enviro-terrorists. The fact they are the best in the world never seems to have mattered.

If the Labour Party get a single vote out of rural New Zealand next year, I'll be astounded.