No doubt the current Labour government contributed to inflation and the coming recession both with their huge minimum wage rises as well as with an unrestrained spending spree, but so did all other governments on this globe (even if some choose different methods to pump up inflation) ... and lets face it - the right wing Tories did bring Britain into a much bigger mess than the centre left government we have in NZ. Look at their two digit inflation rate and economic troubles.
Not sure whether it is helpful to blame the government for all woes of life ... it just makes legit criticism so much harder to believe.