This isn’t truly a proper reason for choosing to scrap the plan though. He should be getting a message across about how his party is NOT going to ‘waste’ it instead of simply laying blame.
But then, this is what every political party does though - they lay blame solely on the other party just to get votes, but really never tackle any problem head on, or provide any workable plan to solve the original problem. Every party simply plays a game of ‘cat and mouse…’