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One progressive step taken by the Labor government is introduction of Kiwi saver. Thanks to it I am owning my first home. It's also going to help me to save some money for my retirement or paying off remaining mortgage.
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/...v67n4p113.html
“Saving for Retirement
KiwiSaver was introduced to help New Zealanders save more for retirement. In March 2007, Finance Minister Michael Cullen stated that New Zealanders have one of the lowest household savings rates among the developed countries. Cullen (2007a) cited the New Zealand Reserve Bank estimates of current household savings rate at negative 17.5 percent. A March 2007 New Zealand Treasury study concluded that about 20 percent of the population aged 45–64 needs to save more for retirement, including about 9 percent of individuals and 13 percent of couples aged 55–65 (Hosking 2007)”
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/kiri-a...HMYYUGDHOTQDI/
Kiri Allan trial: May court date set for judge-alone trial after driving incident
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She also spoke about the difficulty of having to publicly support a tougher stance on youth offenders, a rhetorical shift after Hipkins took over as prime minister from Jacinda Ardern.
Unquestionably Kiwisaver is one of the best policies that any NZ government has implemented.
Many of us did not need it though to buy our first home and save for our retirement - this is where NZ education and economic settings have failed dismally to prepare most young NZers to save and invest properly.
Another Labour MP bites the dust :
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/labo...NXXOUOZJ6NFNI/
Meanwhile, Hipkins and Labour are all at sea after getting thrashed and kicked out last year :
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/labo...NXXOUOZJ6NFNI/
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As he took what is probably the first real holiday of his adult life, Labour leader Chris Hipkins may have felt an unfamiliar feeling: irrelevance.
Labour argued themselves into a corner on Māori policy last term. The party became a price-taker when it comes to Māori policy
Labour allowed Te Pāti Māori to be the arbiter of the ideal of Māori policy, the price-maker. Te Pāti Māori forced Labour to assume humbling position of offering a watered-down and electable version of whatever its small, nimble cousin can offer. Labour seemed not to understand that any party that got into a bidding war with Te Pāti Māori on Māori-related policy would lose.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/e...OOCNXN45SI.jpg
A mistake in the Herald story re Tirikatene.
Shanon Halbert is his replacement as McLellan is replacing Kelvin Davis.
From 1957- late 80's the average house price was 2 - 3x the average household income,
it's now over 10x the median household disposable income.
The average house (on a full section ) value in NZ was just $25,500 in December 1980.
Back in 1980, the starting salary out of school for even the most basic job was around $16,- $17,000 year.
This may help...
A maximum DTI of 6x = the borrowers' total debt being no higher than 6 x Gross Income. DTI will be used to determine serviceability of the lending.
Whereas, measuring house prices ("Value") compared to household income, at say 10x, is just saying that the TOTAL value of the house (equity + debt) is 10x household income.
Your glee jumps right off the pages!
Wasn't talking about minimum wage, but happy to be corrected, average wage in 1979 was $8,164 but had soared to just under $15,000 by the early 80's.
Was just remembering my own experience, though coming out of uni, my first full time job didn't require a Degree with a starting salary of just over $15,000. Didn't seem that special or unusual.
Back in those days, there wasn't the huge differences in pay that we see today.
Anyway the point was, it was a hell of a lot easier to buy a house in those days than it is today.
Ok just out of interest here's a comparison of the, Top of Scale rate - which is what most were paid and was the basic rate for the job, salary for a secondary school teacher (admittedly higher than the ave wage but offers a good comparison ) versus house prices.
Teacher's salaries -
10 Nov 1980. $20,888
" 1981 $23,950
" 1985. $34,156
December 1987. $39,105
versus average NZ house price 1980 = $25,500
1987 = $88,900
A teacher in those days could easily afford a house, not so easy today.
https://www.ppta.org.nz/advice-and-i...-2024/showall/
You really are a desperate person. To support your argument, you pick teachers salaries for a period where they have fallen from being well paid to badly paid.
In the period you have picked, teachers have gone from equal starting salary to MPs (for example) to less than 1/3.
As others have pointed out, you’re simply wrong.
To be expected from woke leftist losers like BS - caught out just like when Ardern used to get caught out with her lies and bs, they try to spin and change the narrative away from their initial bullshxt.
They still have not woken up to the reality that the country has wised up to them.
That's a very strange & personal response.
What I'm saying is back in the 80's, houses were far more affordable & within reach of someone like say a teacher than they are today.
That was true in 1980, and was also still true in 1987 even though house prices had risen as I've shown.
How is that 'wrong' ?
Look at the basic salary of a teacher today, versus today's average house price if you don't believe me.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...NV2S7QYPXNQG4/
Labour’s foreign affairs spokesman David Parker contemplates China
Nosey Parker pops his Head up for a speil
May your little affair with Foreign Affairs in the shade bring you years of peaceful dreaming under your chair :)
Many may question what value if anything the taxpayer & public are likely to see out of it - Comrade ;)
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...F2WJZ45LKL3OM/
China Evergrande property developer ordered to liquidate after it failed to reach debt deal
Large enough for size - seeing as one of NZ's Supermarkets hated by the Labour deadbeats has come out with a major write down & loss of value .. another hopeless baseless Labour witch hunt ;)
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...LGD6YJQGJEAQU/
Woolworths slashes 70 per cent from New Zealand supermarkets’ value
At least another 4 terms ahead in the shade - Nosey Parker - perhaps long enough for you to develop a plan to tax Chinese from afar from your little bunker ? ;)
Let's face it - no-one is going to exactly miss any of the malcontents from the last 6 year Labour / Green coalition excuse any time soon ;)
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...M6HL3FROH5EGE/
Parnell Business Association complains about criminal behaviour by Kāinga Ora tenants, agency hits back
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Parnell businesses have complained about tenants from state housing agency Kāinga Ora committing criminal behaviour, citing robberies, intimidation and wilful damage.
But the Crown agency says it is up to the police and justice system to deal with incidents of crime and that it hasn’t had any complaints from the local business lobby group.
Cheryl Adamson, Parnell Business Association general manager, said her group had become so exasperated it had complained to ex-Prime Minister Sir Bill English, who is leading a Government inquiry into the Crown agency, and written to Housing Minister Chris Bishop, expressing concern about the lack of on-site management in at least two blocks.
Businesses in the Parnell area had suffered from the actions of tenants at the Cracroft and Bedford apartments in particular, she said.
“This includes break-ins, unruly behaviour, wilful damage, police hunts and even a power control room break-in. The list goes on,” she said today.
But John Tubberty, Kāinga Ora’s Auckland central and east regional director, said allegations of criminal wrongdoing were a matter for police to investigate.
Yet more bad sh&t going on out of the Past Clueless Govt's reign .. Ram Raiders - Gangs - Drugs - you name it -
all unmanaged by Labour and allowed to go running wild ;)
And Labour / Greens wonder why they got emptied out ;)
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/oranga...JYGVQD7MPX2HE/
Oranga Tamariki report shows more children harmed in its care
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...NNC6A5CQI2KDE/
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A highly confidential Cabinet paper relating to the repeal of fair pay agreements was leaked by accident to a union representative by an Oranga Tamariki staffer, an investigation has found.
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Chhour’s statement said the union source who received the document had assured Oranga Tamariki that the email was deleted.
The Herald has asked for further clarification on how it was leaked to media if the email was deleted.
“I have been assured by Oranga Tamariki chief executive Chappie Te Kani that the person responsible has been spoken to,” Chhour said.
Yet another frigging disaster sleepwalking it's way out of the Last Govt's unmanaged reign of a clueless shambles ;)
How is the Chief Executive still in his job ? Shouldn't he be down the road on this & the OT chapters of past failures ?;)
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...PA4NSIOMFZKA4/
90-year-old retailer Godfreys enters voluntary administration
Sorry Suckers - another one bites the dust
A bit of the Left's deferred Coviditis symptoms and crashing the Economy they are saying is the cause:
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Allen said the business was still suffering from the disruptions of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Like many retailers, we have been heavily impacted by consumer confidence and spending due to the economic era of high inflation, rising interest rates, and intense cost of living pressures,” Allen said.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...JSSKPWVBK6CQE/
Labour uses GIF of influencer Andrew Tate charged with rape, human trafficking to endorse Instagram post
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Labour has admitted to an error in using a GIF of divisive influencer Andrew Tate - a man charged with rape and human trafficking - to endorse a post on one of the party’s Instagram accounts.
The post, a reel, was put up on the Labour Māori caucus’ account last week. It featured a screenshot of a 1News article about Labour leader Chris Hipkins’ comments at Rātana.
It was complemented with a GIF, an animated image, of Tate accompanied by the word “Correct!”.
What a pack of clueless spinning numbskulls ;)
Meanwhile, Ardern continues to sap taxpayers' funds to promote brand Ardern :
https://marcspring.com/index.php/202...acinda-ardern/
https://marcspring.com/wp-content/up...107-scaled.jpg
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...IXKHFR2IXBR7E/
NZ tax system is fairer than you think despite big earners rorting top rate, rejected report finds
Guess when this was produced & who it was that produced it ? ;)
You do realise that there are many people on the political right who also believe fairness (access to the law, health or education) is a goal worth actively pursuing.
Sure it is a truism that just about every action and inaction has unintended consequences of some type and degree of impact.
From the rbnz inflation calculator:
*Since 2nd quarter 1981 wages have gone up 564%. However net after tax wages have probably gone up by less because of bracket creep.
*Housing costs have gone up a whopping 2203%.
I think continued further divergence of housing costs from after tax wage increases cannot continue for long.
Have deposit percentages dropped materially? Have the difference in interest rates been that great?
So, fewer single income households must be buying their first home. More Help from rich parents above the inflation rate since 1981? More incomes in general needed to buy the first home?
https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/monetary-po...ion-calculator
Who bought Sir John Key's house?
There's the answer.
Labour banned foreign buyers from buying NZ properties from 2018.
Property prices rose by 53% from $694,133 in 2019 to $1,063,765 in 2021 - the fastest rise in property prices in 3 years according to QV NZ.
You are a fxxking arsehole, panda-nz for trying to stir up anti-Asian sentiment. Go fxxked yourself before you write that kind of racist crap again.
Rather than the RBNZ remit, the poor pension legislation and provision, and the prevailing fiscal and monetary environment?
BTW I read that The Ex-Key house remained unoccupied and was sold for a good profit (based on rumour as the sale price remained undisclosed) six years later last year. I guess that sums up what the NZ housing market has become.
Much of what happened to the Key mansion may just be rumour. Has anyone got the facts?
Priority, BS - borrowing money to invest may make sense to you just as Robertson borrowed $90 billion to pxss down the gutters in wasteful and reckless government spending.
Government money should always go into education, health and infrastructure as a matter of priority.
Something that woke leftists like you have no understanding - money grows on trees as far as Ardern, Hipkins, Robertson and you are concerned.
At the time, in the early stages, they were paying higher interest to borrow money than what the contributions would have earned. However they should have restarted at some point. Remember what the funds purpose is though.
Who says it was a loss of $20 billion? Is it just a number you have dreamed up or has someone already quantified it.
Yes its just a figure I dreamed up!
Don't be daft, it was widely reported across RNZ, Interest.co.nz, NZ Herald, Stuff etc if you follow any of them?
The Point I was making though, is the sheer futility of rehashing over & over again, previous govt's flaws which have already been covered in hundreds of posts & cartoons, every time someone posts an issue about the current govt.
Reminds me of the old school days & the irritating schoolboy never taking responsibility, always whining, but Sir he started it.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/ind...-fund-billions
Huge assumption that SuperFund would have invested the additional funds (from borrowings and debts) successfully.
And of course leftists like you would love for us to forget what kind of government Labour was for the last 6 years, wouldn’t you? Useless, incompetent, spendthrift and without any integrity.
Well, not a chance because NZers need to be reminded not to trust Labour ever again with the reins of power so that they can ruin NZ ever more than they had.
Apologies for that post. Actually it seems it was incorrect. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/sir-jo...MRPEB37I6CL64/
The subsequent owner took quite a bath on the subsequent resale price. The Chinese businessman must have made his money somehow - but certainly not on Key's former property by the sounds of it.
The $20 billion was not lost. It is just wasn't put in the fund. It was either not borrowed or any borrowed allocated elsewhere for the benefit of taxpayers.
https://nzsuperfund.nz/assets/Upload...t-May-2022.pdf
You are back to your Ardern inspired and indoctrinated spin and BS.
$20 billion lost/better off?
The number in the article you posted is $17.8 billion according to the FUND but $7.8 billion after taking off debt of $10 billion.
100,000 Kiwibuild homes again? 12,000 new houses built by Labour in 6 years? Spin, BS, lies and more lies.
It's 2024, Ardern & Hipkins & Labour have been turfed out for all the BS, incompetence and lies of theirs in the last 6 years.
Isn't it time you wake up and get real?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...LQXSR4AKJA53I/
Buyer for insolvent Ruapehu Alpine Lifts’ main skifield walks away
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No other takers or not insolvent enough for some who bow to the Mountain Gods in hope of dealing to
the DOC paper shufflers and pointy noses ? ;)
Probably yet another example of collateral damage left in tatters courtesy of Labour's Ardern/Robertson dreamworld ;)
Beats encouragement the reverse way from the Labour No-Hopers in the form of tax anything left standing hard
to fill a gap & fund more mindless squandering & unproductive dribble and send things further down the dunny ;)
Six years of F-All to show for the last Labour / Greens reign & the economy in tatters on the way downhill .. God knows what a further term of that mob would have brought on all kiwis now ;)
Where's your mate Robbo hiding now ? .. Not a squeak out of him .. things must have been worse than desolate and heading further down ;)
It might have been a hard lesson - only being able to gut the Central Bank wholesale just once & then there's nothing left to try again without putting it back ;)
That's what happens when a Govt guts the economy & has no answers & very few further options other than to plunder & inflict more pain to cover for their own incompetence ..
Bl**dy taxes & hiked Fuel Levies etc etc coming out everyone's ears and an economy in freefall worse than Argentina's .. COL heading off the Wall & likely a Labour Govt tone deaf to the screams (A repeat of closing year of Clark's terms likely when ignore became the only response from Govt) that's likely what the Comrades had in store for this term before they got booted ;)
Fortunately the majority of Kiwi's didn't want a bar of Labour's looming peasant class existence on the way and decided we were better than what was very likely coming under the Clueless Labour / Green Duo ;)
Undoubtedly, the Party faithful must have thought it was party time .. but alas even that comes to a screeching halt sooner or later .. like the recent Party on Woolies until that got discovered :
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/everyd...GTGFPES564FTE/
Time for a few deep breaths. They don't owe Panda in particular an explanation and he didn't demand one. I don't think he can be fairly accused of believing he is special.
It seems to be quite reasonable to note that there has been no explanation of how they are to be funded, because in the absence of appropriate provision, tax cuts are inflationary.
You say they will be funded by controlled spending. It is also reasonable to ask what services wil be cut as spending is controlled.
Do you know?
Tax cuts are inflationary while rampant government wasteful spending is not? The last 3 years must have showed you what happens when an economic illiterate government (Ardern, Hipkins, Robertson & Maori cabal) splashes money like it is free.
Did you ever question Labour how it was funding its rampant wasteful inflationary spending?
If you did, show us and then, you may qualify to ask the above.
The Government does not have explain the details of everything they intend doing. They are certain they can work with the tax rate change so that is all the public needs to know. By not adjusting the brackets we have been ripped of for years. The USA adjust theirs every year. Finally we are moving ahead which is the opposite direction from where we would have gone with last bunch of morons.
The $14.6 Billion the govt has to find from somewhere for tax cuts is massive & it's recognised they are not going to find meaningful savings from anywhere else than cuts to the 3 big govt expenditures, Education, Health or Social Services.
To suggest controlled spending will cover the cost of tax cuts is politically naive, in that this would be a 1 term govt if it slashed $14.6 billion out of the budgets of Education, Health or Social services which are all crying out for more funding. e.g. PHARMAC needs an extra $400 million per year than what they get now - just to catch up with Australia or the UK, Education needs way more funding for new schools, classrooms, teachers, truancy services etc. benefits can't be reduced any further. ACT has promised to build new prisons as more people are going to prison with 3 strikes and stronger sentencing ,less home detentions.
The police Assoc are demanding a 30% pay rise to stop them leaving for Australia, & there's funding for 500 new police in next 2 years to keep our streets safe.
Auckland needs a new harbour crossing, the roads around the country are full of potholes, water infrastructure is crumbling, the Cook Strait ferries need replacing, we need to build new prisons to house the increased prison population this govt has promised plus extra staff needed, there's still so much cyclone damage to be paid for, the list is endless.
And what if/when we have another major event, another cyclone or what keeps some senior people in govt awake at night - another major earthquake cutting off a city like Wellington.
It's better to be realistic, there's no way in a million years the govt can afford these tax cuts while at the same time delivering what everyone can see the country desperately needs.
They were a straight-out election bribe.
For some, facing reality is just too difficult, but this govt just like the last will over promise & under deliver if it even lasts a full term.
Already we're seeing the next Deputy PM Seymour, seriously undermining Luxon, telling us not to believe/trust the PM's assurances, saying the PM lost his nerve at Waitangi, he got spooked, he'll change his mind etc.
Incredible!
Gawd sakes are we at primary school in the playground?
The name calling and BS comments from both sides is ridiculous.
Balance being the bully ring leader as usual.
Grow up man! It really is pathetic.
You remind me of Cameron Slater & I guarantee you, that isn't a compliment.
After 6 years of Labour under Clueless Cindy & Hapless Hipkins, this is what buying a first home is now about :
https://www.stuff.co.nz/money/350179...re-rich-people
Buying houses has become something only rich people do, one economist says, and it will take a combination of efforts to help fix the country’s housing issues.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/thousa...O7VBYYJTNU7HQ/
Thousands of New Zealanders being contacted after personal details leaked in Covid-19 data breach
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Te Whatu Ora is contacting 12,000 New Zealanders, some of whom worked as Covid-19 vaccinators, after their personal information was found to have been released in a data leak.
Chief executive Margie Apa said the information was made available on a downloadable file which was leaked to a US blogsite.
Former Te Whatu Ora employee Barry Young was arrested in December and charged with dishonestly taking health agency data and spreading it online. He pleaded not guilty and will reappear in court on February 23.
Apa said today the process of contacting every person who was affected had begun and while 12,000 have been identified so far, the number could continue to rise.
Yet more carnage coming out of Labour's Te Whatu Incompetent Empire Building Ph*ck Up orchestrated under Little's overseeing the NZ Health "They are Managing" not very well shambles ;)
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/beggar...G3ZKN2NZSS7PQ/
Beggar groups travel to Rotorua to make up to $400 a day from ‘generous’ locals
must be some serious fast coin to be made in RotoBeggarCentral now ;)
Thanks Labour - but how many are paying tax on their Begging efforts ? :)
It almost makes the Beggars "Wealthy Pr!cks" as Labour referred to some sections of society & Non Taxpaying ones at that ;)
How could that silly Nosey Parker comrade have missed all this untaxed wealth being syphoned probably under Labour's noses too ? ;)
No body is 100% perfect. I think former top politicians like Helen clerk, Bill English, John key, Jacinda Arden, Chris Hipkins and Michael Cullen had good managing skills in their specialised areas and in few other areas.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350...dy-hell-are-ya
Labour, where the bloody hell are ya?
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ANALYSIS: Yo, Labour Party! You literally have one job.
So where the bloody hell are ya?
Sure, it was a bruising drubbing on election night and sure, we get that you’re now grappling with a kind of existential ‘who the bloody hell are ya?’ question but for goodness sake, walk and chew gum at the same time people.
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Eight press releases. Eight.
That’s all the Labour Party has released all year.
Compare that to the same period last year from National when they were in opposition - they’d released 33 press releases by now.
And before you go yelling about apples and oranges, cast back further to Jan-Feb 2021 when National MPs were licking their wounds from an even more severe electoral defeat in 2020.
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Productive even when down and out, National put out 43 press releases in the same 2021 period in which Labour released eight.
So low is Labour’s public output that Stuff recently messaged their press team just double checking they hadn’t accidentally been dropped off the email distribution list.
What’s worse for Labour is that none of the eight releases have come from the actual Leader of the Opposition, Chris Hipkins.
Hipkins is making himself available in most of the usual ways, he’s present for the set piece media opportunities at parliament every week and shows up to question the Prime Minister at question time in the House.
Are what's left of Labour all still on holiday even now & all on full pay being shelled out from the coffers for this dismal performance ?
How's the hunt for a new Day Job going - Chipster ?
No joy or no-one want to know - not even the UN ? ;)
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...OYSDC72F7A52I/
‘Absolute nonsense’: Chris Hipkins slams Christopher Luxon’s $200b hole claim
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Hipkins said there was no hole in the plan, saying the former Government had been “very clear that as every Government has been, that [the plan] gets funded successively in three-year plans”.
The same humungous Transport hole that Labour were going to dump untold road taxes etc on all to cover ? ;)
What a silly disconnected spinning little twit ;)
It sounds very correct that Labour had orchestrated a Huge Financial hole with few options going ahead when this sort of thing comes out & the expected denials. What was Parker proposing before he got his cakehole jammed shut in a hurry before the election ? ;)
No wonder NZ Inc dumped Hipkins & Labour on seeing what was coming after chapters of incompetence ;)
The things you regularly tear into Labour for, are exactly the same things National have been guilty of.
Prior to the election just about every economist said National's numbers don't add up, they can't fund all the promises, & give tax cuts, but the great unwashed ignored the economists, instead eagerly swallowed the bait & now we're witnessing Luxon & Willis hard out back peddling, preparing voters to accept they won't be able to keep their promises.
e.g. the last National govt took exactly the same approach to funding land transport projects, & every govt before them for decades.
When Stephen Joyce made a list of projects during the last National govt, there was no detail on how they would be funded past the first few years either, just the same as Labour.
The $200 billion hole Luxon's talking about is funding for like to have projects way into the future.
Do you really think this coalition govt will not make its own plans for projects in the future which have all the details of how they will be funded already sorted!
Remember the advice about throwing stones in glasshouses.
Here's to all the Ardern's devotees :
Ardern in the USA: Harvard's Kennedy School should be using her as a Case Study of the Dangers of Charisma
Having left Kiwis the legacy of a cost-of-living crisis, falling education standards for our poorest children & racial division, former PM Ardern is now shacked up in the Kennedy School at Harvard University, enjoying the pleasures of being on the receiving end of the University's $US 60 billion endowment. She recently gave a rousing speech there, saying the secret to great government policy is to "bring in the public". Did the out-of-touch Harvard folks not hear about the landslide defeat her Labour Party just suffered because it was hard to find anyone she brought with her? Nearly every policy she enacted has been reversed these past months because the public slam-dunk rejected them.
Ardern frequently attacked the 1980s market reforms of Roger Douglas, Richard Prebble & company, saying they had not brought in the public & were a disaster. Yet those reforms, be it an independent Central Bank, lower personal income tax rates, GST, elimination of farmer subsidies, floating dollar & more, are still in place 40 years later - whereas it's hard to find a single Ardern "reform" still there one year after she left office. Her government turned the vaccinated against the unvaccinated; Māori against non-Māori; rich against poor; farmer against environmentalist. Her motto became "divide & conquer"; not "bring in the public". Big Media are desperate to paint Luxon, Seymour & Peters as dividers. But we, the people, know the truth. The seeds of division were laid and cultivated by Ardern.
Harvard's Kennedy School of blah-blah should be ashamed of itself for becoming a place that jumps on bubbles, even after they've burst, where the faculty hire former politicians whose partisan views align with their own. Its seminars now resemble group therapy sessions, lacking in academic integrity. The School is not searching for the truth, which is meant to be the ethos of a university. So what was the lesson of Ardern's time in politics? She was perhaps the most charismatic leader NZ has ever known - a Case Study of a long line of world politicians who've led their country to ruin yet for a time were wildly embraced by the public due to their charisma. She relied on (terrible) advice & saw her job as "selling it to the public", which she did with extraordinary talent. But that advice led to never-ending lockdowns even after most of our population were vaccinated (because Prof. Michael Baker advised elimination was "sustainable"), spiraling debt, more monopolies, unaffordable prices and inflation. Ardern gained personal mojo & success - yet cost the nation its mojo & success. We must regain it fast and get back to where we once belonged.
Opinion of :
Professor Robert MacCulloch holds the Matthew S. Abel Chair of Macroeconomics at Auckland University. He has previously worked at the Reserve Bank, Oxford University, and the London School of Economics.
Latest TV1 Poll :
National 38% +1%
Labour 28%
Greens 12% -2%
ACT 8% -1%
NZF 6%
TMP 4% +2%
TOP 2%
And here's big move :
Hapless Hipkins 15% (down 10%)
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/c...pg?format=500w
National is 38%.
There are always those who will support Labour no matter what.
Just like there are those who will support National no matter what.
No objectivity - just wedded to the Party and, in some cases, confuse their own identity with the chosen party.
When this happens, objective and rational thought is not possible and they will clutch at anything to defend their identity (the Party) no matter how ridiculous they sound and appear to everyone else.
They've moved on though, you'll notice that none of them defend the failed Labour policies, most of them never even tried to, they have shifted now to attacking the coalition policies, as all good oppositions should. Pity Labour themselves haven't found their voice yet.
Time has proven that the Labour policies, and fortunately (absurdly) their abject inability to implement most of them just sustained the disfunction, but perversely wasted untold billions of taxpayer $ in trying to doing so.
This monumental Labour mess is going to take a herculean effort to fix up, some of it might not even be fixable in the 3 year term of government. Hopefully the lessons of being duped by Labour and some wins from the coalition, will secure at least a second term for the incumbents.
Good points.
If the NZ public put Labour back in power at the next election then we, as a country, deserve everything we get.
It would be shocking.
Provided the current coalition don’t do anything too nutty in the next couple of years I would think they are virtually guaranteed a second term after what Labour did the previous 6 years.
Labour will be forgiven in time - but I think they will need sit in opposition for at least one more term if not more.
National only won because of the 20 bucks a week and Winston.