NZ economic outlook looking dire after the election of this pro-business govt:
https://www.straitstimes.com/busines...nance-minister
Here's some advice: Instead of talking down NZ, how about talking up our advantages. The tone is set from the top.
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NZ economic outlook looking dire after the election of this pro-business govt:
https://www.straitstimes.com/busines...nance-minister
Here's some advice: Instead of talking down NZ, how about talking up our advantages. The tone is set from the top.
https://www.roymorgan.com/findings/9...-february-2024
No wonder the latest Roy Morgan poll have the coalition streaking ahead of the clueless left!
Reflecting what a bunch of lost souls Labour MPs really are.
Nothing arising from Labour’s retreat last week to plot their way out of the mess they are in.
They embraced the Greens and the Maori Party to see Labour’s votes haemorrhaging to those two. Ouch!
They screwed around with the tax structure (anything but give tax relief to taxpayers) and left themselves in no so man’s land. No wealth or CGT but remove GST on fruit and veges! How fxxked up can a party be!
They did a bonfire of Ardern’s policies and repudiated the first 5 years of their government’s policies. And they came out promising they had changed - for the worse as far as their traditional voting base is concerned.
They increased net debt from $5 billion to $100 billion but had nothing to show for the dot ding and increased debt. Well, a lot of fat cat consultants and 1,400 more civil servants!
They have light weight spokespeople like Ginny Andersen, Willie Jackson and Barbara Edmonds shooting themselves in the foot everytime they opened their big mouths!
Clueless!
Useless!
Hopeless!
I see it's from the PREFU report.
So both numbers are lower on that reporting basis.
Labour squandered a hell of a lot of money no doubt, but we also know that the Pandemic cost a hell of a lot in wage subsidies etc and the economy was kept going rather well for a time.
It's out the other side that the economy has really tanked and quite a bit of that is due to China's supply chain issues and their very slow and poor management of Covid and the other being interest rates. Labour's 2nd half response to the pandemic in hindsight was also poor. But hindsight is an easy judgment to make & NZ was also in competition with the rest of the world for the vaccines.
Spending by Labour was certainly out of control, but what really poured petrol on the debt bonfire was the sudden reduction in tax receipts, so not only was they spending more, the take was down as well. Double whammy.
"I would also like to acknowledge the leadership of former Prime Minister Dame Jacinda Ardern, who spoke for us all at that time and led New Zealand through those dark days so extremely well," Luxon said.
As much as the coalition is performing up to my expectations, I have no idea why Luxon is referring to Ardern with such admiration. I am sure the majority of coalition supporters do not agree
Well, though her government had lots of problems (lack of delivery a major one) I think Cindy was the right person at that time to deal with the fallout from the terrorost attack.
She has excellent interpersonal skills. Like all of us she was genuinely hurt by what happened and I think her sincerity and kindness during that time was very important.
I could not imagine Simon Bridges or Judith Collin’s providing comfort to the nation as a whole and the Islamic community specifically like Cindy did.
I can fault her on all sorts of things, but not that.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...D5CHADECZDG4Y/
NZ First leader Winston Peters compares co-governance to Nazi Germany, says promised tax cuts ‘not impossible’
Quote:
New Zealand First leader and Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters has compared Labour’s use of co-governance to “race-based theory”, as seen in Nazi Germany.
His comments, made today in a State of the Nation speech delivered in Palmerston North, have drawn warnings from the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand about the use of such terminology by politicians.
“It is actually offensive to the memory of those who died and to those who survived in the Holocaust to start throwing around terms like ‘holocaust’ or ‘Nazi’ willy-nilly,” Holocaust Centre of New Zealand spokesman Ben Kepes told NZME.
”Generally speaking, as we’ve seen society grow increasingly numb to inflammatory comments, people have to get more and more inflammatory in order to get an effect and so I think what we saw today was simply an example of the sort of breakdown of society.”
Asked after his speech by reporters what he thought New Zealand’s Jewish community would think of his comments, Peters said: “I think that they would understand entirely what I’m saying.”
Today’s speech was trademark Peters, closely resembling much of what he said during the election campaign, attacking the left, Labour in particular.
Whip them good Winston - they still sleeping ;)
Even the one under - who didn't make the Wedding or Political Honeymoon stage .. only managing a botched effort at badly screwing things up and is still seen spluttering & dithering around like a lost drunken dope ;)
Chippie - them gingernuts don't appear to be baked long enough just yet and then will likely be needing another long dunking:
Best stick with the 'burned to a crisp' rancid sausage rolls that you like best, but invariably result in frequent guts ache bouts and the odd dysentery attack which the media are expert in detecting coming from your direction ;)Quote:
Responding to Peters’ comments this afternoon, Labour leader Chris Hipkins compared Peters to a “drunk uncle at a wedding”.
Winston's large polished No. 8 has been busy :
Quote:
Peters said NZ First’s absence from Parliament during the 2020-2023 term was the chief reason the country had gone downhill.
“Without the handbrake, Labour cared more about feelings than the duty to competently govern our country,” he said.
Peters said the country couldn’t be fixed until its problems were acknowledged. He claimed Labour had left a “barrage of broken promises”, citing a “crumbling, underfunded health system”.
“We had three years of the dripping, self-righteous moral high-horse - where they were right and everyone else was wrong,” Peters said of Labour during its time as a majority government.
“The problem for Labour was that there were no ‘ends’ because they had no concept of where they were going - the hapless freight train ran out of tracks.”
That seems to be giving Labour what it deserves from the NZF perspective ;)
How's the other No.8 - Winston ? - being primed for some more follow up action ? :)
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political...-nation-speech
“I ruled out working with Winston Peters before the election. Every day that goes by I feel more and more vindicated by that decision”
I think Winnie already ruled you out Hipkins on account of him preferring to not work with minor parties!
Hee hee.