NZs financial position is much better than it was five years ago, hence the credit rating upgrade to AA+.
NZ super fund up $20b since 2017. :)
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Labour Party & Ardern ‘spend & tax’ policy as explained to a 12 year old :
“You wash & clean your neighbour’s driveway for $20.
Your neighbour gives you $8
and
gives the balance, $12 to the kid in the opposite house
who is sunning himself on the beach.’
Ardern's government 2022 Budget - You saw it here first :
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/c...g?format=2500w
In reality both kids have a job now whereas they couldn't get one under national.
Another day, another example of how the Ardern government favours gangs and criminals over law abiding citizens:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300...ts-from-tenant
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/128...social-housing
Landlord refused by almost every insurer after leasing flats for social housing
Suppose Farfoi will be installing Labour's own insurance scheme instead soon to step into the gap :)
It will probably be called "Robbo's Social Housing Dead Loss Fund" and will be another ACC administered SOE ;)
(All Landlords will be levied for the costs of administering and all estimated Losses of the Fund)
One of the kids when not at the beach has a night job on Ram Raiding duties and helping his Gang mates distribute a few other "essential lines" around the area ;)
Since Ardern's well spun policies to help the poor and bring untold prosperity to all have so far mostly
failed to materialise, these were the only jobs going he was qualified for - to stay on the bene collection list :)
Ardern's government 2022 Budget - You saw it here first :
A whole fleet may be needed next year -- could even surpass one of Putin's large fleets :)
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:scared:........found on HC, Aussies taking the p1ss?
Remember the hidden GST hike.. how much inflation did that cause.
Very minimal compared with Robbo's recent efforts :)
When the man on the street starts screaming on large increases in tucker + fuel - then you know Labour have
a major problem - which Wage increases will not fix (similar to what is happening in Aussie)
No increases or decreases in Taxes or GST or any new taxes will fix the issue either.
The current Government have already dug themselves into a very deep ditch which is becoming all
the more evident to most Kiwis :)
We know what ignoring the screams towards end of the Clark / Cullen terms culminated in :)
Simply dont use petrol then.. EV, public transport, electric or mechanical bike.
Inflation is global issue out of Support during Covid in many places.
But are any others so glowingly obvious as having borrowed the whole fund
rather than using retained reserves - which we must assume NZ either didn't
have, or Robbo couldn't have known how to lay a paw on them for the cause
if they existed at all ? :)
The same Joe Bloggs that Ardern's promised policy mission was to improve his lot
now appears to be being left abandoned and ignored lumping the consequences
of the mishap at the lower etchelons :)
Perhaps a matter of too good to be true should have been heeded far earlier ? ;)
Or a fast buck handed out will usually come back to bite very dearly later
(probably the usual Labour Operandus MO too :) )
Yeah but there's not an election this year.. it's next year.
Is nothing sacrosanct anymore? Labour said they'd keep debt between 15%-20% of GDP, now it's 36% and forecast to rise to 50%, another $48 billion, but wait .. they just change the rules on how they count debt and bingo it's back to 20%. FFS. These economy wreckers must go, another year of ruining NZ and future generations.
Who cares?
It's the interest that matters (see japan).
Hence the S&P rating.
The governments net worth is increasing:
https://www.stats.govt.nz/information-releases/government-finance-statistics-general-government-year-ended-june-2021
Not even current figures and in Fiat Kiwi badly eroded courtesy of Govt's directives:)
On the back of what is coming with inflation, rising interest rates and harder times - a red herring :)
No matter how it's spun, it will be cold comfort all those out there who Ardern has promised
better times, which hasn't & likely wont materialise any time soon with them all on the standard IGNORE ;)
Who cares? The current and future generations of taxpayers who will be up to their eyeballs in debt, they’ll care, probably enough to vote out this incompetent reckless government. S&P won’t care, they’re not paying back the debt.
Incredible naivety, are you topping up your benefit with the labour shill money?
Other countries like Australia were actively recruiting and allowing in healthcare workers during the last 2 years while Ardern & her useless ministers shut out healthcare workers.
But she was okay with allowing in DJs - in one case as we know (mate of Gayford), 3 times!
Now NZ is short 4,000 healthcare workers heading into winter - the game is up for Little & Ardern.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/...r-winter-union
Do you even understand what debt is? What borrowing is? Who the lenders of billions of dollars to profligate governments are? Wake up, no one is writing cheques out to Labour shills, except your employer who has borrowed to do it and the taxpayer is paying for it. Are you one of the hundreds of spin merchants that Labour has deployed into all social media channels, to spin their flawed ideologies and reckless practices. Labour has set up NZ taxpayers for a generation or more of debt repayment liabilities. You have no idea really, do you, nothing you have ever said makes any sense in the real world.
This useless government immigration has loosened up the criteria for 'healthcare workers', but unfortunately for some unknown reason that doesn't include nurses. They're the good souls who graft at the patient level providing daily care for the unwell, broken and elderly. And they do it for ludicrously low pay, less than driving a truck delivering merchandise to a builders site. Let alone they can leave NZ and double their wages for the same work with less stress and time demands.
Good grief, the health sector is not just about importing surgeons and doctors, for every one of them there's dozen or more nurses required. Labour has dealt the near-death blow to Health, and ridiculously they think they can fix grass-roots health sector problems by restructuring Health sector governance, at a cost of many many millions!
Sickening, if it didn't mean we'd need a doctor and nurse to treat us, because there aren't enough and Labour aren't doing anything useful about it. Only the relatively wealthy can afford reliable prompt healthcare through outrageously expensive private health insurance, the rest are sadly beaten down to a lottery by this incompetent reckless government who have only made things a great deal worse while in power.
A disgrace, a totally inexcusable disgrace.
Racist - because most of the nurses are from third world countries like the Philippines & India. Our healthcare system would collapse without them but this government is unwilling to recognise that fact.
Sexist - because the majority of nurses are females.
Talked to an immigration consultant contact who was appalled at how short sighted & incompetent Ardern & her nincompoops have been in the last 2 years - hospitals & retirement villages were screaming out for nurses but none was allowed to come in.
His firm used to help bring in 30 nurses a year from the Philippines but has brought in a grand total of zero in the last 2 years.
It is clear that there have been zero thought given to the post pandemic world when healthcare workers are in hot demand. NZ should have been opening the doors to allow them in when NZ had the chance but this Ardern government arrogantly basked in earlier glory and thought that it could keep COVID out forever with its zero COVID strategy - and based its health response on that arrogant belief.
Amazing how the media (especially TV1) does not cover the homeless sleeping in cars, caravans and/or packed 5 to a room in depth - as was the case during the Key years.
Especially when the problem is now a crisis - 3 times more on the waiting list than when Ardern took office.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-pl...GXC3AUW4TSXSE/
“ …. development has been praised for addressing a "critical" need but one social worker said it was "a drop in a puddle of what's needed".
There are 1053 people on the housing register in Tauranga and the Western Bay of Plenty, with 82 per cent of the demand being for one- and two-bedroom housing.
Of these, 1014 are considered to have a "severe and persistent" housing need that must be addressed immediately.
Trust general manager Jacqui Ferrel said every tenant had a story of housing hardship, with some moving in from portacoms, cars and couch surfing.
Numerous complaints and appeals to the government and the police over a year and NOTHING happens.
And yet another example of Ardern's ‘be kind’ policy of favouring gangs and criminals over law abiding citizens:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/terrif...SFINNGQVPUF4Q/
The children's mother has been fighting for over a year for police and Kāinga Ora to take action against the state house tenant and her gang member partner due to constant abuse, drug taking and threats of physical and sexual violence.
There is nowhere to house the nurses.
And luxon wants a surplus pronto so Aucklands infrastructure will have to suffer even more.
Tax cuts plus a paper surplus doesn't leave much for health.
So labour is still the only credible choice to protect health.
Brain drain out of NZ underway.
Will make Ardern’s unemployment numbers look even better - pity about the huge increases in the jobkeeper benefits numbers. Cannot fool all of the people all of the time - just the Labour brainwashed people all of the time.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/300...g-people-leave
4.5 years in government and 3 years after announcing a $1.9 billion spend on mental health, this is the crap and bs that the Ardern government comes out with :
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/budget...JVQ2KLVBHXX3A/
All spin, big words and zero delivery.
Would not trust this lot to drive on a straight well sign posted and paved road, let alone the winding one which lays ahead.
When the Banks are suggesting that the guts is about to fall out of things, this must be
confirmation of what we all knew was likely to happen anyway ;)
So much for Robbo's mickey mouse policies - now it all looks like it's about to
descend and land around his ears while he tosses billions at Shaw's play pets
instead oblivious to what is about to come crashing down ;)
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/128...l-since-1970s?
Economy 'red lining': Another bank predicts biggest house price fall since 1970s
Perhaps Robbo had better step down now before the real carnage hits ;)
1,000 deaths from COVID in NZ as of today.
Notice how quiet Ardern & Hipkins are about the growing death toll?
No pronouncements anymore from the pulpit of truth about how great Ardern’s pandemic strategy is at ‘saving lives’ but still lots of excuses about the backlog and delays in the healthcare sector because of the lockdowns (to save lives).
What was her promise to all before she became PM ? :)
Where's Twyford now ?
Where are our promised 1,000,000 new houses or was that 100 million (or was that Shane's failed Tree planting promise) ?
probably both seeing dismally low success ratings after how many changes of Parliamentary seat warmers
and new posturing puppets overseeing ? ;)
The mess was probably inherited from the previous Labour Govt who failed to plan and recognise
what was needed in the future - so merely kept dreaming on :)
There may be periods of falling prices but the trend is upwards globally in the longer term.
A symptom of loose fiscal controls, money printing and inflation I would say :)
Something that the current Govt are guilty as charged on doing in the past 5 years,
then wonder why they have these issues compound into their worst nightmares
that they then have few clues on addressing without producing further carnage :)
Ardern says she has lost all her taste.
Never thought she had any taste in the first place by the company of ministers and Maori cabal she keeps.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/...t-all-my-taste
Wonderful to see Pharmac getting a $191 million boost to its budget, the largest boost since it was formed 30 years ago, to be able to offer NZ'ers better fully funded drug treatments for cancer & other illnesses.
You never know when you or a loved one at any age might need these, & NZ fallen way behind countries like Australia & Canada in being able to offer some of these newer drugs which are more effective, much easier to tolerate, save lives & in many many cases help people resume their normal productive lives.
Labour govt has increased Pharmac funding by 43% since taking office in 2017, which shows how poorly National were prepared to underfund Pharmac & how
under National access to these newer better treatments was restricted to High Wealth families who could pay for them.
National says it cares about middle NZ, but does it really or is it just political rhetoric?
More socialism, more moves to prop up the housing ponzi, more borrowing and debt......just a continuation of the malaise that has been afflicting NZ for some time now. The state doling out more money here and there to paper over the inequality that they and the central bank have caused. Almost every NZer will now be receiving some sort of payment from the state, and when put under pressure no doubt the government will just do more of the same. The winter energy payments are now locked in, income top ups for lower income people are now on the way and will probably only increase, families already get tax credits....there is no longer any attempt to manage the nations finances prudently.
On the other side National are looking at implementing tax cuts, and they won't roll back Labours spending excesses. There will also no doubt be all sorts of gimmicks from them to benefit property investors and speculators. Again, there will no longer be any attempt to manage the nations finances prudently from them either.
Young people and highly qualified people will leave NZ in droves unfortunately.
Corporate welfare:
$100m for a new “Business Growth Fund” to invest in small-medium businesses that banks aren’t willing to lend to – i.e. taxpayer funding for Dragon’s Den dropouts. Government representatives of the Fund will even get seats on SME the company boards!
$118m in “advisory services” for farmers and Maori land owners
$40m on “Transformation Plans” for forestry, wood processing, food and fisheries businesses
$350m “Affordable Housing Fund” for housing developers
$15.5m for “Pacific economic development” (i.e. funding for Pasifika-run businesses in New Zealand)
An extra $26m (now $155m in total) for “Progressive Procurement” – i.e. favouring Maori-owned businesses as government contractors
$349m for a Kiwirail bailout
Health:
An extra $3.1 billion (one-off) for the new co-governed health system ($1.8 billion of this disappears immediately: it wipes off existing DHB debt)
$580m for “Maori Health and wellbeing” including $188m for the new Maori Health Authority
$20m establishing new “Iwi-Maori Partnership Boards” (i.e. introducing co-governance to the new health system)
$70m for Pasifika health providers
Special interests:
$185m in arts and culture grants “to help build a resilient cultural sector as it continues to adapt to the challenges coming out of COVID-19”
$327m in funding for the new RNZ/TVNZ merged media entity
A $1 billion “Maori Budget” including: $91m on Maori trades, training, and cadetships, $3m for “marae connectivity”, $5m for iwi/Maori teachers
$200m for Maori education
$28m for Maori “language, culture and identity”
$162m for Maori organisations to reduce emissions, including $36m for “matauranga [traditional knowledge]-based approaches to reducing biological emissions” and $30m for “Maori Climate Action”
$38m for Pasifika training, education, and bilingual schooling
$14m for an "historical account of the Dawn Raids"
Miscellaneous:
$2 billion in extra spending on education (to smooth over the end of the decile system)
$662m for Defence
More Police ($562m), initiatives focused on organise crime ($94m), and on reoffending ($198m)
$100m establishing a new “Ministry for Disabled People” ($100m) – of which only $11m is allocated to providing services
$178m for councils dealing with RMA reform, plus a new “National Maori Entity” to co-govern resource management
$40m to research RNA vaccine technology
$114m on family violence initiatives
More taxpayer money pumped into the housing market via more generous First Home Grant and First Home Loan rules
Some of this spending is uncontroversial. A lot of it is mad. But what really hit me was the share scale: spending items costing tens of millions were treated like minor bulletpoints by Ministers.
And New Zealanders didn't want it!
New Zealanders weren’t even asking for this new spending.
We can afford it though (see credit rating).
Plus there's been a lack of investment across the board.
And meanwhile, give the squeezed middle class less than $1 a day to 'take the edge off Ardern's prolific spending induced high cost of living crisis' - not even enough to buy a loaf of bread!
In other words, Robertson told them to go suck on a kumara (grown & planted by the Maori cabal).
Bankrupt of ideas BUT not of throwing money down the dunny - that's Ardern & Robertson.
At least you stopped calling the PM Cindy
It’s an insult to Cindy to call Ardern that name.
Read today about the horse named ‘Smiles like Jacinda’?
https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/sp...cing-industry/
How PC these days to get upset about that! A whole country which has lost its sense of humour and perspective - except when it comes to humouring the Maori voters who Ardern needs to stay in power.
Give a clueless-never worked a decent job-leftie power and she will grab it and hang on for dear life - because she has nowhere else to go except the UN.
The Australians are seeing through Ardern for who she is - power mad hungry spin BS artist.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/com...adb83192123bd7
Paywalled
The australian should worry more about the chinese base in the solomans.
I guess this is what is called ‘delivering for Māori’ - if you total it up it’s actually billions of dollars in this budget. Absolutely mind boggling the amount of money involved, while the media focuses on a $350 bribe (smokescreen) ‘to take the edge of the cost of living’. This is just epic looting and pillaging of a nations finances - and it’s all put on the nations credit card with Robbo again fudging the way we measure debt.
‘$349m for a Kiwirail bailout.’
That is now the umpteenth bailout / handout to the white elephant on rails. Run by the government so the waste and inefficiency will be off the charts.
This is easily the most wasteful government in NZ’s history. Yet you’ll still hear people talk about how ‘we blew all our money on the $26 million flag referendum’ which just proves that many NZers are not so much brainwashed as brain dead.
National gave 2b+ in treaty settlements and whanau ora.
Blue is good, red bad we get the idea.
Treaty settlements = settlements on behalf of the nation. Supposed to be ‘full and final’.
The amount of money Labour is handing out in ‘delivering for Māori’ in one budget looks to exceed the total of all those settlements.
None of this truth will penetrate your red bubble. You are a rusted-on Labour fanatic and there is literally nothing they could do that would change your stance one iota.
They did that last time under Helen >> TOLL holding couldn't believe their luck being able to get anything for Kiwi rail ... $$300mill tax payer dollars later we have an ongoing nightmare I see just got another $350mill bail out FFS!!! .. All Labour are good at is throwing money at problems they help create .. As many mistakes that National made Bill English was pretty tight on the spending front ... but this lot Billion here Billion there .. no problem we have the nations credit card...
John key & sir bill lost our AA+ credit rating in 2009.
Good thing we have it back now.
Says the person ranting about spending, even though we are in one of the best shape in the OECD.
There is a world outside little old NZ.
[QUOTE=dobby41;958322]Yeah - National didn't fund core services as they should have been and we went backward in Health and Education (and more) investment.
Really set us up to fail with all the immigration we had at the time.[/QUOTE
So what do Labour do for health yesterday, fund tvnz a bucket load more than health. Shows you where labours priority lies.
Pathetic how 4.5 years in power and Labour & Ardern still attempt at every turn to blame previous governments for Ardern’s inability to deliver on anything!
The only thing she knows to do is SPEND, SPEND and TAX TAX TAX.
$1.9 billion for mental health for it to go backwards.
Billions of dollars and thousands of additional staff for Kainga Ora into housing and she turned a self-described crisis into an unmitigated disaster. Where’s the 100,000 new houses?
Waiting list for housing up 200% and emergency housing costing more than $1.2m a day!
Then, there’s the failure of the $3 billion Provincial Growth Fund to deliver any projects of benefit.
What about the 1,800 extra police personnel?
The 1 billion trees?
The list goes on and on and on.
All spin and no delivery - this budget is no different.
Worrying indeed & there are some real challenges ahead, but some economic perspective is helpful.
Following the GFC & Christchurch earthquake, National rightly increased debt and ran 6 annual deficits to help Kiwis through those crisis.
Labour is faced with running 5 years of deficits to help protect Kiwis from the economic effects of the Global Pandemic, the war in Ukraine & the disruption to energy & food supplies caused by both.
Our first surplus is expected in 2024/25 something most governments around the world would give their eye teeth for.
Comparing current General Govt Nett Debt as a % of GDP with some of our peer countries, we see -
NZ = 20%
Australia = 37.5%
UK = 76.1%
USA = 95.8%
Canada = 32.1%
And if we look just 4 years ahead to 2025 & compare Gen' Govt' Nett Debt as a % of GDP, we see -
NZ = 18%
Australia = 39.4%
UK = 61.9%
USA = 102.4%
Canada = 29.1%
These are most recent forecasts April 2022, IMF, World Economic Outlook Database.
So some of the criticism of Grant Robertson & catastrophising of the economy by the opposition & a media seems a bit emotive.
If you were Minister of Finance for any of these other countries, you'd be looking rather enviously at NZ's economic position.
Agreed it's certainly tough for a lot of NZ'ers at the moment, while many high wealth individuals have enjoyed spectacular increases in wealth over the last 2 years so lots of imbalances & challenges.
But I can't see National would have done any better & after they presented their last mistake ridden shadow budget, it didn't inspire much confidence in their financial management.
Its also worth noting when pressed, Christopher Luxon refuses to commit to spending $1 less than Grant Robertson.
Tax increases are deflationary.
So if we were to truly believe the likes of seymour then we must logically conclude that "tax and spend" makes no difference to inflation.
Long term permanent tax cuts in contrast cause inflation.
More Govt Loan Shops bound to be being proposed in 2023 offering higher loan limits ? ;)
RB Governor will say no problem - another $50 Bils on the inter-Govt Loan Tab
to be unpaid over the never never while the local fiat deflates itself further
and rising poverty inspires more dependence and screaming ;)
The alarmed Political nobs will then play a game of try find a scapegoat to blame
to minimise egg splatter back on themselves and to buy a little more time..
Throw them a further few hundred to try to bridge the thousands gap they're
wearing and hope they'll go away until everyone gets totally fed up with the
circus and the job lands in some other unfortunate's lap to clean the mess up :)
Been seen before hasn't it ? .. but it's openly debatable whether the players were
all dreaming or sleepwalking at the time ;)
How to lose control of the reins and deny all the signs and symptoms for today ..
don't worry about tomorrow .. a bit like a Bank Robber who thought he had the
Bank Manager tied up and stash safely in his pocket until he discovered
the trail of all the bills taken dropped on his escape had found him out ;)
More so large scale Govt spending and the large Lolly scrambles of the past 2-3 years .. that is
unless one has been unfortunate enough to have been asleep under their rock for the whole time
so didn't notice :)
Perhaps not causing it the first place would have been more sensible ? ;)
How they caused the increasing fuel price (which flows through to pretty much everything) and the global supply chain issues (which exacerbates supply issues) is beyond me.
A lot was spent on employment support - the govt paying what business would have (a bit less actually) doesn't create inflation.
You have brought the opposition lies and exaggerations hook line and sinker.
Quite a lot.
More ambulances etc.
Have a look here
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...increased.html
As far as Pharmac is concerned a 20% increase is not to be sneezed at - in Labours terms Pharmac funding has increased some 41%. There is always a need for more though.
The TVNZ/National Radio funding is not quite what it seems (the devil is in the detail).
Very small increase really. Have a read of this
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/128...t-after-merger
Pharmac increase is pathetic - $191m over 2 years for desperately needed LIFE saving medicine.
Just compare it with the $240m spent to BRIBE Maori & South Aucklanders with $150 supermarket, petrol & Prezzy cards to get Maori vaccinated!
And $56m for the cycle bridge (not to be) and $60m+ for Pike River non-recovery.
Shows where Labour's real priorities are - votes.
Wonder why all the Oil Explorers in NZ promptly waved adios and disappeared over the horizon ? ;)
Just on the inflation bit - most recognise that it results from additional monetary supply v
available or same amount of goods. Excess injected into the economy for no real extra
productivity can clearly be seen as inflationary as well. as can reduced available goods too :)
Look no further than post lockdown stockmarkets and continued Property market pricing
growth for true measure of the effects of this. Sucking too much out too fast can be inflationary
as well leading to ramp up of financing costs, similar to tax increases in harder times -
the extra has to be found or financed from somewhere by those on the paying end
usually at a higher cost :)
The Non recovery is now directed at the Health Sector headed by the bearded Honcho who oversaw
Piker's River feel good & non perform.. the latest exercise at a huge cost and will probably produce
even less aside from a bit of a centralised shuffle and a raft of goffers sailing around none of whom
will likely have the slightest clue on what's supposed to be going on :)
A distinct shortage of mobilised bureaucratic shufflers in Wellington however looks to be the only
indication of any visible beneficiary group going forward winning out of the exercise :)
A bit like the too much water on a Minister's brain exercise which is trying to be pulled off :)
And notice how quiet Robertson and Ardern were about housing in the budget?
That’s because they have added 1,050 more staff (double) in Housing NZ/KO since they took office in 2017. So over $100m at least in staffing costs for what?
Usual answer to any issue by Ardern & Labour - first pay tens of millions of dollars to consultants, then throw more money & staff at the problem - TO MAKE THE PROBLEM WORSE!
Meanwhile, law abiding citizens continue to be terrorised and threatened by criminals and gangs - so what have the staff been doing since they certainly have not delivered on Kiwibuild?
Spend recklessly and tax NZers for their wasteful & prolific spending - Robertson & Ardern.
Based upon the track record of Ardern over the last 4.5 years, this year's budget is going to make everything worse but she has a few thousand PR staff to spin the message that things are great. Like Kiwibuild and Mental Health.
This is the extra 1050 KO staff in action - doing stuff all.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/kainga...3KMEYNVLLUM4I/
A state house tenant has been awarded $5000 after having to live next to a neighbour from hell who had rowdy parties, was abusive and urinated on the fence.
The Auckland tenant took Kāinga Ora to the Tenancy Tribunal after lodging more than 130 complaints against the neighbour in three years.
A government which worsened the housing rental problem into a full blown disaster by pushing punitive measures on the majority of landlords for the misdeeds of a few.
And what has Ardern been doing with KO after adding on 1,050 staff at Housing NZ?
Stuff all, basically as we all now know.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/whanga...UIXNAMHHKYU4I/
The worse landlord - if it was a private landlord - Kainga Ora. But because it is a government entity, it gets exemptions and excuses.
The hypocrisy & incompetence of Ardern - disgraceful & repugnant.
The Aussies have elected their M J Savage lookalike as PM.
Will the Kiwis elect their Muldoon lookalike as PM next year?
Who else saw Tuk Morgan interviewed on one of the weekends current affairs programs?
When asked for his views on co governance, he said NZ is in for a "major shakeup."
Who is ready to have their cage rattled?"
Miss Goody Two Shoes had better be fast otherwise she could get dustered out
before even looking across the ditch for a pow wow with Comrades over yonder,
if they even want to know :)
Mr Biden seems too busy to want even notice an attempted impromptu :)
He must want to preserve his good taste ;)
Is there some spare space for some excess luggage on a freight plane doing an airdrop
over Ukraine for NZ's No 1 sightseer ? ;)
Harvard doesn’t agree with you.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/02/jacinda-ardern-named-class-of-2022-commencement-speaker/
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand will be the principal speaker at Harvard’s 371st Commencement on May 26, the University announced Monday.
“Prime Minister Ardern is one of the most respected leaders on the world stage and we are delighted she will join us in May to celebrate the Class of 2022,” said Harvard President Larry Bacow. “From climate change and gender equality to COVID-19, she has modeled compassionate leadership that has brought together empathy and science-based solutions to address the most challenging issues of our time. I very much look forward to her address.”
Ardern has won international admiration for her decisive management of the pandemic.