Did I defend them? I only want to see some of the skills from the great "economic managers" that they claimed to have.
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Wrong. Nuclear power is cost-competitive with other forms of electricity generation, except where there is direct access to low-cost fossil fuels.
Next you'll pivot to 'safety concerns', cycling through your grab bag of Lefty talking points.
I repeat: the global Left do not want a solution to 'the climate change problem', because then they won't get their cherished 'revolution to destroy the capitalist system'. Every arm of Leftist attack, whether it be 'climate change', 'gender issues', 'the colonial legacy / decolonisation' , workplace relations - it is all designed to stoke division and societal disaffection with the aim of 'a revolution to destroy the capitalist system'.
Scrapping wasteful spending is the kind of economic management that New Zealanders voted for. I know you can't tolerate democracy but you'll just have to put up with it I'm afraid. The mega-ferries and grandiose portside terminals can go to hell as far as I am concerned. The KiwiRail board and CEO should have been sacked as soon as they tabled the first massive cost blow-out.
Strange because their policies generally make people more satisfied within the "unjust system" by reducing the downsides. That's not the best plan if you want to destroy the system and replace it with something else.
Wouldn't you simply join Act instead if you want "revolution in the streets".
Jonu have you read the iReX (inter-islander replacement) project plan or know anything about it? It was going to be fantastic & it's a vital piece on Stage Highway 1 connecting the countries 2 main islands.
Of course Grant Robertson was furious about the escalating cost, but with Wellington's earthquake seismic challenges plus rising sea levels to prepare for, its a difficult project.
And the cost increases to NZR & the govt land squarely at the feet of Downer HEB Joint Venture who are the highly experienced infrastructure project managers, so if you think they're fools & a bad bunch, who would you suggest replace them?
Unfortunate but all major infrastructure projects have cost blow outs, think of - Puhoi to Warkworth motorway, Waterview tunnel, Transmission Gully, North Western Motorway, Christchurch Stadium, State Highway 25A Coromandel, Auckland harbour bridge, Sydney Opera House, Channel Tunnel connecting England & Europe, etc
We wouldn't have any of thees things if projects had been cancelled half way through, to they end up costing more in the long term like the North-Western Motorway which due to shortsightedness & cost cutting has had to have several hugely expensive upgrades adding extra lanes which should have been built in the first place.
This 3 year govt cycle is handicapping us on desperately needed major long term infrastructure ( 100 year resilience).
Do you think in 30 or 40 years time we will look back and worry about an extra $1.47 billion which would have saved us replacing these clapped out second hand ferries National bought us & build new port facilities.
There's a safety aspect too, lets hope we don't end up with another Wahine disaster because the govt was so short sighted.
Have a look at the project & tell us what you think.
https://www.irex.co.nz/wellington
Still whingeing about people getting to keep more of their own money! But I guess under your totalitarian system, no-one would own anything, everything would be run and controlled by the state ('social justice'), and we'd be in some sort of 'utopia' of hunter-gathering & gulags. Not the world I want to live in. You Leftists can agitate all you want, the revolution ain't coming.
I listened to Reidy as well and took a different view to you. Probably not surprising. But instead of debating each point as you and I will never agree on it, I ask you if you can direct me to one country where this so called "rail enabled" and hugely expensive system, has been successfully implemented and used ?
I'm interested in learning more about it.