Originally Posted by
neopoleII
""so the promised balanced budget and the second tranche of tax cuts??""
From the people that I interact with.. co workers, friends and customers,
no one seems to be worried with a deficit or even 7 of them...... because they "know"
thanks to the media that the rest of the world seems to be in far more trouble than we are.
What with the tidal wave of refugees swamping Europe, China slowing down, and the rest of the world
still struggling to get out of its economic slump makes us look ok.
And then we have left wing NZ parties banging on about bring in more refugees, raising taxes for job suppliers..... ie employers.....
and raising benefits and wages to "living standards"....... by whose standard?
So in a nut shell... those that work hard and those that rely on the state and can understand a news bite or read a newspaper
realize that that a vote for a Labour/Green/ Winnie party might bite them in the bottom.
This is why JK is still doing well, and by the time the next election is near..... the world outlook might be looking bleaker.
And in the middle of all this is the potential "king maker" .
His core voters are conservative elderly........
Which way will he go?
Some posters on here want him to go left and encompass the Greens and Labour and their big spend social agenda.
But IMHO his core voters will demand that he goes center right or sits out.
I will also write to him asking him which way he is leaning and give him my opinion of which way he should go.
Interesting times ahead.......