National's bold announcement today remaking NZ pest free by 2050 will no doubt be a crowd pleaser and I would very pleased if this was pulled off.
However I just don't believe them. This is the government that cut DOC's funding and has done one restructure after another after the previous model failed. The same government that wants to sponsor seabed mining and grow the oil and gas industry no matter the environmental cost let alone the price of oil! This is the government that has shown no willingness to combat climate change and reduce emissions.
To be frank I think its nigh on impossible to achieve anyway. What are they going to do to eradicate every sewer rat?
Its a policy they won't have to deliver on as its so far out.
They can't deliver on current policies. They are denial that there is a housing crisis.
This is a policy to appear bold before the next election tat they will never have to deliver on.