Not necessarily. Hannah could take over from Twyford. There's one improvement for a kick-off.
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I'm not sure why he's worried eitherit dramatic if you ask me. They will be lucky to get 3% - guess they need to burn some of that "hard earned".
I like your comment about Labour needing them though :-) it's funny how you think though.
Both National and Labour would jump into bed with them if it meant wining the next election.
In spite of successive governments saying we must improve our productivity to make NZ a better country little has changed
Our country’s productivity is deplorable and the current government seems he’ll bent in under mining business.
Obviously all to hard to talk about and address because ‘productivity’ wont’ be mentioned much in tomorrow’s budget
All being well, the 'Well Being" budget will be what it will be, set in stone now regardless of what we or anyone thinks. My presumption is that so many snouts are in the trough, or expect to be, that the "Well Being" budget will disenfranchise more snouts than it will encourage. Damned if they do, damned if they don't. Socialist budgets forsake the many for the few and meet no one's expectations, ultimately annoying almost everyone.
29 May. Finally the government delivers something in 2019. A record number of workers on strike on any one day in the whole history of NZ
Top of the endangered species list.
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Robertson needed go (resign) ...the Budget carry on just shows how useless the government is.
More of a concern is the political power that he and Jacinda seem to have over Treasury and REserve Bank. That’s very dangerous
Closely followed by Winston.
Care to explain why? I feel like there are many steps missing in this reasoning.
The way I see it is that there was a flaw in the Treasury web site (which may have been there for years). Info got out and National published it, and in fact now National says that they exploited this flaw themselves. Treasury called it a hack and called in the Police.
What am I missing here that causes Robertson to resign? Or is this about something else entirely?
The finance minister is minister in charge of treasury. It's traditional, although a complete charade, to offer resignation to PM when dept cocks-up, which is then declined. Personally I find this sort of playacting such absurd nonsense that I hope he does nothing, and it will all be forgotten in a fortnight anyway.
I thought Winston's response was absurd, but then he didn't usually make much sense anyway. He should go but that could apply to any time in the past 20 years or more.
Grant's response seemed measured and sensible given the information that he had at the time, but I can't find a quote so could be wrong.
I'd see more benefit in Grant offering to resign if this was obviously a new issue. I expect this has probably affected the last few budgets. And there are probably many other government web sites with equally serious issues. Not because this government is incompetent but because IT is hard.