Just catching up on stuff and man, you really went for me there hey! :t_up:
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"Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error." Cicero 43 BC
That's the huge difference between Luxon (with his real world corporate background) vs Clueless Ardern & Hysterical Hapless Hipkins (with their background in student politics & academia) - being prepared to act decisively when mistakes are made.
Note the difference between Luxon and Clueless Cindy & Hysterical Hapless Hipkins:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...K7LAGV4WIKOJM/
paywalled
"Christopher Luxon’s brutal despatch of Broadcasting Minister Melissa Lee and Disabilities Minister Penny Simmonds after just 149 days is to be commended. It’s probably the Prime Minister’s most important decision so far. If he sticks with this political heresy that ministers can be removed so quickly on performance grounds – and especially if it becomes doctrine for future governments – it could be enough on its own to establish a Luxon legacy. It’s often best to let people fail fast."
"How much better off might the previous Government have been – and New Zealand – had Jacinda Ardern applied the same rigour to, say, the problem of Phil Twyford, her first Minister of Housing and also Transport? s early as March 2018, just months since it too had been sworn in, experts in the property industry were saying that the Ardern Government was going about KiwiBuild all wrong. That was the moment to sack Twyford. Instead Ardern waited another 15 months before sacking him as Housing Minister. By then, her signature policy lay in ruins, having become a laughing stock. Ardern then let Twyford struggle on for another 16 months before sacking him as Transport Minister, but not before he had turned her other signature policy, light rail, into an even worse fiasco."
https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com...less-show.html
"Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has surprised everyone with his ruthlessness in sacking two of his ministers from their crucial portfolios. Removing ministers for poor performance after only five months in the job just doesn’t normally happen in politics. That’s refreshing and will be extremely well received. The public will perceive this unprecedented move as a sign that Luxon has very high standards for his government and is determined that his ministers actually deliver results."
"Luxon’s show of strength is a massive contrast with the last government: “What's happened today will shock a lot of people, because over the last few years we've got used to Prime Minsters just putting up with their ministers doing a bad job or behaving badly in public. Kiri Allan, Phil Twyford, Michael Wood, Clare Curran, even Nanaia Mahuta - the Foreign Minister who didn't like international travel. It took forever for Hipkins or Ardern to demote the under-performers, and they suffered for it – public opinion of them was tainted.”
Of course ethnic and diversity were big factors in considering her. There are rich veins of votes to be tapped into with the Asian electorates.
My Labour Party insider told me that Indians used to vote Labour until the last election. The Chinese, Koreans and Japanese typically vote National.
Peter Dunne going on about how Luxon govt repeating Muldoon’s Think Big ..maybe not for the better of nz
https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/04/26/go...rian-excesses/
Jobs for the girls...
I have never understood how Paula Bennett rose to anything.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...ard-chair.html
Or the same way National somehow managed to decrease the number of state houses over nine years.
I mean seriously how tone deaf were they?
Didn't Bennett grow up in a State House?
Key as well I think.
Incredible that they didn't think others deserved shelter & a chance.
Keep it coming buddy.
No new material, but same audience doesn't make you a comedian, it makes you a clown.