National - FFS!

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So you can relax - you won't have to learn Te Reo or hug too many trees!

Got over your cultural cringe because you are are not a Maori?

Pathetic & sad!

[tim23]

16 odd months is a while away to next election - plenty can happen so not a dead cert that there will be change of government.

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16 odd months is a while away to next election - plenty can happen so not a dead cert that there will be change of government.

Indeed.

National & Luxon are playing it too safe.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/1290...-hope-or-is-it

And here is the real challenge for National. Economic uncertainty has fallen over the country like a hoar frost, and if this uncertainty is matched with a savage downturn, two things will come into play.

First, if it is a global meltdown, Ardern and Grant Robertson will not be held responsible, any more than they were held responsible for Covid.

Second, who are voters going to trust more to look after them: the empathetic Ardern and her big-spending, fiscally irresponsible Robertson, or the former airline executive?

Luxon hasn’t made it clear what National would do if elected, other than a few populist policies. He is playing it safe.

Because they have not defined themselves, National and its leader is providing the Government the opportunity to do it for them, which partly explains why we are seeing Labour running negative attacks on Luxon.

It would take a massive effort for National to lose the next election, against an unpopular administration which has lost its mandate and credibility. They seem up for that challenge.

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It would take a massive effort for National to lose the next election, against an unpopular administration which has lost its mandate and credibility. They seem up for that challenge.

John could barely get more than 61 even though he was running against straw men.

Labour has a popular leader now and Luxon has his religious views to explain.

[dobby41]

Luxon hasn’t made it clear what National would do if elected, other than a few populist policies. He is playing it safe.

In fact, he's made it muddier.
Now the tax cuts might not be in the mix.
Just populist sound bites from the old playbook.
I had hoped that he would be a breath of fresh air with some fresh ideas.

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In fact, he's made it muddier.
Now the tax cuts might not be in the mix.
Just populist sound bites from the old playbook.
I had hoped that he would be a breath of fresh air with some fresh ideas.

Really? You hoping for fresh ideas?

Sounds like you have finally woken up to the fact that Ardern is just full of spin and bad breath through the mouth?

Was never any fresh air with fresh ideas from the spin mistress! Just BS, wasteful wilful spending and non delivery.

Sad, huh?

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And meanwhile, the health system is in crisis - thanks to Ardern & Little.

But for the Opposition Parties pointing it out, Ardern & her multitude of spin doctors would be reassuring NZers that everything is fine.

Truth is out there now for all NZers to see - so preoccupied with spin and divisive racial policies, Ardern has led NZ to disasters on every front.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...-a-crisis.html

Analysis - A health 'crisis' is the latest of the government's cascading problems as National continues to claim it can't deliver anything that matters, the Gib board shortage is elevated to ministerial taskforce level and the new police minister gets to work.

Opposition parties call it "the health crisis". The government prefers "system under pressure".

The problems besetting it were front and centre on the political stage this week as one report after another suggested the opposition had got it right.

[dobby41]

Really? You hoping for fresh ideas?

You do have trouble keeping up with a thread don't you?
Or are you just being obtuse and appearing thick?

[dobby41]

Meanwhile, all parties except National decry the US Wade v's Roe decision.
Luxon can only say that National wouldn't change the situation here - everyone knows he is pro-life and quietly pleased with the US direction.
Of course, Simon O'Connor showed their true colours with his post which Luxon asked him to remove as he doesn't want any spotlight on what he, himself, thinks.

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the Gib board shortage is elevated to ministerial taskforce level and the new police minister gets to work..

When did a shortage of plasterboard become an item for the Government?
I know Canada has a National Strategic hoard of Maple Syrup but plasterboard?
Next, they'll have to sort out a shortage of fixings etc because the 'free market' which everyone harps on about isn't working.