Matters that National will fix.

[Panda-NZ-]

My take: as well as GST on Kiwisaver Fees. Other Potential Mistakes/ Blunders

(1) Forceful move of default Conservative KiwiSavers from Conservative to Balanced by Dr David Parker. As recently as last Thursday Dr Parker was proclaiming the switch would make greatly increased wealth for the KiwiSavers.
It may of course in time but to that point Balanced and Growth Funds were all were down 3% to 6% compared to the Conservative/Cash funds since the switch.

Bonds were hammered after corona and cash has made a return below inflation since 2008.

[Aaron]

How? Tell us National's specific policies to 'fix' all these things, or is this just another airy fairy Hallmark card ?

The estimated cost of fixing NZ's water infrastructure is $185 Billion, just to maintain critical services. Wouldn't you want that debt/cost spread over all taxpayers rather than just the ratepayers?
National reduced the Police budget & closed many community stations, including the terrible decision to close the Fort Street station in Downtown Auckland city.
Nursing problems can be solved by further raising their pay (more than Labour already has) but that means higher taxes.
National put a lid on the Health budget for 9 years, effectively meaning it went backwards all while hospitals were having to put off maintenance & repairs & the population grew by another million or so people.
Labour has given the Health budget the biggest increase in funding of any govt. We now have funding for Cancer drugs which were not previously funded under National.
If you get Cancer, you are a hell of a lot better off under this govt than you were under National & that's a fact.
Do you have any idea 161,000 homes have been built since Labour came to office, over 41,000 homes in the year to June 2022, under this Labour govt 20,000 more homes built in 5 years, than in 9 years under National.
It's been a seismic shift, by far the largest addition to housing stock going back to 1991
Kiwibank estimates we will have housing surplus in less than 12 months.

Sure there's problems, but since National lost all their decent MP's & just left with an inexperienced 1st term MP as leader & few who have had any ministerial experience, and no new policies, and half of the caucus seriously hate the other half, & people like Luxon, Simeon Brown & Chris Bishop are flirting with extremists like the Freedom Party which must make Hipango & a few others happy, & they are so unrepresentative of culturally diverse NZ & no one really knows what they stand for, etc etc they are not ready for government.

Great Post, very specific. Better than the general waffle we tend to get.

Someone who appears to have done some research.

[Toulouse - Luzern]

I like this Hedgeye cartoon

Uncle Sam Eagle (Fed) lays an egg with potential to blow up Bears and Sheltering Bulls

https://mcusercontent.com/178a9f99c9...d7d11ac537.png

[Crypto Crude]

Well said!

More political merry go round for you...

[whatsup]

Rotorua, what a mess , homeless, gangs, drugs, motels earning $1,000,000 plus , social wellfare B S.!!

[whatsup]

Honesty needs fixing BIG TIME !!!

[Blue Skies]

You see here's the classic problem, I would love National to be able to fix the problems we are facing post Covid pandemic, but they're beyond hopeless, all the competent MP's have left plus several in disgrace, leaving a motly bunch who somehow got through the selection process.

Watch the interview, this train wreck interview in 2020 with National's Housing spokesperson at that time Jaquie Dean (currently Conservation)

Even just yesterday Luxon said it was rubbish National had sold off too many state houses, categorically contradicting his Deputy Nicola Willis who's said National did sell off too many State Houses when in govt.

Watch the interview, its eye opening.

(The current National spokesperson on Housing is Chris Bishop, the pre politics - ex lobbyist for Big Tobacco who actively denied there was a link between smoking & cancer, pushed back against all Labours policies to reduce smoking, all while 5000 people year were still dying ghastly deaths from smoking & others lose their sight, amputations of limbs, & carcinomas of the mouth & tongue. )


https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...-in-power.html

[Balance]

You see here's the classic problem, I would love National to be able to fix the problems we are facing post Covid pandemic, but they're beyond hopeless, all the competent MP's have left plus several in disgrace, leaving a motly bunch who somehow got through the selection process.

Watch the interview, this train wreck interview this morning with National's Housing spokesperson Jaquie Dean.

They went to Nationals Housing Spokesperson to clarify things because yesterday Luxon said it was rubbish National had sold off too many state houses, categorically contradicting his Deputy Nicola Willis who's said National did sell off too many State Houses when in govt.

Watch the interview, its eye opening! This is the best they've got?


https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...-in-power.html

Better than clueless and deceitful Ardern & her mob of incompetent nincompoops any time.

[Blue Skies]

Better than clueless and deceitful Ardern & her mob of incompetent nincompoops any time.

Sorry Balance, I realised straight after posting, that interview with National's Housing Spokesperson Jaquie Dean was in 2020 & edited to show that.
However, that difference doesn't make any material impact on the point I was making, lack of talent in National caucus now.
How on earth could Judith Collins appoint her to be Housing Spokesperson, let alone get through the selection process & become a National MP?
If National win, she could be a Minister!

[Panda-NZ-]

You have Paul Goldsmith ready to tackle crime issues and Gerry Brownlee to get to work on improving our relationships ..