National - FFS!

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Obviously the border must improve. Let’s hope that there is someone with expert advice as to how this can be put into effect.

You had said that “nobody could possibly have done worse than this government” so that implied you had been making a comparison assessment with other people. However now you say that comparisons are not valid!

My post there is in DIRECT response to the CYA excuse posted by you :

I am sure Simon Bridges would have done a better job sorting out and overseeing government departments. Yeah right!

Do you seriously assess the effectiveness of a leader (who has failed in his/her job) by referring to a competitor who missed out on the job?

By that measure, CEOS of all companies which suffer spectacular falls in earnings and fortunes can simply refer to the unsuccessful applicants for said job and say the unsuccessful applicants would have done worse.

Thing is - you have no way of knowing so it's only fair to critic the one in charge and deal with the here and now.

In this case, who could have done a worse job than this government in its failings in protecting the border? Hard to imagine anyone half intelligent and competent doing a worse job - because of the double failures at border protection. They have learnt nothing from the first debacle and in failing to learn, they have placed the whole of NZ at risk. How bad is that?