Politics 🗳️ NZ Politics

[wizard of Tauranga]

How do we stop?

Easy mate. National is fixing health, crime, education and the economy and then no one will need to blame anyone anymore

 

[marv.]

How do we stop?

guy fawkes had the right idea.

 

[miket12]

What I’ve noticed is our friend @wizard of Tauranga whenever he “whitewashes” any “issue” arising in the Government (post 18023 above an example) can’t help himself but reference a potential future coalition government as being worse.

I guess he has learnt from Luxon who 18 months after having control still blames the previous Govt for everything negative that occurs.

Unfortunately, it’s what every political studies student learns their first day at their Politics 101 course whether they’re from the left or centre or right…. blame the previous Government for what’s gone wrong (even if it’s your parties fault) and accept everything that’s good because of your policies (even if it’s actually the previous Government’s actions/policies which caused the good outcome).

Remember when Key’s government blamed everything on Clark and Cullen, the GFC and the Christchurch earthquake. Ardern spent her first term blaming National, then 2 & 1/2 years blaming COVID and then Chippy spent six months blaming Ardern.

It’s all Politics 101…. always has been and always will be.

 

[Mr. Brownstone]

Come on, thoughts on the content and facts in that article?

Ok read the article & thought it was a reasonably balanced effort by Vance that considered things from both angles. I’m not sure why the fuss about Wilkinson being involved - government are always utilising unelected independents as advisors for policy. I’m quite close to someone who has been an advisor to Key, Peters, English etc for decades. Wasn’t one of Jacinda’s great failings the fact that she didn’t listen to enough advice?

As far as privatisation goes, well there’s a lot of state owned assets in this country that, due to incredibly poor management, have been a major drain on the NZ tax payer. There’s been a directive from this government for those assets to stand on their own feet & if they can’t then privatisation is an option. That path doesn’t guarantee success (Tranz Rail was as big a basket case in the 90’s as KiwiRail is today), but it often does generate a much better outcome. Obviously some assets are critical to NZ Inc. & should stay as state owned loss leaders that support the greater good. Anyway that’s my 1c worth.