Politics 🗳️ NZ Politics

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You've got to wonder when National will finally grow up and learn how to have post-Election negotiations as well as Labour do. Labour have only ever had coalition arrangements with a centrist party and only confidence and supply agreements with those parties further out to the left while National seem to want to "jump into bed" with anyone "willing to get the job done".

It's actually quite sickening how quickly National will lie down for the likes of ACT and what they willing to give up/accept to form a government.

I agree largely with what you have said but to be fair, Labour have only had to negotiate once in the last 17 years and in that one they sold their soul and the country to get power. Prior to that Key negotiated well I thought, particularly with including the māori party. This Government is the first one I believe to have the cross party agreement negotiated and signed by each of them. I think that was wise given the NZFirst and ACT partners. The CoC was supposed to implode almost immediately. It's taken until basically now for some cracks to appear and that's usually what Winston does 10-12 months out from an election.