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    From Crash@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 20 08:21:46 2023
    It seems clear that Ardern over the summer break has concluded that
    both she and Labour are not popular as they once were and that the
    effort required to arrest that decline is more than she wants to take
    on or face up to. She has taken the honourable but humbling option to
    give up and retire. Recent PMs that have done the same are John Key
    and David Lange, recent PMs that have not are Helen Clark, Jim Bolger
    and RD Muldoon. Other recent PMs (English, Shipley, Palmer and Moore)
    were not in office long enough to consider.

    The role of PM involves constant political pressure and personal
    sacrifice on the part of private (family) life. No-one can sustain
    this role permanently - it takes a sense of achievement to counter the
    downside and eventually achievement no longer sustains the will to
    continue.

    Talk of the 'Ardern legacy' annoys the hell out of me. Such talk is
    the stuff of future historians - not today's journalists - because it
    takes time into a new era to properly evaluate a past era.

    The question now is where to for Labour? They have no way forward to
    arrest their slide in popularity because their death sentence is now
    enshrined as an Act, not a Bill. The only way forward is for the
    government elected later this year to repeal the 5-waters Acts in
    their entirety as National have promised to do. So the new labour PM
    elected to replace Ardern will be simply a caretaker. To be otherwise
    would require the reversal of their death-warrant legislation and that
    is truly inconceivable.


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    Crash McBash

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  • From John Bowes@21:1/5 to Crash on Thu Jan 19 12:25:19 2023
    On Friday, January 20, 2023 at 8:21:45 AM UTC+13, Crash wrote:
    It seems clear that Ardern over the summer break has concluded that
    both she and Labour are not popular as they once were and that the
    effort required to arrest that decline is more than she wants to take
    on or face up to. She has taken the honourable but humbling option to
    give up and retire. Recent PMs that have done the same are John Key
    and David Lange, recent PMs that have not are Helen Clark, Jim Bolger
    and RD Muldoon. Other recent PMs (English, Shipley, Palmer and Moore)
    were not in office long enough to consider.

    The role of PM involves constant political pressure and personal
    sacrifice on the part of private (family) life. No-one can sustain
    this role permanently - it takes a sense of achievement to counter the downside and eventually achievement no longer sustains the will to
    continue.

    Talk of the 'Ardern legacy' annoys the hell out of me. Such talk is
    the stuff of future historians - not today's journalists - because it
    takes time into a new era to properly evaluate a past era.

    The question now is where to for Labour? They have no way forward to
    arrest their slide in popularity because their death sentence is now enshrined as an Act, not a Bill. The only way forward is for the
    government elected later this year to repeal the 5-waters Acts in
    their entirety as National have promised to do. So the new labour PM
    elected to replace Ardern will be simply a caretaker. To be otherwise
    would require the reversal of their death-warrant legislation and that
    is truly inconceivable.


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    Crash McBash
    Well put as always Crash. Ardern has done the best thing she could have done in the last five years. Personally I don't think she ever had anything in the tank except a glib tongue and a propensity to lie. I'm hoping Hipkins will get the job despite one
    call for a PM with Maori roots for the simple reason that'd give the job to Mahuta and the good lord knows what damage she could do to the country!

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