On 2023-08-16, Crash <
nogood@dontbother.invalid> wrote:
In a post earlier today I brought attention to an article by Peter
Dunne in Newsroom that highlighted popularity as a justification for
their policy to remove GST from fruit and veges. From this it seems
that Labour's campaign for re-election revolves around finding all
those wildly-popular policies, regardless of effectiveness.
Most significantly, they seem to be ignoring the single biggest
advantage that a governing party seeking re-election has - their
record of achievement in Government and the need to ensure even
greater success by voting for them instead of the other lot. It is as
if the Ardern-led governments are not worthy of mention. Has this
ever happened before I wonder? I was not in NZ for the 1990 election.
In my view, the leader has most of the "charm" (or dis-taste) of the Party/Government. The media focus on the leader and hence what she/he says.
Sure thing this and the pervious election has been missed up by Covid.
Putting a spin on what thet did is somewhat hard, certainly not best done as
it will draw attention to the actions of the past, which are hard to defend.
In the same area as co-governace.
We are in the lolly scramble phase of the election and this always is saying what the electorate likes to hear.
It does appear that the Government has no firm poliices, National likewise
in places with this GST on food and veg. Seems more like a game of poker
than what we would like to do if we got into Government.
Interesting times indeed.
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