From Newsgroup: nz.general
On 12 Aug 2025 23:49:04 GMT, Gordon <
Gordon@leaf.net.nz> wrote:
On 2025-08-12, Crash <nogood@dontbother.invalid> wrote:
https://tinyurl.com/yc4kr2te
National are simply not getting their message across: they are
failing to convince those being polled that they are 'fixing the
economy'.
Getting the economy fixed takes time and the voters want everything to be >fixed by the end of the month. It is a great deal easier, and quicker, to >destory something than fix it or construct it.
With two budgets done now - there is no progress being made.
With more money (income) the Government will be able to fix and improve more >things. NZ needs to start to have a debate about how to share the greater
tax burden. There are hint that this is coming but it will be a long
process.
It should be possible, in a 3-year term, to show progress. The
current Government is not.
Based on this, National's election hopes rest not on their policy and
performance record, but on the hope that the voters see
Labour/Green/Maori Party as even worse.
This is typically the case. Voters throw Governments out because they are
not doing well, not that the other parties have something better to offer.
Except that in 2026 the other parties will be Labour, the watermelons
and the Maori Party. Labour is OK in that Hipkins tried to jettison
policies adopted by them under Ardern's leadership, but the
watermelons and the Maori parties are extremist in the core
principles.
That sucks.
True, but this is the real world we live in.
If National has some political spine it should be able to counter this
with ease.
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Crash McBash
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