From Newsgroup: nz.general
On 18 Sep 2025 22:49:21 GMT, Gordon <
Gordon@leaf.net.nz> wrote:
On 2025-09-18, Crash <nogood@dontbother.invalid> wrote:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/573459/former-finance-minister-sir-roger-douglas-calls-for-finance-minister-nicola-willis-to-resign?cid=newsletter
The Coalition Government needs to recognise they are not succeeding.
National in particular need to recognise this is their biggest risk to
failure at the 2026 election. National (Luxon in particular) need to
focus. They are NOT currently delivering.
Or is it just a slow delivery?
True this "recovery" is perceived as not happening and an election is 12 >months away. So what is needed is some short term fixes before the election >or some explanation from the Government which the voters agree with. an >element of spin.
Certainly some focus is required so that the coalition Government is not >tossed out.
Luxon needs to show that he, and the Government is in leadership mode and >that the country needs to have faith and follow him.
Luxon showed a lot of promise based on his prior business world
success, however unlike John Key, this has not translated well into
political leadership. Having said that - look at the Labour caucus -
their exposure to employment in private enterprises (ie outside the
civil service, Parliament, universities etc) is severely lacking. At
least most senior National MPs have had significant careers in private employment prior to becoming an MP.
National have done nothing about debt reduction (to debt that rose significantly under prior governments, that now is incurring
significantly increased debt-servicing costs) and have made no
progress at all in trimming back the excessive expansion of the civil
service under Labour governments. Yes they have done good stuff since
elected, but that has stalled because they have run out of simple
solutions and need to be making the hard decisions.
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Crash McBash
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