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# Gower Let Down by ‘Transformational’ Government
- URL: https://goodoil.news/gower-let-down-by-transformational-government/
- Published: 2019-06-20T01:00:53.000Z
- Updated: 2019-07-08T05:02:14.000Z
- Author: Juana Atkins
- Tags: Media, NZ, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 04:14

Ex-political reporter Patrick Gower has been let down by the Coalition government which has not delivered all the change it had promised and that he had predicted they would deliver.

> Former Newshub political editor Patrick Gower has revealed the worst call he has ever made in his career.

> On October 19, 2017, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters announced, as the election’s king-maker, that he would form a Government with Labour – ending National’s nine years in power.

> Peters said keeping National on top would have meant a “modified status quo” versus **creating “change”** with Labour, who would give capitalism back “its human face”.

> Gower, Newshub’s political editor at the time, said the new Government could be **summed up with one word: “Change”.**

> “Change – complete change. **The new Government will totally change New Zealand’s politics and its economy,**” Gower wrote in an opinion piece.

> But Gower, who admitted he was “excited and hopeful” at the time, has now revealed that that call was **the “worst” he has ever made.**

> \[…\] “I apologise to everyone who saw it and read it, because we see it is patently not true.”

Gower then goes on to list the promised changes that never eventuated.

- Drastic immigration cut by up to 30,000,
- The government building 100,000 homes
- Foreign buyers being banned from obtaining homes and farms

What New Zealand got instead, immigration-wise, was a **net gain** of 70,700 compared to October 2016\. As for building 100,000 homes, so far the grand total is **only 119** which is **881 short** of the promised 1000 homes meant to have been built by July 1st.

> A capital gains tax was also ruled out – something supporters of the Government believed would dramatically change New Zealand’s tax system.  
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