When politicians deny and say they aren’t at all interested in the leadership, they’re lying through their teeth.
Kieran McAnulty has long been rumoured to have a hankering for the Labour Party’s leadership. It’s pretty much an open secret around Wellington that when Chris Hipkins manages to secure a golden parachute then McAnulty will step up.
The fact he is denying pretty much confirms that he’s running:
This is not the sign of a collapsing government. It is the sign of a media desperate to inject uncertainty where the numbers show strength.
Isn’t capitalism and democracy history’s most powerful driver of human progress? By incentivising innovation and rewarding efficiency, haven’t free markets and democracy shifted NZ into a more egalitarian country?
That means there is currently a broken promise of $295,200,000 per annum with the 1,476 extra staff.
Nothing is sacred and safe from the cocks-in-frocks weirdos.
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