Willis Delivers Election Budget With Bank Tax Hammer, Winston Wins Big and Surplus Promises
National has shown they can manage the books better than Labour but the new bank tax is a reminder that fiscal discipline is still a work in progress.
National has shown they can manage the books better than Labour but the new bank tax is a reminder that fiscal discipline is still a work in progress.
This budget is the test. Will Nicola Willis pass it, or will she keep pretending the spending party never happened? Kiwis are watching.
The only way Winston can continue to make gains is by staying with the present coalition. Therefore my bet is the coalition will be re-elected and Winston will play a part.
If National keeps this up, they risk handing Winston an even stronger hand in post-election negotiations. Attacking him now could exact a fair bit of utu later.
Will they support the bill to define biological sex in law all the way?
The category conspicuously absent from Woke’s hierarchy of victimhood.
For a party that spent six years telling us they were kind and caring, this recording rips the mask off.
Chris Hipkins believes we don’t really care about the details re the Future Fund. What an abjectly ignorant little prat! This is one of his party’s cornerstone policies yet he expects that we will blindly vote for it because we are supposedly not interested in the details.
New Zealand has seen this movie before. Flashy announcements followed by vague costing and eventual disappointment. The Future Fund is simply the latest installment.
This is shabby politics from Willis. Attacking Peters yet again because she can. It is all too obvious. She is building a case to have a crack at Luxon when the polls do not improve for National.
If National reads these poll results, they might realise how out of touch they are with their voter base. The ‘woke’ MPs, including the PM, need to ditch their nonsense, grow a spine and start giving their supporters not only what they voted for but, what, in fact, they campaigned on.
The public is tired of endless bureaucracy and wants results, not more recycled promises.
If Labour leads the next government, He Puapua will undoubtedly be back at full throttle – even though Hipkins will undoubtedly not mention it by name.
National has run out of time. They cannot keep hoping the polls will turn.
New Zealand went into these talks wanting dairy and came out with crumbs and a migration side-door.