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Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards FOUR-YEAR PARLIAMENTARY TERM PROPOSAL Andrew Geddis (Spinoff): The strings attached to the four-year parliamentary term proposal, explained Jenna Lynch (Stuff): Four-year term of government: how would it work? Luke Malpass (Post): Four-year terms, but what’s the catch? (paywalled) Justin Wong (Post): Labour: Four-year
If this government doesn’t get all DOGE on government expenditure, then they are probably toast. Managing the economic decline, albeit slightly better than Labour, isn’t a solution.
In an era marked by rapid social change and uncertainty, Conservatism provides an anchor, ensuring that progress is made thoughtfully and without disrupting the fabric of society.
This is a fairly simple play but the Labour Party is filled with exceptionally simple people who fail to make the simple plays time and time again. It is almost as if they want to maintain Luxon in place.
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards CITIZEN’S ARREST POWERS, CRIME, JUSTICE Andrew Geddis and Henry Benson-Pope (Spinoff): The many, many problems with the plan to expand citizen’s arrest powers RNZ: Police Association slams beefed-up citizen arrest powers AJ Hendry: New arrest laws: Negligent & dangerous Adam Pearse (Herald)
After the train crash interview with Mike Hosking, it seems certain that Luxon’s time as prime minister may have come to an end.
Politicians need allies and they need factions. Those are the people others have to go through to get to the king. Does Christopher Luxon have any loyalists?
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards REGIONAL ECONOMIC ZONES, ENERGY Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Government mulls bespoke regional tax and concessions to spur growth (paywalled) RNZ: Special economic zones could boost NZ's fuel security - energy minister Tom Pullar-Strecker (The Post): Marsden Point set to become NZ's
Politics can get way too serious at times, so it’s always a bit of fun to do something different once in a while.
Anyone with even just casual knowledge of such ‘progressive activists’ will know there isn’t a cat-in-hell’s chance of them changing track, since the whole point is to go around being right while everyone else is wrong and possessing a total intolerance of any divergence of opinion from their own.
Luxon has already lost those he has shafted and now he is losing those who will lose their seats because he is so unpopular.
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards ANDREW BAYLY Jo Moir (RNZ): Three days' grace for Andrew Bayly raises more questions Claire Trevett (Herald): Christopher Luxon doesn’t give third chances – why Andrew Bayly didn’t stand a chance of staying on as minister (paywalled) Luke Malpass (Post): The curious
