There’s no way Nicola Willis will be Finance Minister in National’s Government – The smart yellow fox will jump over the lazy blue log

1. “You vote National, you get ACT Far Right Policy.”
   Sold! The only thing I dislike about ACT policy is raising the retirement age which I think will cost them votes. They should lower the age of KiwiSaver funds access by the same amount that they raise the retirement age to balance it out in my opinion.

   • They should raise the retirement age for Boomers only then put it back down for next generations. The boomers have got some major societal payback to achieve as reparations for the mess they have caused.

     • Not all Boomers are responsible or are the same.

       I am so sick of that trope. Some us knowingly and willingly supported others and did the right thing (Not buying investment properties because of the social harm it caused, always voting for the underdog, donating time and money to others) even though we were wealthy enough not to do so.

       We also largely came from working class stock so we worked hard for our money. Working 2 jobs was the norm in both my and my parents generations (personally and for others). An average paying job during the week and 3 or 4 nights a week tending bar. That was how you saved for your first house and often how you paid the mortgage back in the days of 15 – 20% interest.

       Things are even harder now because of the rubbish governments we have endured over the last 20 years. But still for most a dedication to hard work and a foregoing of many things we have assumed we must have, most things are still achievable with planning, wider thinking and a little luck.

     • “Boomers” has really become a perjorative term and I deeply resent it. We had a social contract with the government of the day that our taxes paid for our super, education and health care. The state provided the infrastructure and financial institutions so that we could save for our first home – and the majority have only ever had the one home that they are living in. Douglas and Prebble sold us out and created a neoliberal state, gleefully continued by successive Nat governments.

     • Swings and roundabouts. So-called “boomers” worked hard and generated a lot of wealth. 60’s and 70’s NZ governments borrowed heavily especially after the European Common Market came into play in the early 70s and UK and Europe export markets declined significantly. This all had to be paid back and resulted in significant belt-tightening in the 80s and 90s. To blame the average person born between 1946 and 1965 who is retired now is petty and could come back to bite millennials and zoomers in the future based on their general lack of productivity in my opinion.

     • all boomers? the ones living in poverty the lifelong victims of the neo-lib dream that gave you your spoilt entitled tech heavy childhood, they were sacrificed on the alter of your parents yuppie greed.
       it’s not generation it’s not race it’s class..how many times before that sinks in ex?

   • ANY ACCESS to kiwisaver before retirement defeats it’s object….

     • Absolutely right.

2. You vote Laobur and you get a non binary Mx Swarbruck and the Genderfairys of the woke and very much lunatic Green Party. Sucks to be a voter in NZ does it not?

   • You can always move to Aus no one is forcing you to stay here against your will.

   • It sure does Bratwürschtel. We may end up with Seymour as Minister of Finance. Hmmmm maybe it doesn’t suck after all.

   • Mmmm… bratwurst 🙂

     • worst brat?

3. Labour has not done a lot, part from pissing off many of their voters, since the election … and, no, the Covid response was mixed…as more leaks happen, or the media wake up, and start doing their job, for example, asking tough questions of the Government…the more we learn that the Covid response was not planned well at all…it relied on Kiwis doing the right thing, not the Government.

   • Is that you Mike Hoskings? Can i get your autograph?

     • Standalonecomplex — ha,ha, ha.. the statement stands

   • And there is me thinking that the far right encourages people to look after themselves and quote “ do the right thing “. Make up your mind you either want a nanny state or not ??

4. “Once punters realise what the fuck crazy David Seymour can ram past an easily distracted Luxon, the sooner they’ll come back to Labour.

   Labour and Martyn hope so! Fingers crossed, Martyn.

5. Labour are National, just a lot more useless. That’s why we, who thought they were actually going to change things, have given up on them. But voting for Nat/ACT is not the go to and I doubt there will be a return to Labour.

   Either not voting or voting an alternative depending on what’s available on the day is more likely. And I suspect floating voters are returning to National is all that is happening.

   And the Greens as an alternative? God, no. They are at risk of self cancellation!

6. You can always move to Aus no one is forcing you to stay here against your will.

7. You vote Labour you get both the Greens and Maori Party sooooo you’ll get a wealth tax and Zimbabwe-like redistribution policies.

   Nothing Act proposes will scare the sheeple as much as those 2 things. And National/Act will be hammering that issue from now until the election.

   • ACT is and always will be an abomination and Frankie if what you say is true, why isn’t ACT polling in the 30’s if they don’t scare people with their policies?

   • excellent panzerboi we’ll be counting on your vote…and we accept you as a woman, methinks the lady doth protest too much.

   • Zimbabwe? Being a tad dramatic aren;t ya? Perhaps you are a retired Remuera thespian…

8. If the choice is National with Luxon as leader plus Act than do nothing except break promises Labour plus invisible Greens and may be the racist Maori Party I will go for National and Act.
   Why do you keep bringingLuxon’s Christianity into the equation beats me ,Does it make if him evil. Do you know or care what religion any of the other leaders follow .
   The impact Act have will depend on the size of his popular vote and that s the way it should be .The facts are once in power many parties change their stance as can be seen with Labour but it was the same with Naional .I remember pre 2017 election going to an anti TTPA with the Labour speak saying how terrible it was but once elected signed on . One plus to Greens is they do try and stick to their promises when allowed.

   • I bet his religion wouldn’t be an issue for the left if it were Islam

     • How stupid are you, BG? The Lefties in NZ tend more towards Atheism than Islam, I would suspect.
       But you want to divert attention away from Luxon’s attachment to the Upper Room (or is it Higher Room??) Luxon says he hasn’t been to church for ages – but his group don’t have churches. They meet in halls or gyms, etc. So the lying creep pretends he has not been to a church, pretending that he is not religious. Yuck!

9. Aren’t you all forgetting one consideration here…..NZ First, thanks to Mallards tantrum’s gets 8% votes from Labour. National then has a choice who it forms a Govt with and might not need ACT

10. Seymour will a brilliant Finance Minister. For one, he will scrutinise and question every spend and budget for its value. Like every FM should! He won’t piss away 2 million for some consultants here, 150 million for some consultants there, and he’ll get rid of half the bloodsuckers working in Wellington. Good! Either way, after the election there will be a lot of Labour MPs, ‘labour’ consultants and bureaucrats looking for real work.

    • You think? Hahahahaha!

    • The cabbage has fermented to the point of producing alcohol, resulting in severely impaired judgment.

      • Sorry something in me just schnappsed

      • The coward was severely impaired before, nothing he say’s makes sense, this is no exception. Actually his little boy crush on Seymour should be put on the police watch list for offenders.

11. The only question is if Seymour doesn’t drain the swamp but sells it.

12. The Baby Boomers have been both a blessing and a nuisance to the economy over the years. It is the same with any Western country and with any generation. There are always some repercussions for the economy, for the environment, and social changes, etc.

13. You vote for the left you get economically shafted and lectured by rich intellectual snobs who use faux left wing talking points to hide their classist hatred of the working class.

    You vote for the rich you get economically shafted but get to watch and laugh as the right attempts to dismantle the power of the rich classist woke snobs and orgasm over their tantrums.

    Pretty easy choice for the many many many many working class, poor , Maori and pasifika and Asian voters who are by and large socially conservative.

    I personally would die laughing watching the classist wokes panic attacks as they get purged from the bureaucracy.

    But I will never vote national or act.

    • Aren’t they squirming over at The Standard on the horror of ACTs policy on downsizing and closing certain government departments.
      These people (the PMC) have harassed the working class, the “river of filth” mercilessly from their woke pulpit, even down to the cars they drive.

      Now if ACT gets in the PMC might just see what the public actually thinks of them and how important their (invariably) non critical jobs are.
      Not much, not very.
      Tiger Mountain seems to be inciting actual violence against Seymour.

      • If it wasnt for the PMC you so despised, you would still be property of your husband, and he would be beating you every single day.
        In Christianity, it is a husband’s duty to beat his wife.

        • millsy you crack me up, but I do worry about your mental health.

        • millsy, leave it, the guy is simply clueless.

    • I will never vote labor or greens

    • So you want abortion and homosexuality (plus divorce) recriminalised?
      Building prisons to jail transgender people will be expensive.

14. socially conservative maybe but maybe not so economically conservative.

15. ” You vote for the left you get economically shafted and lectured by rich intellectual snobs who use faux left wing talking points to hide their classist hatred of the working class.

    There is no ” left ” just third way neo liberal sympathisers who like to pretend they have a social conscience while they and their privilege look down on the real reason the NZ Labour party was created in 1916 and those attacks and cruelty are dressed up as caring . kindness are being dished out by the party that used to protect the many from the evil of capitalism but SOLD OUT to the very forces the NZLP was formed to protect.

16. The problem with labour is that they could’t run a piss up in a brewery, apart from giving away free beer, and and a sausage sizzle. Then get someone else to pay for it…The more David Seymour puts his policy out the more its obvious he’s a monoculturalist, needs to do an OE and get some cultural training. He will score plenty of own goals, we are not that stupid. National will get in and what an economic mess they will inherit. Nicola willis will be a great finance minister…..

17. Vote for Labour and vote for the party who enriched Luxon more than his wildest dreams.

18. The problem with labour is that they could’t run a piss up in a brewery, apart from giving away free beer, and and a sausage sizzle. Then get someone else to pay for it…The more David Seymour puts his policy out the more its obvious he’s a monoculturalist, needs to do an OE and get some cultural training. He will score plenty of own goals, we are not that stupid. National will get in and what an economic mess they will inherit. Nicola willis will be a great finance minister…..

    • and NZ will increase the speed of it’s path to the plughole under the nats

      HUZZAH

19. When National and ACT get in power, you wont get a payrise for the rest of your career. No sick leave, paid holidays, over time, nor any right to join a union. The same pay level, for the rest of your life.

    But rents, power prices, health care costs (US style health will be imposed), all across the board.

    • And here we are under labour, 3.2 % unemployment , 10% underemployment, highest min wage ever, 10 day sick leave, holiday pay, new stat holiday with Matariki and also homelessness galore, house prices unaffordable as always, rates rising, interest rates rising, cost of living through the roof, kids driving cars into stores, people shooting at each others, crime up, thousands of food parcels handed out every day, hundreds of people warehoused in motels with no end in sight and we are about to sleepwalk into a recession
      People, we are lucky to be ruled by Labour, it could be worse under a different government.

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