National-only Government would have focused less on ‘Māori-related issues’ – Nicola Willis
National as a single-party Government would have focused less on “Māori-related issues”, according to deputy leader Nicola Willis.
It follows a revealing Mood of the Boardroom survey in which one business leader commended the Government for “some examples of excellent leadership” while noting ”many others are distracting, playing politics with little sense of compelling national issues which must be addressed“.
The survey of 150 chief executives and other business identities found Education Minister Erica Stanford was again ranked Cabinet’s most impressive member. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon slid from sixth last year to 15th, while Willis as Finance Minister dropped from third-equal to 13th.
During a question-and-answer session following the survey’s release this morning, Willis was asked what National would have done differently in Government if it hadn’t needed Act or New Zealand First as coalition partners.
“Look, I think you would have seen less focus on Māori-related issues, that’s a blunt but bold assessment,” she responded.
You know shit just got real when the rich alphas of the NZ CEO conclave have turned so hard on this Government’s economic agenda that National are now backing away from the culture war revenge fantasies masquerading as social policy.
Willis claims it was all terrible ACT and NZF for the radioactive anti-Māori, anti-Treaty, anti-vaccine, anti-trans culture war bullshit that has sucked all the energy and attention from the Government as the economy melts down.
I call bullshit on that.
It was LUXON’S fault all that garbage was included.
Remember how Luxon was touted as the great deal maker?
Remember how Luxon was this incredible CEO who would negotiate a great deal to build NZ?
Turns out Luxon was a spineless clown who got played by Winston and David.
This Blog would constantly make the joke:
“The quick yellow fox will leap all over the stupid blue log”
And all of that has come to pass.
The warning signs were there that Luxon didn’t have the wit nor intelligence to comprehend how he was getting played by Seymour and Winston and he hasn’t had any courage to reign either of them in.
All of this toxic culture war revenge fantasy garbage is on National, they can’t pretend it’s ACT and NZF’s fault because they enabled it!
The fact that this may well be a one term Government is a tragedy to NZ Politics because it will have highlighted what a waste of time the last 2 years has been and the needless damage it has caused.
Snap election now!
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While I agree that there should be a snap election I don’t think there will be.
Luxon and Willis desperately need another year to try to turn the economy round which is Nationals only hope for re-election.
Seymour still has a long list of things to do.
Peters needs the next year to increasingly distance himself from the government and promote NZF as the central, sensible party, able to work with anyone.
While I do not wish for it to happen it would be interesting to see how a weak kneed leader like Hipkins would deal with the god like attitude of the Greens leaders and the race hating TPM leaders.
But the race hating ACT party are in power and the economy is shit Trevor what say you?
Best to ignore Trevor. He clearly hasn’t read the column given this isn’t about Labour, the Greens or Te Pati Maori. It will be when they form the government next year due to the utter incompetence of the National Coalition and it’s tanking of New Zealands economy.
NZ is an inherently racist country these are facts not trying to hate on pakeha who visit this blog but political marketing to getting voters on side the plan is to appeal to these sentiments to the majority, and it works. I said before the election that the right was promoting white nationalism to get in to power to push through austerity measures meanwhile exasperating culture wars as a distraction to the easily manipulated sheeples. The Labour party aren’t blameless for giving the right ammunition to push these divisive tactics.
Obviously, the CEOs see Stanford as the best of a bad bunch but their positioning of her at the top, suggests they don’t really know what goes on in the average classroom, like the minister herself.
She takes her advice from people who loved school when they were there. They were successful and found little about school that didn’t please them and help them. It suits some people.
The various CEOs all had happy, successful times at school too.
A significant number of people do not have fun at school. They have problems with their health, problems at home or with poverty at home, problems getting on with people, problems with authority and learning problems. There are a lot of people for whom school is tricky, to say the least.
Stanford doesn’t seem to have acknowledged those people yet. Her plans are all very generalised. The devil is in the detail and if after 5 years of her regime, results have vastly improved, I’ll be very surprised.
If we don’t fix the underlying problems, the end result will be much the same.
Making her announcements in the company of clean, well-behaved young children in a nicely appointed classroom bears no resemblance to the reality facing most classroom teachers almost every day of the week. The minister make herself look foolish and naive with her infant classroom appearances.
The CEOs are as naive as the minister.
Well put.
Under that rosie exterior is a nasty white washing colonist .Another of the mean mouthed women ministers in this government .
Yes, correct Gordon and the mood of the board ranked her high as she is bringing money there way they want government contracts for private businesses to make them richer, it’s a shift towards privatisation of our education system.
And further to Joy is the one inescapable fact about education for people who have been able to learn, use, and enjoy the fruits of it. It hasn’t been the blind bit of good for society or leading them along the right paths to a satisfactory life that is sustainable anywhere in the world; what we have been learning is just the basics for modern adventurers and pirates. Teaching for a competitive life, as if it was a sport and those who can get the ball and run with it is not what a society needs as a foundation for operating EFFICIENTLY AND EFFECTIVELY – those over-used meretricious economic-jargon words.
Look at outcomes from now on. Will the theoretical system produce the outcomes desired? And then look at yourselves and the people you cluster with, like cluster flies, they sound, look horrible things. But people clusters could be good. But think, will there be good or bad resulting from the posited plan? And which cluster is deciding?
I think these words encapsulate the present neolib pollies of all sorts, they are -peevish, arrogant, sneering and class-oriented ie money-magnetised. Money, wealth, is such a strong reward for output of personal energy that we must learn to look for different rewards with known guaranteed outcomes. Money is just a sort of voucher, and precious materials paid are only worthy if valued. We have been valuing the wrong things for too long, we aren’t simple children are we? Step down from our high-chairs!!
New grouping with the slogan of Good Cheer, My Dear would set those adopting it on the right track. Sounds folksy and unsophisticated? Good, we have had enough of that. smart alik stuff appealing to some artificial urge in us; get back to simple and wise, sort of happy peasant outlook – peasants were sturdy and wise often. Read Terry Pratchett and look for analogies! Could we start a new wave of thinking now and get it talked about first with derision; but could it bring about political green shoots to smile about at Christmas?? Add them to the holly and the ivy and think about the kids and future. Think, and act well.
The Holly and the Ivy, very sweet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH9vSBrK-OI
YES a snap election NOW before any more damage can be done and Seymour gets more of his anti-people/pro Atlas cr&p into legislation. The sooner we shut him down the better – he may even leave the country – hallelujah! The level of racism from this CoC is truly deplorable and even now, belatedly, Willis is hinting a National only govt would not have gone down that same racist road – really! Of course we can take this with a grain of salt as she is blaming everyone except her and Luxon’s own lack of integrity, brainpower, and staggering absence of discernment.
Hate for Maoris… and love for certain other folks.
Very disturbing to see the Luxon regime appointing the notorious genocide lobbyist David Cumin to a position where he can attack medical scientists who question whether his people have the right to rape and murder Palestinian children for fun.
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/appointments-health-regulatory-authorities
All Luxon needs to do is declare that from 2026 he “will not work with the far-right, race-baiting extremists in the ACT Party” as to do so would be counter to the interests of NZ as a whole. Problem solved. That would at least give him a leg to stand on if he tried suggesting that Labour should not work with TPM. However, he has already suggested the latter, and has no intention of doing the former, so he’s a contemptible hypocrite.
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