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The vast, vast, vast number of Kiwis who don’t have a Herald subscription won’t hear this story and other media don’t bother competing for the story if it’s behind a PayWall.
If this had been an exclusive on any other news organisation, it would be leading the Breakfast news bulletins.
It isn’t.
Jacinda and Grant will be praying to the PayWall today.
Right wing climate deniers will snarl this is just another report from delusional lefties, however, that’s not true…
The Climate Crisis demands we radically shift from dairy but we don’t, so the bottom of the market falling out of the entire industry may well be the impetus for change.
The spectre of the last crash and how close it came to plunging the NZ Shire into Mordor haunts The Reserve Bank, Orr can’t forget that fear as he battles the banks.
Labour & Green voters don’t need to be so tribal about this – Treasury fucked up, not the Government!
Brian Tamaki is not the messiah, he’s just a very stupid boy but the only winner of pink on pink friendly fire is him – he comes across as less nasty than the latest rainbow schism – it’s like social media was created to show us at our worst to our political enemies.
Tribalism aside – If you look at the fine print, the budget was NOT transformational and it makes the politics of kindness seem like a sick joke.
I’m not nearly as clever as my woke comrades on Twitter, but wtf is ‘beltway’ about Treasury knowing they weren’t hacked but then telling everyone they were? Shouldn’t we be incandescent with rage at such a manufactured deception by one of the most powerful Government Departments?
Labour are lucky that the Treasury mishandling of the budget has become the story rather than the fine print reading of the budget because the lack of anything remotely representing transformation would have killed voters who had put their hopes into Jacinda’s politics of kindness. The truth is this budget falls far short of anything meaningful.
At some stage, the Government have to bow to your demands, and seeing as the ‘transformational budget’ was about as transformative as a lump of coal, you are the last chance progressive NZ has to show people power is the only truly transformative force in politics.