GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – MMP is to blame – not Jacinda
My theory is that Jacinda was correct to blame MMP, if blame must be placed anywhere.
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My theory is that Jacinda was correct to blame MMP, if blame must be placed anywhere.
The debate about the CGT is in full flow but it’s mainly hot air that ignores where capital gains come from in the first place.
I’m really curious to know how you can have the politics of fairness based on the economics of selfishness.
That’s what you can take out of the Labour NZ First rejection of a Capital Gains Tax in any shape or form.
There’s probably some percentage of Labour voters thinking of going Green after the no CGT decision.The inequity, the unfairness, the feeling of loss, that a surrender came and stole victory at the last moment from the righteous fixers of the problem.
Unless National embrace a running mate to go into the next election, they are dead in the water.
Ever since Mike Hosking raised his hands to calm down the stewing National Party wildebeests on 13th February 2019 and declared that there was no need to panic about one rogue poll, more rogue polls have confirmed the first one.
Nobody gives a shit what Simon Bridges said in 2018, and now the much heralded National Party policy platforms the partisan media boasted would even the score in 2019 seem to have evaporated into Jacinda star dust.
As those of you who generously contributed to the making of my upcoming crowd funded documentary TRADE SECRETS will know, I decided to delay the finishing of it until March 29th which was the original Brexit date.
Once people in New Zealand heard the accusations repeated by their favourite sources of opinion ( Twitter celebrities, corporate MSM and of course – comedians ) – more than ten times…it became a fact in their minds.