The Government needs a far better communications plan, their selling of the budget was woeful, and they need to put together a strategy to ram through public service reform so that they can actually get policy adopted rather than resisted.
The problem of having power defined by convention is if you get an individual who isn’t prepared to follow that convention.
There is a real danger now that this will be a one term Government, if Judith takes power, the plan is to unleash a right wing anger which will be extreme. No one on our side of the political fence has any comprehension of what is building.
This is a public service that does the public a disservice. they have been so run down and underfunded they are a toothless watchdog that has become a lapdog to those they are supposed to guard against.
In the wake of Ireland’s historic and righteous abortion reform, NZ is once again looking like the book burner in a library – if Ireland can find the courage, why can’t NZ update its ridiculous laws on abortion?
The neoliberal public service that Shane Jones was recently blasting is there to do as little as possible while building their own fiefdoms. All we have leant from them is that they are as useless at looking after cows as they are beneficiaries and miners.
No wonder National are starting to panic.
News out overnight that Trump has walked away from the North Korean summit shouldn’t surprise anyone more than the original announcement of the summit.
your gracefulness at offering your resignation for this phone call on a plane only makes you a better human being and leader.
Labour have just sent this out to their Northcote support team, and if true could be one of the biggest upsets in a safe National electorate since Winston took Northland!