The problem for a National/ACT Government – would markets do a Liz Truss?
The policy difference between Labour and the Greens is almost 90% the same, but the policy difference between National and ACT are light years apart.
With ACT in double digits, they are a constant existential threat to National and because Luxon is so weak, he will agree to any of the crazy far right policy ACT want to implement and it is far right nonsense on meth.
- A billion into more prisons and detention camps
- Near flat tax fantasy
- Amputation of 5 Ministry’s plus closing the Human Rights Commission plus billions slashed from welfare plus a referendum to rewrite the Treaty with no negotiation to Māori.
- Destroy Gun register so gun fetishists can legally masturbate to their favourite guns again.
It’s libertarian gibberish with culture war dog trumpets thrown in for shits and giggles, but as we saw with Liz Truss when she attempted to implement the same types of free market bullshit in the UK, the Market itself revolted.
If ACT and National attempted to implement half of this policy platform it would lead to vast civil disobedience on top of the Markets doing the exact same thing to NZ that they did to the UK.
The reality is that the ACT agenda is so radical and the National Party so weak you understand why there is a serious attempt within National to get Shane Jones an Epsom Cup of Tea deal in Northland so as to put a hand break on ACT.
David Seymour and Winston hate each other, like despise each other so the idea that a Labour led minority Government with a supply and confidence arrangement with the Maori Party would be a ‘Coalition of Chaos’, totally ignores the ‘Alliance of Anarchy’ where Winston and David spend 3 years trying to kill each other off while Luxon sits crying in the middle like a stunned mullet.
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Pretty apt description I would say.
The markets protested because they wanted more spending cuts to go with the Truss tax cuts
Peter’s and Seymour have a common goal – to get rid of current Government. So I think they would both be prepared to swallow Dead Rats to achieve that goal.
Besides ACT are all puff and huff and won’t make most of those changes. They will just want line by line accountability of each Government Department.
You left the ‘N’ out of ‘CUTS’…….
Government buracrats getting the heave ho would go down well with lots of people .If N/Act were in power it would mean most of the working class had backed them so no comeback there . Some maori may be unhappy but what is new and those that work will not want to jeopardize their job by marching . With so many made hungry and home less by this Labour government there will be little to protest about .
“With so many made hungry and home less by this Labour government there will be little to protest about .”
Have you got the numbers made hungry available?
Trevor sounds like you and many voters want to Make NZ Great Again.
Farm fence as always, how yey goin, compulsory unionism, what a knowing wage care, union its the law boss , have to be, gutless.. who you.
Our care, shall be targeted, slash and burn old school, nat farm fence.