The true austerity that is coming will be the reason Winston quits and calls a snap election
The true level of this Government’s austerity will be seen and felt by the electorate next year and the amputation gangs are starting now…
Ministers already working on next year’s Budget cuts
The Government’s current Budget only took effect on July 1, but ministers have already met to thrash out the shape of Budget 2025, Acting Prime Minister and Associate Minister David Seymour confirmed.
The current Budget included $1.5 billion in annual savings from multiple departments. That figure includes savings announced by the new coalition Government and cuts revealed by Labour prior to the election worth about $506.5m a year.
Finance Minister Nicola Willis said at the Budget that “savings and reprioritisation will be a feature of future budgets, just as they have been in Budget 2024″.
When asked about Budget savings on Wednesday, Seymour said it was “fair to say those conversations are very much under way”.
“We have a coalition government … some of our constituent parties are very much ambitious for bigger savings some more cautious,” Seymour said.
…when the enormity of the public service slash becomes apparent, about a month before Winston hands over Deputy PM to David Seymour, he will suddenly have a furious high stakes poker match where he walks from the Government in protest at ACTs extremism.
The deal to Labour will be Chippy can side step having to do a deal with an increasingly extremist Māori Party Nationalism and cut a deal with NZF as long as Winston stays on as Foreign Minister.
The Greens will be sidelined once again and Chloe will be pissed.
The pact with the Austerity Devil this Government has made is apparent yet, but it will be next year and Winston will leverage that for one more shot at staying in power again.
Winston going with Labour to stop austerity is a good thing for ordinary people, right? That’s MMP working in the interests of the majority, right?
Austerity is in the plan because the government borrowed $50billion during covid to save business, banks and landlords. $50billion borrowed and spent into the economy. That money ended up in the pockets of the rich. The austerity plan is to have the loan repaid by govt service cuts, user pays fees (like car rego) and more income tax on working people.
Or it could be retrieved from the people who ended up with the $50billion. WHO HAS THE COVID $50 BILLION?
Why would chippy join up with the old coot .He was a hand brake in the first 3 years and covid the handbrake in the second .Surely chippy is not that desperate and is fully aware that winny is still hell bent on lynching him and jacinda for saving 20k people from death .I note the UK government has been slamed for following the right wing way during covid and killing 230k .
Why would Chippy still be around for goodness sake is that the best they can do. Pathetic!
The split Deputy PM arrangement in the CoC Govt. obviously promoted a chance for some instability when Winston had to face handing his mana on a plate over to Atlas Dave.
At this remove the likely scenario will be Winston withdrawing confidence, leading to an election. Rather than supporting a Labour led option he would be more likely to “leave it in the hands of the voters”. Which would be a great if Labour, Greens and TPM got their act together after New Zealanders have felt the effects of CoC.
Winston will not go quietly in any event is my pick.
Nationals debt will be 100% of GDP by 2050 .Remember the economy will have shrunk by 19% over the years from now till then .So the nacts will be borrowing hard out to prop up the failing rich as the poor will have nothing left to steal .
We need to improve the productivity of NZ if we’re going to survive and prosper in the future and the area where we can make the most improvements is in the central government bureaucracy and the regulations they want to impose on the rest of us.
We’ve seen the results everywhere from Pharmac spending half its time hand-wringing about implementation of the Treaty to the Ministry of Education demanding that pre-schools have written emergency plans for when an apple might fall from a tree on to a child (no kidding).
The inherent problem with bureaucracies is that they spend most of their time inventing reasons to become bigger and more intrusive. Now is the time to bring out the pruning shears to make space for some real growth.
Oh yeah the old improve productivity and it will trickle down theory, doesn’t work and bmnever has. Any other theories.
Winston Peters has always been a small government, low tax and privatisation kind of guy. He was on the (economic) right of the National Party when he first entered Parliament in 1979. He is an admirer of Margaret Thatcher. The guy has shown his true colours in the few years. He has finally come home.
Yep he is more likely to join his riff raff with daves mongrel lot and go hard out to try to gain control of the right because Nats are bat shit crazy weak managers .The ferrals and the rich pricks would lfind it easy to roll Luxon because they already have him bent over the kitchen table .
Really? I was there. Peters was Muldoons disciple & remains the last stalwart of the pre-neolib National Party. He left the party in the 90s for a reason!
See Winston’s maiden speech in 1979:
https://www.parliament.nz/media/3912/peters-winston-maiden-speech-5-june-1979.pdf
This could have been delivered by a new National Party MP in 2024. Someone like Mauger.
As long as Peters stays in bed with the conspiracy nutters & culture war-promoting dickheads, Labour will never work with him, much less the Greens!