NZ First

[Lilith7]

Just like in NZ, she can't work alone. Jacinda is the figurehead, but what she does has the backing of her party. And when National talk of tax cuts, hopefully the plan will include how to pay for them so we avoid the UK problems. Which we would avoid to some extent anyway since we aren't that important on the world stage. We do, however, still need to be able to balance our own books.

Balancing the books isn't the problem - balancing the books and maintaining the level of service that New Zealanders demand is the problem...  

and if you don't provide that level of service you will get the boot... it's pretty simple.  

I would like to think these days people tend to vote with their smarts, not based on wishy washy promises and election bribes.  One advantage of an aging population is most voters have been around long enough to see who is genuine and who is not, to see through the spin and BS.

If the news has it right, the Nats are going to look after those who are struggling; they're being very socially responsible. They're simply going to ask all those wonderfully generous, benevolent people out there, to donate to that particular aim.

I'm afraid that I laughed. Apparently, it is entirely true that we get more cynical as we get older...