03-12-2021, 03:41 PM
The danger with these overwhelmingly business-focused leaders is that they exist in a very blinkered space. It's all very cut and dry with them, money in, money out, but that's very different to running a country. It's not a business with a team of 5 million. You can't fire the lazy ones. You can't give the assets a new paint job and pretend it's better. Not sure if this analogy is about planes or the National Party...
See that he was prattling on about how Auckland should be at green today which despite being an very obvious example of Politicking 101, it does come across as being completely out-of-touch with, well, reality. He really does need to be careful with the numpty comments - there's a limit to what people can wilfully ignore. The flip-flopping centrists and undecideds aren't dumb and they do need more than just a bald man barking at the moon.
See that he was prattling on about how Auckland should be at green today which despite being an very obvious example of Politicking 101, it does come across as being completely out-of-touch with, well, reality. He really does need to be careful with the numpty comments - there's a limit to what people can wilfully ignore. The flip-flopping centrists and undecideds aren't dumb and they do need more than just a bald man barking at the moon.