Thanks Alex. I only have my phone at the moment so I’ll be brief. I basically agree and have thought before I should do the historical numbers on this. Your input is a reminder. Cheers
Thanks for this Grant! Your writing has always impressed me - keep up the good work! I'm hoping that NZ political pundits may write lucidly and without fear or favour about the enduring Big Lie of New Zealand politics, that National will no doubt punt in the lead-up to the election - that they (national) do better at managing the New Zealand economy. This is simply untrue - and methinks needs to get more firmly ensconced in Kiwi political discourse. If you look, for instance, at GDP growth: data covering 28 years of National-led governments and 26 years of Labour-led governments, shows that per capita GDP growth under Labour is more than double than that under National; and the whole country's GDP growth under Labour is about 5% greater. Wouldn't it be good to cut out much of the self-aggrandising and misleading BS this election cycle?
May I suggest that you're just the person to do this! By the way, I written to Nicola Willis to please explain - no reply of course.
Thanks Alex. I only have my phone at the moment so I’ll be brief. I basically agree and have thought before I should do the historical numbers on this. Your input is a reminder. Cheers
Thanks for this Grant! Your writing has always impressed me - keep up the good work! I'm hoping that NZ political pundits may write lucidly and without fear or favour about the enduring Big Lie of New Zealand politics, that National will no doubt punt in the lead-up to the election - that they (national) do better at managing the New Zealand economy. This is simply untrue - and methinks needs to get more firmly ensconced in Kiwi political discourse. If you look, for instance, at GDP growth: data covering 28 years of National-led governments and 26 years of Labour-led governments, shows that per capita GDP growth under Labour is more than double than that under National; and the whole country's GDP growth under Labour is about 5% greater. Wouldn't it be good to cut out much of the self-aggrandising and misleading BS this election cycle?
May I suggest that you're just the person to do this! By the way, I written to Nicola Willis to please explain - no reply of course.
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