Thoughts on the budget?

[Nick G]

Dollars dollars everywhere

[Jeffa]

Dollars dollars everywhere

Nothing dramatically game changing, buy the time they get close to building 8000 state houses there will be closer to 25,000 plus on the waiting list.

A few token gestures to their coalition partners and core voter base.

Relatively boringly conservative budget.

Suits me.

[PC]

Why dig a $50B hole when you can dig a $200B one? $109K per household - ouch!
Will Twytford be on the job to build the 8,000 new houses?

[Perry]

No - but he'll have help.

[Beano]

Why dig a $50B hole when you can dig a $200B one? $109K per household - ouch!
Will Twytford be on the job to build the 8,000 new houses?

Per property investor $250k :-)

[PC]

Three years for 1535 houses "scheduled for delivery".
So another 8,000 should be done in well under 13 years.

[PC]

Funny or very, very scary?

[Davo36]

Don't forget that Stuart Nash and Shane Jones got cameras on commercial fishing boats stopped too. NZ First gets a lot of money from the commercial fishing lobby... coincidence?

[jack2016]

Hmm is Act a good choice to vote for?

[Perry]

The stark reality is that they are all much the same.

Once, gNats were blue and politically to-the-right. (pro-business, etc.)

Once, Labour was red and politically to-the-left. (pro-unionism, etc.)

Now, nudged towards the (so-called) middle-ground, they're both a sort of muddy-brown.

For those forumites not familiar with the colour wheel, mixing blue plus yellow = green.

In NZ politics, mixing red plus blue is brown. Or that close that it does not matter.

Brown is representative of mud, dirty rivers and is a colour that obscures. Something almost impossible to see though.

Brown is also the colour of something else, much less polite to refer to. (Those who think they are special think their browns do not stink.)

Either way, we are interred. (Fred Dagg)

[McDuck]

…..The stark reality is that they are all much the same....

Yep, it's so annoying that nothing fits into tidy nice little blue or red boxes.

Probably because some issues are intertwined with others.

And many of the calamities a government must solve are global in nature.

A hurricane, for example, requires neither a red or blue response.

But when you just want to quickly vote, by ticking a few boxes, it's a real drag.