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Sunday, August 4, 2024

David Farrar: Audrey’s Cabinet Ratings


Audrey Young rates the Cabinet Ministers out of 10 for their performance. Her ratings are:

  • 9/10 – Chris Bishop, Simeon Brown, Erica Stanford
  • 8/10: Chris Luxon, Winston Peters, Nicola Willis, Paul Goldsmith, David Seymour, Karen Chhour
  • 7/10 – Shane Reti, Judith Collins, Mark Mitchell, Todd McClay, Simon Watts, Chris Penk, Andrew Bayly, Brooke van Velden, Nicole McKee, Shane Jones
  • 6/10 – Louise Upston, Tama Potato[sic], Matt Dooley, Andrew Hoggard
  • 5/10 – Nicola Grigg, Casey Costello, Mark Patterson
  • 4/10 – Penny Simmonds
  • 3/10 – Melissa Lee
I look forward to her ratings of the Shadow Cabinet!

David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Christopher Luxon rates an 8?

Gimme a break!

The epitaph on his tombstone will undoubtedly read: “If you want nothing done, Christopher Luxon is just the man for it.”

Strong leaders tell the truth and do what needs to be done, even if this comes at the price of a certain personal unpopularity.

Weak leaders simply want everyone to like them, and act accordingly.

Or not, as the case may be.

Anonymous said...

Indeed, anon@9.21, the Narcissist in Chief is grossly undeserving of such a high rating, and Bishop & Stanford are also overrated - the latter especially so given the glacial speed of her addressing the woke ideology indoctrination.

Basil Walker said...

Simon Watts is the odd man out in the 7/10. The Ministry of Environment and appendages is where a strong Parliament would agree to disagree with ideology and alarmists and quietly disband the Ministry, NOTHING of truth and science would change in NZ or the world .

Anonymous said...

Luxon an 8 for dealing with the economy of NZ .
Zero for dealing with the biggest issue in NZ since the Second World War - the destruction of democracy, and the racial disintegration of the best little country in the South Pacific.
His legacy is going to an even bigger mess than the one that Ardern left behind.