The big question around that policy is - did you know that?
Everyone, and I mean everyone, I have talked to that is even contemplating supporting Opportunity can't name a single one of their policies out side of land tax and universal incomes, which ironically, although they were the ideas that got them to prominence, didn’t actually make the so-called "bottom line" reveal.
The main reason so far I have heard for Opportunity support is "something new".
It's as simple as that. They are something new, like trainers in a different colour. You're a bit bored with the status quo so new should be good.
I could go on for hours about how triggering that is for me. But back to the KiwiSaver.
What else do they want? You don’t have a clue.
Oh and while I'm at it, can you name anyone standing for them outside the leader? Have you seen anyone outside the leader at all? Is she the spokesperson for literally everything and does it worry you at all?
If they get 5% that is six MP's. Who are the other five and what if they end up in Cabinet? A similar scenario happened with NZ First years ago. The "tight 5" is what they called them and it was Tuku and co and Hugo Boss undies.
Ask someone older if you don’t know what I'm talking about.
If you think Katie Zacharia is a joke, isn't it worse to vote for people you literally have never heard of, far less checked their ability to, oh I don’t know, run a country?
KiwiSaver is a lifeline for first home buyers. It facilitates a dream for most of us to own our own piece of New Zealand.
Opportunity don’t want that for you. They will ban it. What's that tell you about their ideology?
I don’t mind who you vote for. But what I want for all of us is to vote with intelligence and hopefully some insight that came out of us researching what we are voting for.
How much of what Opportunity are, you wouldn’t have a clue about, and therefore if it works out for them, we end up with a mass dose of buyer's regret.
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
It's as simple as that. They are something new, like trainers in a different colour. You're a bit bored with the status quo so new should be good.
I could go on for hours about how triggering that is for me. But back to the KiwiSaver.
What else do they want? You don’t have a clue.
Oh and while I'm at it, can you name anyone standing for them outside the leader? Have you seen anyone outside the leader at all? Is she the spokesperson for literally everything and does it worry you at all?
If they get 5% that is six MP's. Who are the other five and what if they end up in Cabinet? A similar scenario happened with NZ First years ago. The "tight 5" is what they called them and it was Tuku and co and Hugo Boss undies.
Ask someone older if you don’t know what I'm talking about.
If you think Katie Zacharia is a joke, isn't it worse to vote for people you literally have never heard of, far less checked their ability to, oh I don’t know, run a country?
KiwiSaver is a lifeline for first home buyers. It facilitates a dream for most of us to own our own piece of New Zealand.
Opportunity don’t want that for you. They will ban it. What's that tell you about their ideology?
I don’t mind who you vote for. But what I want for all of us is to vote with intelligence and hopefully some insight that came out of us researching what we are voting for.
How much of what Opportunity are, you wouldn’t have a clue about, and therefore if it works out for them, we end up with a mass dose of buyer's regret.
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
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It's the same for most people who vote for the Greens, TPM and even Labour. It's because they identify with the candidates, especially women and young people. A lot of Jacinda's support came from simply the fact she was comparably young, female and had a baby in office. Then there's the fact all their friends vote for those parties and they don't want to appear like a stodgy old conservative. A variation is the lifelong Labour supporter because "my grandfather was a coal miner/wharfie/built the main trunk line". Thete is also the msm who they rely on for information. But none has a clue about those parties' policies apart from a strongly held perception that a left wing government will give them more money.
I tried telling my elderly mother, who is a lifelong Labour supporter, about He Puapua. "They'd never do that" she said. She likes to think Labour is still what it used to be back in the days of Walter Nash and Nordmeyer.
Mike, you're absolutely on the money. Th big attraction for the swing voters in opting for "someone new", is that they don't have to expend any mental energy in actually comparing candidates or policies. It's universal suffrage that is the root cause of our mediocrity in government, nothing more.
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